Complex Analysis (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 103)

About this book

The present book is meant as a text for a course on complex analysis at the advanced undergraduate level or first-year graduate level. The first half more or less can be used for a one-semester course addressed to undergraduates. The second half can be used for a second semester at either level. Somewhat more material has been included than can be covered at leisure in one or two terms to give opportunities for the instructor to exercise individual taste and to lead the course in whatever directions strikes the instructors fancy at the time as well as extra read ing material for students on their own. A large number of routine exer cises are included for the more standard portions and a few harder exercises of striking theoretical interest are also included but may be omitted in courses addressed to less advanced students. In some sense I think the classical German prewar texts were the best (Hurwitz-Courant Knopp Bieberbach etc. ) and I would recommend to anyone to look through them. More recent texts have emphasized connections with real analysis which is important but at the cost of exhibiting succinctly and clearly what is peculiar about complex analysis: the power series expansion the uniqueness of analytic continuation and the calculus of residues.