Synopses & Reviews
The book provides a complete presentation of complex analysis, starting with the theory of Riemann surfaces, including uniformization theory and a detailed treatment of the theory of compact Riemann surfaces, the Riemann-Roch theorem, Abel's theorem and Jacobi's inversion theorem. This motivates a short introduction into the theory of several complex variables, followed by the theory of Abelian functions up to the theta theorem. The last part of the book provides an introduction into the theory of higher modular functions.
Review
From the reviews: "The book under review is the second volume of the textbook Complex analysis, consisting of 8 chapters. It provides an approach to the theory of Riemann surfaces from complex analysis. ... The book is self-contained and, moreover, some notions which might be unfamiliar for the reader are explained in appendices of chapters. ... this book is an excellent textbook on Riemann surfaces, especially for graduate students who have taken the first course of complex analysis." (Hiroshige Shiga, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 f)
Synopsis
The idea of this book is to give an extensive description of the classical complex analysis, here classical means roughly that sheaf theoretical and cohomological methods are omitted.
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Synopsis
This extensive description of classical complex analysis omits sheaf theoretical and cohomological methods to focus on the full quota of essential concepts related to the topic. Lots of exercises and figures make it an ideal introduction to the subject.
Synopsis
The book contains a complete self-contained introduction to highlights of classical complex analysis. New proofs and some new results are included. All needed notions are developed within the book: with the exception of some basic facts which can be found in the ¯rst volume. There is no comparable treatment in the literature.
About the Author
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Freitag, Universität Heidelberg, Mathematisches Institut
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Riemann Surfaces.- Chapter II. Harmonic Functions on Riemann Surfaces.- Chapter III. Uniformization.- Chapter IV. Compact Riemann Surfaces.- Appendices to Chapter IV.- Chapter V. Analytic Functions of Several Complex Variables.- Chapter V. Analytic Functions of Several Complex Variable.- Chapter VI. Abelian Functions.- Chapter VII. Modular Forms of Several Variables.- Chapter VIII. Appendix: Algebraic Tools.- References.- Index.