Functions of One Complex Variable

This book is intended as a textbook for a first course in the theory of functions of one complex variable for students who are mathematically mature enough to understand and execute E - I) arguments. The actual pre­ requisites for reading this book are quite minimal; not much more than a stiff cours...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conway, J.B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1973, 1973
Edition:1st ed. 1973
Series:Graduate Texts in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • §3. Mondromy Theorem
  • §4. Topological Spaces and Neighborhood Systems
  • §5. The Sheaf of Germs of Analytic Functions on an Open Set
  • §6. Analytic Manifolds
  • §7. Covering spaces
  • X. Harmonic Functions
  • §1. Basic Properties of harmonic functions
  • §2. Harmonic functions on a disk
  • §3. Subharmonic and superharmonic functions
  • §4. The Dirichlet Problem
  • §5. Green’s Functions
  • XI. Entire Functions
  • §1. Jensen’s Formula
  • §2. The genus and order of an entire function
  • §3. Hadamard Factorization Theorem
  • XII. The Range of an Analytic Function
  • §1. Bloch’s Theorem
  • §2. The Little Picard Theorem
  • §3. Schottky’s Theorem
  • §4. The Great Picard Theorem
  • Appendix: Calculus for Complex Valued Functions on an Interval
  • List of Symbols
  • §8. Goursat’s Theorem
  • V. Singularities
  • §1. Classification ofsingularities
  • §2. Residues
  • §3. The Argument Principle
  • VI. The Maximum Modules Theorem
  • §1. The Maximum Principle
  • §2. Schwarz’s Lemma
  • §3. Convex functions and Hadamard’s Three Circles Theorem
  • §4. Phragmen-Lindelöf Theorem
  • VII. Compactness and Convergence in the Space of Analytic Functions
  • §1. The space of continuous functions C(G,?)
  • §2. Spaces of analytic functions
  • §3. Spaces of meromorphic functions
  • §4. The Riemann Mapping Theorem
  • §5. Weierstrass Factorization Theorem
  • §6. Factorization of the sine function
  • §7. The gamma function
  • §8. The Riemann zeta function
  • VIII. Runge’s Theorem
  • §1. Runge’s Theorem
  • §2. Another version of Cauchy’s Theorem
  • §3. Simple connectedness
  • §4. Mittag-Leffler’s Theorem
  • IX. Analytic Continuation and Riemann Surfaces
  • §1. Schwarz Reflection Principle
  • §2. Analytic Continuation Along A Path
  • I. The Complex Number System
  • §1. The real numbers
  • §2. The field of complex numbers
  • §3. The complex plane
  • §4. Polar representation and roots of complex numbers
  • §5. Lines and half planes in the complex plane
  • §6. The extended plane and its spherical representation
  • II. Metric Spaces and the Topology of C
  • §1. Definition and examples of metric spaces
  • §2. Connectedness
  • §3. Sequences and completeness
  • §4. Compactness
  • §5. Continuity
  • §6. Uniform convergence
  • III. Elementary Properties and Examples of Analytic Functions
  • §1. Power series
  • §2. Analytic functions
  • §3. Analytic functions as mappings, Möbius transformations
  • IV. Complex Integration
  • §1. Riemann-Stieltjes integrals
  • §2. Power series representation of analytic functions
  • §3. Zeros of an analytic function
  • §4. Cauchy’s Theorem
  • §5. The index of a closed curve
  • §6. Cauchy’s Integral Formula
  • §7. Counting zeros; the Open Mapping Theorem