Visual Complex Analysis

Needham, Tristan; Tristan Needham, Department of Mathematics, University of San Francisco

ISBN 10: 0198534469 / ISBN 13: 9780198534464

Published by Clarendon Press/Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, UK, New York, et al., 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Complex Analysis
• Publisher: Clarendon Press/Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, UK, New York, et al.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198534469
• ISBN 13: 9780198534464
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Published in Paperback: 1998
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

FROM THE AUTHOR: 

Please do NOT buy this original 1997 edition!  I have created a new, greatly improved (and cheaper!) edition, which was published on February 28th, 2023:

Visual Complex Analysis: 25th Anniversary Edition (with a new Foreword by Roger Penrose)

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This radical first course on complex analysis brings a beautiful and powerful subject to life by consistently using geometry (not calculation) as the means of explanation. Aimed at undergraduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering, the book's intuitive explanations, lack of advanced prerequisites, and consciously user-friendly prose style will help students to master the subject more readily than was previously possible. The key to this is the book's use of new geometric arguments in place of the standard calculational ones. These geometric arguments are communicated with the aid of hundreds of diagrams of a standard seldom encountered in mathematical works. A new approach to a classical topic, this work will be of interest to students in mathematics, physics, and engineering, as well as to professionals in these fields.

About the Author

Tristan Needham is Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco. For part of the work in this book, he was presented with the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award by the Mathematical Association of America.