Introduction to Circle Packing: The Theory of Discrete Analytic Functions - Hardcover

Stephenson, Kenneth

 
9780521823562: Introduction to Circle Packing: The Theory of Discrete Analytic Functions

Synopsis

This book, first published in 2005, introduces a new mathematical topic known as 'circle packing', taking the reader from first definitions to late-breaking results.

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About the Author

Kenneth Stephenson is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he has established an active research program in complex function theory. He has had visiting positions at the University of Hawaii and Florida State University, and sabbatical appointments at the Open University and the University of Cambridge. Over the last fifteen years he has centered his research on circle packing. In this book he formulates circle packing as a discrete incarnation of classical analytic function theory.

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