Visual Complex Analysis: 25th Anniversary Edition by Tristan Needham

FROM THE AUTHOR: The new Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose is only available through the "Read Sample" attached to the Kindle edition; for some reason, it is not included in the free sample for the paperback. All legitimate copies of VCA produced by Oxford University Press are crisply printed on high-quality paper. If you obtain a shoddily printed copy, it's a fake: please return it and purchase a genuine OUP copy. **************************************************************************************************** The fundamental advance in the new 25th Anniversary Edition is that the original 501 diagrams now include brand-new captions that fully explain the geometrical reasoning, making it possible to read the work in an entirely new way―as a highbrow comic book! The 25th Anniversary Edition also features a new Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, as well as a new Preface by the author. Complex Analysis is the powerful fusion of the complex numbers (involving the 'imaginary' square root of -1) with ordinary calculus, resulting in a tool that has been of central importance to science for more than 200 years. This book brings this majestic and powerful subject to life by consistently using Read more