Le theoreme de Picard-Borel et la theorie des fonctions meromorphes
Le theoreme de Picard-Borel et la theorie des fonctions meromorphes
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10.2307/3605435
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发表时间:
1930-01
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通讯作者:
E. C. Titchmarsh;R. Nevanlinna
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作者:
E. C. Titchmarsh;R. Nevanlinna
references to the examples which (excellent in themselves) are freely scattered through the book as exercises for the reader. There is also a tendency to dismiss as " obvious " or " easy to prove " theorems which do not seem to merit these descriptions. A proof of the theorem stated at the bottom of p . 159 (Vol. I), for example, would have been welcomed by the reviewer. Again the theorem tha t the circle of convergence of a power series has on its circumference a t least one singularity of the function defined by the series should scarcely have been dismissed in two lines as " obvious " (p. 458). I t must not be inferred from the fact that we have chosen one or two points for criticism tha t our att i tude to the book as a whole is unfavourable. This is far from being the case. The very real merits of the book are sufficiently well known to readers of previous editions, and there is no need to give a detailed account of them here. We may, however, mention one or two points. The treatment of zeros and poles by means of " Taylor's theorem with remainder " is to be commended, since it does not involve an unnecessary limiting process whose effect has subsequently to be cancelled by an appeal to the properties of power series. The proofs of the theorems on regularity of functions defined by limits (in particular by definite integrals) are rendered particularly simple by the use of the " converse of Cauchy's theorem." The general theory is freely illustrated by instructive examples, some incorporated in the text and some set as exercises for the reader. Finally, the book commends itself not only as a systematic account of the general properties of analytic functions, but also as a valuable source of information on a variety of special topics of which a satisfactory account is not easy to find elsewhere. A. E. I .