Alan Frank Beardon
Alan Frank Beardon is a British mathematician.
Education and career
Beardon obtained his doctorate at Imperial College London in 1964, supervised by Walter Hayman. In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of [Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics] at the University of Cambridge, with promotions to readership and professorship until his retirement in 2007. He is an emeritus fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Works
Creative Mathematics - The Gateway to Research, Cambridge University Press, 2009Algebra and Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005Limits: A New Approach to Real Analysis, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1997The geometry of discrete groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1983, 1995Iteration of rational functions. Complex analytical dynamical systems, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1991A Primer on Riemann Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, 1984Complex analysis: the argument principle in analysis and topology, Wiley, 1979