Synopses & Reviews
This book focuses on complex analytic dynamics, which dates from 1916 and is currently attracting considerable interest. The text provides a comprehensive, well-organized treatment of the foundations of the theory of iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. The coverage extends from early memoirs of Fatou and Julia to important recent results and methods of Sullivan and Shishikura. Many details of the proofs have not appeared in print before.
Review
A.F. Beardon Iteration of Rational Functions Complex Analytic Dynamical Systems "This book makes available a comprehensive, detailed, and organized treatment of the foundations of the theory of iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. The material covered extends from the original memoirs of Fatou and Julia to the recent and important results and methods of Sullivan and Shishikura. Many of the details of the proofs have not occurred in print before."--ZENTRALBLATT MATH
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A.F. Beardon
Iteration of Rational Functions
Complex Analytic Dynamical Systems
"This book makes available a comprehensive, detailed, and organized treatment of the foundations of the theory of iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. The material covered extends from the original memoirs of Fatou and Julia to the recent and important results and methods of Sullivan and Shishikura. Many of the details of the proofs have not occurred in print before."--ZENTRALBLATT MATH
Synopsis
This book makes available a comprehensive, detailed, and organized treatment of the foundations of the theory of iteration of rational functions of a complex variable. The material covered extends from the original memoirs of Fatou and Julia to the recent and important results and methods of Sullivan and Shishikura. Many of the details of the proofs have not occurred in print before. The theory of of dynamical systems and chaos has recently undergone a rapid growth in popularity, in part due to the spectacular computer graphics of Julia sets, fractals, and the Mandelbrot set. This text focuses on the specialized area of complex analytic dynamics, a subject that dates back to 1916 and is currently a very active area in mathematics.
Synopsis
This is a careful, modern presentatin of the foundations of dynamical systems and complex analysis, written with an emphasis on clarity, elegance, and detail. Many of the proofs have not occurred in print before. This text is intended for the graduate level.
Table of Contents
Examples.- Rational Maps.- The Fatou and Julia Sets.- Properties of the Julia Set.- The Structure of the Fatou Set.- Periodic Points.- Forward Invariant Components.- The No Wandering Domains Theorem.- Critical Points.- Hausdorff Dimension.- Examples.- References.