In the three decades since the introduction of the Kobayashi distance, the subject of hyperbolic complex spaces and holomorphic mappings has grown to be a big industry. This book gives a comprehensive and systematic account on the Carathéodory and Kobayashi distances, hyperbolic complex spaces and holomorphic mappings with geometric methods. A very complete list of references should be useful for prospective researchers in this area.

The author is an undisputed leader in his field, and the author of several other successful books

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Professor Shoshichi Kobayashi was a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He passed away on August 29 in 2012. He was a student of Professor Kentaro Yano at the University of Tokyo. He was one of famous differential geometers not only in Japan but also in the world. He wrote 15 books both in Japanese and in English.

Inhalt

1. Distance Geometry.- 2. Schwarz Lemma and Negative Curvature.- 3. Intrinsic Distances.- 4. Intrinsic Distances for Domains.- 5. Holomorphic Maps into Hyperbolic Spaces.- 6. Extension and Finiteness Theorems.- 7. Manifolds of General Type.- 8. Value Distributions.- References.