Alan Beardon

Alan Frank Beardon (born April 16, 1940) 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, 2009 Algebra and Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2005 Limits: A New Approach to Real Analysis, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1997 The geometry of discrete groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1983, 1995 Iteration of rational functions. Complex analytical dynamical systems, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, 1991 A Primer on Riemann Surfaces, Cambridge University Press, 1984 Complex analysis: the argument principle in analysis and topology, Wiley, 1979