Explore the rich world of complex functions and their geometric surfaces.
This nonfiction guide surveys automorphic and pseudo-automorphic functions, their behavior on Riemann surfaces, and how these ideas connect to differential equations. It offers a clear path through topics like surface connectivity, branch points, and the use of cross-cuts to understand multi-sheeted structures, all rooted in classical function theory.
What you’ll experience
- Foundations of automorphic functions and their relations on a group of substitutions.
- Ideas about Riemann surfaces, their connectivity, and how surfaces can be resolved into simply connected pieces.
- Does and doesn’t of uniform functions, branch-points, and Schwarzian derivatives in context.
- Examples from homoperiodic, triangular, and modular-function families to illustrate concepts.
Ideal for readers of advanced mathematics, the history of function theory, and those curious about how geometry and analysis meet in complex variables.