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From the reviews:„This is a fairly conventional text for a first course in complex analysis. It is an interesting mix of the concrete and the abstract, and of the formulaic and the geometric. It has good exercises … . It is nominally a graduate text (it is in Springer’s series of Graduate Texts in Mathematics) … . The book covers all the usual topics for a first course and includes a lot of advanced topics … .“ (Allen Stenger, MathDL, February, 2008)„This book is based on the original courses of Complex Analysis that was delivered by the well-known American specialist and lecturer in Analysis, Professor Lipman Bers. … the book is written in a clear and easily readable manner. … this book is useful for all specialists and lecturers in Complex Analysis … and also all specialists who deal with applications of Complex Analysis. I also recommend this book to beginners who want to study Complex Analysis … .“ (Peter Zabreiko, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1139 (17), 2008)“An introduction to complex analysis based on original lectures by Lipman Bers … . the whole text is clearly suitable as a first course in complex analysis. … In addition, it contains many exercises and a brief guide to the literature.” (G. Teschl, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 156 (4), April, 2009)
This bookpresents fundamental material that should be part of the education of every practicing mathematician. This material will also be of interest to computer scientists, physicists, and engineers. Complex analysis is also known as function theory. In this text we address the theory of complex-valued functions of a single complex variable. This is a prerequisite for the study of many current and rapidlydevelopingareasofmathematics, includingthetheoryofseveral andin? nitely many complex variables, thetheoryofgroups, hyperbolic geometry and three-manifolds, and number theory. Complex analysis has connections and applications to many other many other subjects in mathematics, and also to other sciences as an area where the classic and the modern techniques meet and bene? t from each other. We will try to illustrate this in the applications we give. Because function theory has been used by generations of practicing mathematicians working in a number of di? erent ? elds, the basic - sults have been developed and redeveloped from a number of di? erent perspectives. We are not wedded to any one viewpoint. Rather we will try to exploit the richness of the subject and explain and interpret standard de? nitions and results using the most convenient tools from analysis, geometry, and algebra.
