1/02/2012

Complex Analysis (Universitext) Review

Complex Analysis (Universitext)
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This book was originally written in German, and the German version is just incredible: a real gem. Good reason to translate it! Unfortunately, this is one of the worst translations from German I have seen. Some of it is just awkward grammar, which the reader may be able to ignore. But, there are also some words and phrases which are translated incorrectly.
For example "Paragraphen" in German does not mean paragraph in English, it means section. But in this book it is translated as paragraph. Try looking for something at the end of a paragraph or in the previous paragraph, when you should actually be looking at the end of the section or in the previous section. An example of this can be found in the explanation of the addition theorem for complex exponents (p. 27). The English text claims there is a remark concerning this at the end of the "paragraph." The paragraph ends and there is no remark. Turn to the end of the section (p. 31) and you will find the remark just above the exercises.
My advice is, if you can read German, get the German version! If you can't read German, you can still get the English version, but you will have to be very patient with the mistakes incurred in the translation (not to be found in the German original). If you own this book, you should systematically go through it and replace "paragraph" everywhere with "section." Most of the other translation mistakes can be figured out by context.

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