Title: pedgogically worthless
Product review: I'm not sure why the other reviews are so positive. The book is very thorough and rigorous I'm sure, but the explanations are terrible. Everyone I've talked to in my class agrees that it's extremely difficult to learn from if you don't already know complex analysis, bbecause the definitions and order of treatment are very unintuitive. Example: residue at a is defined as the number R that makes f-R/(z-a) the derivative of a single-valued analytic function in 0<|z-a|<delta; why didn't he even mention that it's the coefficient of 1/(z-a) in the Taylor expansion? And he didn't even give any examples of specific residues. I ended up using a mathematical methods for physics book; it was the only way I could develop any kind of intuition for the subject.
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