About the cover: the Ruscheweyh derivatives. To the memory of Stephan Ruscheweyh (Q2174777)

The title of the note under review could be understood to imply that the reader will be rewarded with a technical analysis of the graphics on the cover of the commemorative volume in memory of Stephan Ruscheweyh. The note reminds us of the celebrated Polya-Schoenberg conjecture proven by \textit{St. Ruscheweyh} and \textit{T. Sheil-Small} [Comment. Math. Helv. 48, 119--135 (1973; Zbl 0261.30015)]. Among the classes of functions analytic in the open unit disc in the complex plane, convex, star-like, and close-to-convex subsets were particularly well studied during the last several decades of the XXth century. A univalent function \(f,\) with the standard normalization \(f(0)=0\), \(f'(0)=1\), is called convex if it maps the open unit disc onto a convex domain. The Hadamard product of two analytic functions, \(f\) and \(g\), is constructed by multiplying the corresponding coefficients of the power series representations of \(f\) and \(g\) and using the products as the coefficients of the product \(f*g\) of \(f\) and \(g\) [\textit{S. Ruscheweyh}, Convolutions in geometric function theory. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal (1982; Zbl 0499.30001)]. Ruscheweyh and Shield-Small proved the Polya-Schoenberg conjecture that the product of two convex univalent functions in the open unit disc is also convex. Ruscheweyh used the Hadamard product to define the Ruscheweyh derivatives of an analytic, normalized, function [\textit{S. Ruscheweyh}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 49, 109--115 (1975; Zbl 0303.30006)]. The note under review contains the graphics of the phase plots of tan(z) and its first and second order Ruscheweyh derivatives, and points out that the cover of the commemorative volume contains a phase plot of the fith Ruscheweyh derivative of tan(z). However, the reader curious about the graphics needs to explore the work by the same author from 2010--2012 [\textit{E. Wegert}, Visual complex functions. An introduction with phase portraits. Basel: Birkhäuser (2012; Zbl 1264.30001)]. The Ruschewegh derivatives can be used to analytically express some geometric properties of the subclasses of the class of analytic functions. The note provides a short survey of the best known connections between the star-like functions of various order and functions of positive real part, as well as the relevant references. It is an invitation to study the numerous contributions of Stephan Ruscheweyh to geometric function theory.