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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 515.9 EAN: 9780486406794 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0486406792 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: February 16, 1999 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Related Items:
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 Rating: - Inexpensive Intro to Complex VariablesDover publications are inexpensive excellent-quality textbook-like items for self-study or review, and this item is no exception. I am using this book to learn complex variables for the first time. Examples are clear, with enough "missing" steps to challenge the student without confusion. The chapter on Analytic and Harmonic functions and their applications is particularly good. There are certainly more costly books, but this one packs in a lot of information for the money. Rating:  - an excellent beginningFisher's book is ideal for a first course in complex variables: the complex plane, geometry of the plane, analytic functions (zeros, singularities, residue computations), Cauchy-and residue theorems, harmonic functions, conformal mappings, boundary value problems, applications, and a lovely last chapter on transform theory, Fourier, Laplace etc, and using contour integration. Pedagogical features: The figures and illustrations are lovely! The exercises are many and well designed. ... Read More Rating:  - mediocreThis book contains a wealth of information, and at this price, one really shouldn't complain, but if you're looking to really understand complex analysis as a mathematical subject, keep looking. My main problem with the book is that while it states plenty of facts on the subject, the explanations for them (i.e. proofs, examples, counterexamples) are unclear, incomplete, or absent. There's enough "theorem"... "proof" talk to scare off those unaccustomed to it, but the information contained therein ... Read More Rating: - Excellent excercises, poor explainationsI used this book for a complex variable course as part of my engineering study. I found this book very insufficient to explain things well as a beginner in the subject. There were often problems I could not understand because the book only offered a couple line explaination and no example. In fact almost all the class thought the book was terrible and didn't even read it. Now my school Rochester Institute of Technology has returned to its previous book. If you are well versed in math and want to explore ... Read More Rating: - Great textIt is wonderful to see this great book on undergraduate complex analysis back in print at even a more affordable price. I've used it in in one of my junior level courses and been totally satisfied with it. I will use a part of it again in a continuation course. What is nice about this book is that it is a textbook, and not a cookbook nor a book that tries to include everything and fails at all of them. This book never lists too many results; instead it aims at the understanding of the subject ... Read More 
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