Abstract
THE second edition of this useful book will be warmly welcomed. The theory of functions of a complex variable plays an increasingly important part in the applications of mathematics to physical problems. The student who desires to make these applications without delving too deeply into abstract theory will find here just the material which he requires, clearly set out and with sufficient rigour for his needs. Bearing in mind the difficulties of the beginner, Prof. MacRobert has tempered the arithmetical approach to the subject with a wise admixture of geometrical intuition, and has thereby succeeded in producing a book which may be easily consulted on any particular point such as contour integration, special functions, or the linear differential equation of the second order. The new edition differs mainly from its predecessor in the addition of appendixes on the hypergeometric function, Legendre functions and Fourier integrals.
Functions of a Complex Variable.
Prof.
Thomas M.
MacRobert
By. Second edition. Pp. xv + 347. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 14s. net.
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Functions of a Complex Variable . Nature 133, 817 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133817b0
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