本书提供给读者一个对复分析的深刻理解以及这门学科是如何融入数学的。 该书是从伊利诺伊大学香槟分校的校园荣誉计划中的讲座发展起来的。这些课程的目标是让学生体会到当以复分析的观点对待许多数学和物理问题时,问题便被神奇地简化了。此书从初等的水平出发,但也包含了高级的材料。
Preface
Chapter 1.From the Real Numbers to the Complex Numbers
1.Introduction
2.Number systems
3.Inequalities and ordered fields
4.The complex numbers
5.Alternative definitions of C
6.A glimpse at metric spaces
Chapter 2.Complex Numbers
1.Complex conjugation
2.Existence of square roots
3.Limits
4.Convergent infinite series
5.Uniform convergence and consequences
6.The unit circle and trigonometry
7.The geometry of addition and multiplication
8.Logarithms
Chapter 3.Complex Numbers and Geometry
1.Lines, circles, and balls
2.Analytic geometry
3.Quadratic polynomials
4.Linear fractional transformations
5.The Riemann sphere
Chapter 4.Power Series Expansions
1.Geometric series
2.The radius of convergence
3.Generating functions
4.Fibonacci numbers
5.An application of power series
6.Rationality
Chapter 5.Complex Differentiation
1.Definitions of complex analytic function
2.Complex differentiation
3.The Cauchy-Riemann equations
4.Orthogonal trajectories and harmonic functions
5.A glimpse at harmonic functions
6.What is a differential form?
Chapter 6.Complex Integration
1.Complex-valued functions
2.Line integrals
3.Goursat's proof
4.The Cauchy integral formula
5.A return to the definition of complex analytic function
Chapter 7.Applications of Complex Integration
1.Singularities and residues
2.Evaluating real integrals using complex variables methods
3.Fourier transforms
4.The Gamma function
Chapter 8.Additional Topics
1.The minimum-maximum theorem
2.The fundamental theorem of algebra
3.Winding numbers, zeroes, and poles
4.Pythagorean triples
5.Elementary mappings
6.Quaternions
7.Higher-dimensional complex analysis
Fhrther reading
Bibliography
Index