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In 1916, L. Bieberbach stated his famous conjecture: If \(f(z)= z+ a_2z^2+ a_3z^3+\cdots\) is analytic and univalent in the unit disk, then \(|a_n|\leq n\); equality holds only for the Koebe function or one of its rotations. The conjecture remained unsolved until the proof by L. de Branges in 1984. In the intervening years, hundreds of papers were written expanding the theory of univalent functions and contributing to the eventual solution. This book (with a preface by Carl H. FitzGerald) is a concise, readable, and essentially self-contained account of the mathematics that makes up the history of the Bieberbach conjecture. The book is a translation and expansion of the author's book with the same title, which appeared in Chinese in 1989. Chapter I (Introduction) provides the background of classical results and the contributions by Littlewood, Landau, Goluzin, Bazilevich, Milin, FitzGerald, and Horowitz. The relationships between the Milin-, Robertson-, Sheil-Small-, Rogosinski-, Bieberbach-, Asymptotic Bieberbach-, and Littlewood conjectures are provided. Chapter II (Löwner theory) addresses the Carathéodory kernel convergence theorem, the Löwner differential equation, the proof that \(|a_3|\leq 3\), and the FitzGerald inequality. Chapter III (Grunsky inequality) includes Faber polynomials, the Grunsky inequality, the proof that \(|a_4|\leq 4\), and the Lebedev-Milin inequalities. Remaining open problems are pointed out along the way. Chapter IV (De Branges theorem) presents the Askey-Gasper theorem, de Branges's proof of the Milin conjecture, Weinstein's proof of de Branges's theorem, and the work by Wilf. Chapter V (Several complex variable cases) expands on H. Cartan's 1933 observation that there does not exist a corresponding Bieberbach conjecture in the case of several complex variables.