Invitation to Complex Analysis (The Random House/Birkhauser Mathematics Series)

By Harold P. Boas and Ralph Philip Boas Jr.

Book Overview

Ideal for a first course in complex analysis, this book can be used either as a classroom text or for independent study. Written at a level accessible to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the book is suitable for readers acquainted with advanced calculus or introductory real analysis. The treatment goes beyond the standard material of power series, Cauchy's theorem, residues, conformal mapping, and harmonic functions by including accessible discussions of intriguing topics that are uncommon in a book at this level. The flexibility afforded by the supplementary topics and applications makes the book adaptable either to a short, one-term course or to a comprehensive, full-year course. Detailed solutions of the exercises both serve as models for students and facilitate independent study. Supplementary exercises, not solved in the book, provide an additional teaching tool. This second edition has been painstakingly revised by the author's son, himself an award-winning mathematical expositor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883857642
• ISBN13: 9780883857649
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.