Tristan Needham

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Tristan Needham is the author of the highly original^[1] book Visual Complex Analysis in which he uses a geometric approach to develop complex analysis (which he says was inspired by Isaac Newton's original geometric approach to ordinary calculus). He was a student of Roger Penrose and is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of San Francisco.

[edit] Bibliography

• Needham, Tristan. Visual Complex Analysis. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 0-19-853447-7.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Frank A. Farris, American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 105, no. 6, p. 570: "Visual complex analysis will show you the field of complex analysis in a way you almost certainly have not seen it before". D. H. Armitage, Mathematical Reviews, 98g:30001: "[Needham] has produced a radically new text".