Basic Complex Analysis

A Comprehensive Course in Analysis #2a

by Barry Simon

In the second half of 2015, the American Math Society will publish a five volume (total about 3000 pages) set of books that is a graduate analysis text with lots of additional bonus material. Included are hundreds of problems and copious notes which extend the text and provide historical background. Efforts have been made to find simple and elegant proofs and to keeping the writing style clear.


Cauchy Integral Theorem, Consequences of the Cauchy Integral Theorem (including holomorphic iff analytic, Local Behavior, Phragmén-Lindelöf, Reflection Principle, Calculation of Integrals), Montel, Vitali and Hurwitz’s Theorems, Fractional Linear Transformations, Conformal Maps, Zeros and Product Formulae, Elliptic Functions, Global Analytic Functions, Picard’s Theorem.

Selected topics include Goursat Argument, Ultimate and Ultra Cauchy Integral Formulas, Runge’s Theorem, complex interpolation, Marty’s Theorem, continued fraction analysis of real numbers, Riemann mapping theorem, Uniformization theorem (modulo results from Part 3), Mittag Leffler and Weirstrass product theorems, finite order and Hadamard product formula, Gamma function, Euler-Maclaurin Series and Stirling’s formula to all orders, Jensen’s formula and Blaschke products, Weierstrass and Jacobi elliptic functions, Jacobi theta functions, Paley-Wiener theorems, Hartog’s phenomenon, Poincaré’s theorem that in higher complex dimensions, the ball and polydisk are not conformally equivalent.

641 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 2015

About the author

Barry Simon is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Emeritus) at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (particularly Schrödinger operators), including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 300 publications on mathematics and physics.

More particularly, his work has focused on broad areas of mathematical physics and analysis covering: quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, Brownian motion, random matrix theory, general nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (including N-body systems and resonances), nonrelativistic quantum mechanics in electric and magnetic fields, the semi-classical limit, the singular continuous spectrum, random and ergodic Schrödinger operators, orthogonal polynomials, and non-selfadjoint spectral theory.

Dr. Simon is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012), a winner of the Henri Poincaré Prize (2012), a winner of the János Bolyai International Mathematical Prize (2015), a winner of the 2016 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and a winner of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2018).