Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint (Carus Mathematical Monographs, Series Number 23)

In this second edition of a Carus Monograph Classic, Steven G. Krantz, a leading worker in complex analysis and a winner of the Chauvenet Prize for outstanding mathematical exposition, develops material on classical non-Euclidean geometry. He shows how it can be developed in a natural way from the invariant geometry of the complex disk. He also introduces the Bergmann kernel and metric and provides profound applications, some of which have never appeared in print before. In general, the new edition represents a considerable polishing and re-thinking of the original successful volume. A minimum of geometric formalism is used to gain a maximum of geometric and analytic insight. The climax of the book is an introduction to several complex variables from the geometric viewpoint. Poincaré's theorem, that the ball and bidisc are biholomorphically inequivalent, is discussed and proved.

Steven G. Krantz, currently Professor and Chairman of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, earned hid PhD at Princeton University and has taught at UCLA, Princeton University and Pennsylvania State University. He is the recipient of the UCLA Alumni Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award, the MAA’s Chauvenet Prize, the MAA Beckenbach Book Award, and the Outstanding Academic Book Award of the Current Review of Academic Libraries. He has written numerous books including: "Function Theory of Several Complex Variables," "Real Analysis and Foundations, The Geometry of Domains in Space" (with Harold R. Parks)," Function Theory of One Complex Variable" (with Robert E. Greene), "The Implicit Function Theorem "(with Harold Parks and "A Panorama of Harmonic Analysis" and "Mathematical Apocrypha" (for the MAA). He is also the author of over one-hundred research articles.