Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable

by Andrew Russell Forsyth

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Genres: Textbooks, Mathematics

702 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Prof Andrew Russell Forsyt was a British mathematician. He was professor at the Imperial College of Science from 1913 until he retired in 1923.

Reviews

[Tomasz Stachowiak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although it is quite an old book, the (semi)archaic language and exposition is precisely what makes it so great -- like with Halmos's "Naive Set Theory" or Whittaker's Analysis.

The fundamentals of complex analysis that one has to learn are obviously there (haven't changed in a century...), and they are treated in depth and style. It is precisely the archaic approach and narration that makes even the hardest concept easy to grasp. You can read the book, and understand it without going back several times or deciphering bloated notation and dry syntax of modern textbooks. There are figures, examples, initial motivation for what is being discussed, and just-right gradual increase of difficulty.

The slight inconvenience is that the results are not stated in modern notation/language, but that really is negligible given all the other benefits. Given the difficulty of the subject matter, the book does an excellent job.