At its core, this concise textbook presents standard material for a first course in complex analysis at the advanced undergraduate level. This distinctive text will prove most rewarding for students who have a genuine passion for mathematics as well as certain mathematical maturity. Primarily aimed at undergraduates with working knowledge of real analysis and metric spaces, this book can also be used to instruct a graduate course. The text uses a conversational style with topics purposefully apportioned into 21 lectures, providing a suitable format for either independent study or lecture-based teaching. Instructors are invited to rearrange the order of topics according to their own vision. A clear and rigorous exposition is supported by engaging examples and exercises unique to each lecture; a large number of exercises contain useful calculation problems. Hints are given for a selection of the more difficult exercises. This text furnishes the reader with a means of learning complexanalysis as well as a subtle introduction to careful mathematical reasoning. To guarantee a student's progression, more advanced topics are spread out over several lectures.

This text is based on a one-semester (12 week) undergraduate course in complex analysis that the author has taught at the Australian National University for over twenty years. Most of the principal facts are deduced from Cauchy's Independence of Homotopy Theorem allowing us to obtain a clean derivation of Cauchy's Integral Theorem and Cauchy's Integral Formula. Setting the tone for the entire book, the material begins with a proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to demonstrate the power of complex numbers and concludes with a proof of another major milestone, the Riemann Mapping Theorem, which is rarely part of a one-semester undergraduate course.

About the Author
Alexander Isaev is a professor of mathematics at the Australian National University. Professor Isaev's research interests include several complex variables, CR-geometry, singularity theory, and invariant theory. His extensive list of publications includes three additional Springer books: Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics (ISBN: 978-3-540-21973-6), Lectures on the Automorphism Groups of Kobayashi-Hyberbolic Manifolds (ISBN: 978-3-540-69151-8), and Spherical Tube Hypersurfaces (ISBN: 978-3-642-19782-6).

Reviews
"This text furnishes the reader with a means of learning complex analysis as well as a subtle introduction to careful mathematical reasoning. ...There is no doubt that graduate students and seasoned analysts alike will find a wealth of material in this project and appreciate its particular construction." (Vicentiu D. Radulescu, zbMATH 1386.30001, 2018)



Book Information
ISBN 9783319681696
Author Alexander Isaev
Format Paperback
Page Count 194
Imprint Springer International Publishing AG
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG