{"product_id":"visual-complex-analysis-25th-anniversary-edition-9780192868916","title":"Visual Complex Analysis: 25th Anniversary Edition","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book brings this majestic and powerful subject to life by consistently using \u003cem\u003egeometry\u003c\/em\u003e (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, \u003cem\u003e visual\u003c\/em\u003e access to the underlying mathematical reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This new \u003cem\u003e25th Anniversary Edition\u003c\/em\u003e introduces 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!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTristan Needham, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Mathematics, University of San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTristan Needham (son of the distinguished social anthropologist Rodney Needham) grew up in Oxford, England. He studied physics at Merton College, Oxford, before moving to the Mathematical Institute, where he enjoyed the great privilege of studying black holes under the supervision of Sir Roger Penrose. Tristan received his DPhil in 1987 and joined the faculty of the University of San Francisco in 1989. His continuing mission is to seek out new intuitive forms of understanding, and new visualizations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50867590758674,"sku":"9780192868916","price":182.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_070fb454-b86b-4035-91b7-9649f794c887.jpg?v=1737699038","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/visual-complex-analysis-25th-anniversary-edition-9780192868916","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}