Posted by tpc at May 11th, 2010
Cool article about Pixar and some applications of harmonic function. Would have been useful last year when I taught the maximum principle but didn’t have much else to say about it.
Moving Remy in Harmony: Pixar’s Use of Harmonic Functions
by David Austin.
via: JohnDCook’s twitter.
Posted by tpc at April 30th, 2008
I’ve finally wiped the dust off my copy of Ahlfors and started reading from page 1. Previously, I’ve only looked at the chapter on Elliptic functions as a reference. I’ve skimmed through four chapters and decided that it is probably not very suitable for the complex analysis course later in the year. It’s a pity because the international version of Ahlfors is readily available locally and costs less than US$20.
I’ve been looking at several nice books, Stein and Shakachi, Gamelin and Needham.
All seem pretty promising, especially Needham’s Visual Complex Analysis. I have read many good reviews of the book, and now that I’m starting to look at the contents seriously, I agree it’s very good, and unconventional.
