Title: $143?!?!
Product review: This is a classic complex analysis text, a pleasure to read and covering all the usual topics. The prerequisites are modest; ideally, one will be familiar with the material in Rudin's "Princples of Mathematical Analysis," but a good, mathematically oriented calculus course (Spivak's "Calculus" is beautiful) is quite sufficient.That said, the price tag is ridiculous. It was bad enough at $90 (judging by previous reviewers, that was back in the ancient days of 2001). The last edition of this book is dated 1979. It's used in graduate courses all around the world. That means that used copies are not hard to come by.For $143, one can buy a used copy of Ahlfors, and *new* copies of Conway's and Needham's complex analysis books, and still have pocket change left. That's the course I would recommend.
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