Accessible to students at their early stages of mathematical study, this full first year course in complex analysis offers new and interesting motivations for classical results and introduces related topics stressing motivation and technique. Numerous illustrations, examples, and now 300 exercises, enrich the text. Students who master this textbook will emerge with an excellent grounding in complex analysis, and a solid understanding of its wide applicability.

This unusually lively textbook on complex variables introduces the theory of analytic functions, explores its diverse applications and shows the reader how to harness its powerful techniques.

The solution of the cubic equation and Newton's method for approximating the zeroes of any polynomial Expanded treatments of the Schwarz reflection principle and of the mapping properties of analytic functions on closed domains An introduction to SchwarzChristoffel transformations and to Dirichlet series A streamlined proof of the prime number theorem, and more Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Dr. Joseph Bak is the Assistant Chair of the Mathematics department at The City College of New York. Joseph Bak's primary area of research is approximation theory. Dr. Donald J. Newman (July 27, 1930 - March 28, 2007) was a champion problem solver. His mathematical specialties included complex analysis, approximation theory and number theory. His career included posts as a Professor of Mathematics at MIT, Brown University, Yeshiva University, Temple University and a distinguished chair at Bar Ilan University in Israel. His publications include 150 papers and five books.

Inhalt
The Complex Numbers.- Functions of the Complex Variable z.- Analytic Functions.- Line Integrals and Entire Functions.- Properties of Entire Functions.- Properties of Analytic Functions.- Further Properties of Analytic Functions.- Simply Connected Domains.- Isolated Singularities of an Analytic Function.- The Residue Theorem.- Applications of the Residue Theorem to the Evaluation of Integrals and Sums.- Further Contour Integral Techniques.- to Conformal Mapping.- The Riemann Mapping Theorem.- Maximum-Modulus Theorems for Unbounded Domains.- Harmonic Functions.- Different Forms of Analytic Functions.- Analytic Continuation; The Gamma and Zeta Functions.- Applications to Other Areas of Mathematics.