Complex Dynamics (Universitext: Tracts in Mathematics)

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Summary: My letter to Dr. Pickover about this book:
Review: I got the Complex Dynamics book that Dr. McMullen recommended and I linked last to Amazon.com : there is no mention of programming anywhere in the book! It is Ivory tower math that enshrines the " Julia set" as perfect mathematics, ha, ha... Since I have used IFS to simulate Julia sets experimentally, I can say that I have a hard time recognizing it in their language! Something is dreadfully wrong in this axiomatic approach that ignores the actual math that is calculated and it's methods! The thesis on Herman's rings by the Dane is as good a complex dynamics text as this one and he actually defines terms like quasicomformal in Riemannian terms so that it can be understood! There is a real need for better bridging books between graduate level axiomatic approaches and beginning complex variables and programming! It should probably not be written by a professor type who will be forced to bend to " peers" in his use of language. Definition of terms and glossaries are so sadly missing in so many of these books!

Rating:
Summary: My letter to Dr. Pickover about this book:
Review: I got the Complex Dynamics book that Dr. McMullen recommended and I linked last to Amazon.com : there is no mention of programming anywhere in the book! It is Ivory tower math that enshrines the " Julia set" as perfect mathematics, ha, ha... Since I have used IFS to simulate Julia sets experimentally, I can say that I have a hard time recognizing it in their language! Something is dreadfully wrong in this axiomatic approach that ignores the actual math that is calculated and it's methods! The thesis on Herman's rings by the Dane is as good a complex dynamics text as this one and he actually defines terms like quasicomformal in Riemannian terms so that it can be understood! There is a real need for better bridging books between graduate level axiomatic approaches and beginning complex variables and programming! It should probably not be written by a professor type who will be forced to bend to " peers" in his use of language. Definition of terms and glossaries are so sadly missing in so many of these books!