Graduate-level text offers full and extensive treatments of existence theorems, representation of solutions by series, representation by integrals, theory of majorants, dominants and minorants, questions of growth, much more. Relevant review material on complex analysis supplied. Includes 675 exercises at chapter ends. Bibliography.
For students not conversant with the required complex analysis, review material has been supplied throughout the text. In addition, each chapter has a list of references to the literature, and there is a bibliography at the end of the book. The exercises at the ends of sections compromise some 675 items.