Riemann surfaces (Q5902159)

The theory of Riemann surfaces is the microcosm of pure mathematics, in which the methods of topology and geometry, complex and real analysis as well as of the algebra interact to illuminate and to explain the structure of these surfaces. Because of the variety of the used methods, the book contains an introduction to topology (fundamental groups, covering and surfaces), to algebraic geometry (curves and their singularities), and to potential theory (harmonic functions). This second enlarged and revised edition of the book contains a new chapter on the de Rham cohomology of Riemann surfaces, in which Pfaff forms, surface forms, ring domains, disks, Hodge decompositions, period matrices, and normalized differential forms are considered. A new section on the Riemann theta functions is added, be means of which the Korteweg-de Vries nonlinear partial differential equation describing the propagation of solitons on canals with rectangular cross-section and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation are solved. An introduction to the Klein surface with 168 automorphisms and its representation by a 14-gon is given through additional problems.