Cornerstones Series Editors Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Steven G. Krantz, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Advisory Board Anthony W. Knapp, Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA For further volumes: www.springer.com/series/7161 Terrence Napier Mohan Ramachandran An Introduction to Riemann Surfaces Terrence Napier Mohan Ramachandran Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics Lehigh University SUNY at Buffalo Bethlehem, PA 18015 Buffalo, NY 14260 USA USA
[email protected] [email protected] ISBN 978-0-8176-4692-9 e-ISBN 978-0-8176-4693-6 DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-4693-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011936871 Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 14H55, 30Fxx, 32-01 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.birkhauser-science.com) To Raghavan Narasimhan Preface A Riemann surface X is a connected 1-dimensional complex manifold, that is, a connected Hausdorff space that is locally homeomorphic to open subsets of C with complex analytic coordinate transformations (this also makes X a real 2-dimensional smooth manifold).