Fundamentals of Complex Analysis with Applications to Engineering and Science (Classic Version) (Pearson Modern Classics for Advanced Mathematics Series)

I found out about this book from the OCW MIT course on complex analysis, and I must say it was a great find. The book I used to learn complex analysis is "Complex Variables with Applications" by Wunsch, which I also believe to be a good book, however this book by Edward Saff is much easier to understand. The writting style is very clear, and the material is carefully selected for engineering students.The book may fall a little short with the amount and depth of the topics, so math students who require lots of rigorous proofs may want to look somewhere else, however if you are an engineering or physics student the topics at hand will be perfectly covered at an introductory level.The only real complain about the book would be the physical book itself, as with most Pearson books, this book has one of the worst bindings I've ever seen, just like Griffith's book "Introduction to Electrodynamics" (Also from Pearson editorial), the pages basically separate or unglue from the spine the second you open up the book, I had to use epoxy glue to keep the pages from falling off!!!! This seems to be a recurring problem with Pearson books, and somehow it seems Pearson doesnt care and year after year they continue to provide cheap binding on expensive hardcover books, thats really an unethical business scheme, one would only expect such low quality binding from cheap international edition books, yet it seems that in this case the international edition books have better manufacturing than the hardcover US editions for just a fraction of the price!My advice: Get the international edition of this book, if Pearson really wants us to pay the full price for their books, they should provide us with something worthy, not this, I wont be buying any hardcover Pearson textbook until they fix this issue.

The is the best introduction to complex analysis that I have seen. It is very clear with detailed explanations, and many exercises.

Saff and Snider really did an amazing job explaining complex analysis in good amount of depth for an undergraduate senior or junior.

This book is very well written. It is one of the best textbooks for undergraduate complex analysis, appropriate for third year math majors, or mathematically experienced engineering or physics majors, who have some experience with proofs and epsilon-delta arguments prior to taking this course. It approaches the subject from a very traditional point of view. It is now several decades old and is beginning to feel a little bit dated. Most of the book is quite nice, but the graphics need to be updated, and the chapters on transformations of applied mathematics need to be rewritten. I like the book enough to use it again this year to teach the undergraduate complex analysis course at my university, although I am keeping my eye out for a more modern book that is as well written.

This book is geared at an undergraduate audience and written at roughly the same level as a first course in real analysis, though with emphasis on computational problems and applications similar to a typical calculus class.That being said, this book is even quite useful at the graduate level. This book alone will get you at least halfway towards passing your qualifying exam in complex analysis. It has probably the best selection of problems out there for doing contour integrals via the residue theorem (it devotes a whole chapter to various integration strategies!). Ditto for conformal mappings--it devotes a whole appendix to a catolog of common conformal maps--and Laurent series. There is also solid though not deep treatment of the basics of the theory (Cauchy integral formula, Liouville theorem, Poisson integral formula, maximum modulus principle, etc.).Overall, this book is very well written and well organized. For the record, Saff is a very prolific and respected research mathematician.

There are better complex analysis books out there

this book is a great supplement to any of the Complex analysis Books. It is written for the student to learn from and not for the author to impress his colleagues as most other books are. The language is clear and concise, and the multitude of problems help to reinforce the material

This book is everything that i'd hoped for and more. I received it in timely manner and it's every bit as enlightening and challenging as i'd imagined it would be. It's also in great condition, considering, and a great guide for problem solving.