Advanced Complex Analysis

A Comprehensive Course in Analysis #2b

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.


Conformal metric methods, topics in analytic number theory, Fuchsian ODEs and associated special functions, asymptotic methods, univalent functions, Nevanlinna theory.

Selected topics include Poincaré metric, Ahlfors-Robinson proof of Picard’s theorem, Bergmann kernel, Painlevé’s conformal mapping theorem, Jacobi 2- and 4-squares theorems, Dirichlet series, Dirichlet’s prime progression theorem, zeta function, prime number theorem, hypergeometric, Bessel and Airy functions, Hankel and Sommerfeld contours, Laplace’s method, stationary phase, steepest descent, WKB, Koebe function, Loewner evolution and introduction to SLE, Nevanlinna’s First and Second Main theorems.

321 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).