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  title info:
    title: Bicomplex Holomorphic Functions
    sub title: The Algebra, Geometry and Analysis of Bicomplex Numbers
  name:
    name part: Luna-Elizarrarás, M. Elena.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Shapiro, Michael.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Struppa, Daniele C.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Vajiac, Adrian.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 1st ed. 2015.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 231 p. 23 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The purpose of this book is to develop the foundations of the theory of holomorphicity on the ring of bicomplex numbers. Accordingly, the main focus is on expressing the similarities with, and differences from, the classical theory of one complex variable. The result is an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to the algebra, geometry and analysis of bicomplex numbers. Around the middle of the nineteenth century, several mathematicians (the best known being Sir William Hamilton and Arthur Cayley) became interested in studying number systems that extended the field of complex numbers. Hamilton famously introduced the quaternions, a skew field in real-dimension four, while almost simultaneously James Cockle introduced a commutative four-dimensional real algebra, which was rediscovered in 1892 by Corrado Segre, who referred to his elements as bicomplex numbers. The advantages of commutativity were accompanied by the introduction of zero divisors, something that for a while dampened interest in this subject. In recent years, due largely to the work of G.B. Price, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of these numbers and, more importantly, in the study of functions defined on the ring of bicomplex numbers, which mimic the behavior of holomorphic functions of a complex variable. While the algebra of bicomplex numbers is a four-dimensional real algebra, it is useful to think of it as a “complexification” of the field of complex numbers; from this perspective, the bicomplex algebra possesses the properties of a one-dimensional theory inside four real dimensions. Its rich analysis and innovative geometry provide new ideas and potential applications in relativity and quantum mechanics alike. The book will appeal to researchers in the fields of complex, hypercomplex and functional analysis, as well as undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in one- or multidimensional complex analysis.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1.The Bicomplex Numbers -- 2.Algebraic Structures of the Set of Bicomplex Numbers -- 3.Geometry and Trigonometric Representations of Bicomplex -- 4.Lines and curves in BC -- 5.Limits and Continuity -- 6.Elementary Bicomplex Functions -- 7.Bicomplex Derivability and Differentiability -- 8.Some properties of bicomplex holomorphic functions -- 9.Second order complex and hyperbolic differential operators -- 10.Sequences and series of bicomplex functions -- 11.Integral formulas and theorems -- Bibliography.
  note: by M. Elena Luna-Elizarrarás, Michael Shapiro, Daniele C. Struppa, Adrian Vajiac.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Functions of complex variables
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Functions of a Complex Variable
  subject:
    topic: Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
  classification: QA331-355
  classification: 515.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Frontiers in Mathematics
  identifier: 9783319248684
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24868-4
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    record creation date: 151211
    record change date: 20160318030448.0
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