{"product_id":"visual-complex-analysis-25th-anniversary-edition","title":"Visual Complex Analysis: 25th Anniversary Edition","description":"FROM THE AUTHOR:\n\nThe 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.\n\nAll 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.\n\n****************************************************************************************************\nThe 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!\n\nThe 25th Anniversary Edition also features a new Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, as well as a new Preface by the author.\n\nComplex 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.\n\nThis book brings this majestic and powerful subject to life by consistently using geometry (not calculation) as the means of explanation. The 501 diagrams of the original edition embodied geometrical arguments that (for the first time) replaced the long and often opaque computations of the standard approach, in force for the previous 200 years, providing direct, intuitive, visual access to the underlying mathematical reality.\n\nREVIEWS FROM THE BACK COVER:\n\n\"I was delighted when I came across Visual Complex Analysis. As soon as I thumbed through it, I realized that this was the book I was looking for ten years ago.\"\nEd Catmull, former president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios\n\n\"Visual Complex Analysis is a delight, and a book after my own heart. By his innovative and exclusive use of the geometrical perspective, Tristan Needham uncovers many surprising and largely unappreciated aspects of the beauty of complex analysis.\"\nSir Roger Penrose\n\n\"If your budget limits you to only buying one mathematics book in a year then make sure that this is the one that you buy.\"\nMathematical Gazette\n\n\". . . it is comparable with Feynman's Lectures on Physics. At every point it asks \"why\" and finds a beautiful visual answer.\"\nNewsletter of the European Mathematical Society\n\n\". . . an engaging, broad, thorough, and often deep, development of undergraduate complex analysis and related areas from a geometric point of view. The style is lucid, informal, reader-friendly, and rich with helpful images (e.g., the complex derivative as an \"amplitwist\"). A truly unusual and notably creative look at a classical subject. \"\nPaul Zorn, American Mathematical Monthly\n\n\"Newton would have approved . . . a fascinating and refreshing look at a familiar subject . . . essential reading for anybody with any interest at all in this absorbing area of mathematics. \"\nTimes Higher Education Supplement\n\n\"It is . . . a special pleasure to see Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis with its elegantly illustrated visual approach.\"\nIan Stewart, New Scientist\n\n\"The new ideas and exercises bring together a body of information potentially invaluable to researchers in fields from topology to number theory . . . this is only the beginning of a long list of famous facts for which Needham offers attractive visual proofs . . . Cauchy's theorem is a satisfying example: you can see the contribution to the integral from each infinitesimal square vanish before your eyes.\"\nFrank Farris, American Mathematical Monthly\n\n\"The arguments constructed are highly innovative; even veterans of the field will find new ideas here. . . .This is a special book. Tristan Needham has not only completely rethought a classical field of mathematics but has presented it in a clear and compelling way. Visual Complex Analysis is worthy of the accolades it has received.\"\nMAA Reviews\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0192868926\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0192868926.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Needham, Tristan|Penrose, Roger\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. 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