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Methods and results in the theory of univalent functions

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This paper is the original version of the author's survey, published in an abridged form in the Mathematical Encyclopedia (N. A. Lebedev, “Univalent function,” in: Mathematical Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, Moscow (1982), pp. 1163–1168).

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This paper of N. A. Lebedev, which opens the present collection, represents a more developed preliminary version of N. A. Lebedev's survey paper “Univalent functions,” published in “Mathematical Encyclopedia.” The paper is published with only insignificant modifications. By italic letters we have denoted the titles of the sections in the Mathematical Encyclopedia, directly related to this survey paper — Editors' remark.

Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 125, pp. 5–21, 1983.

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Lebedev, N.A. Methods and results in the theory of univalent functions. J Math Sci 26, 2299–2310 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01680008

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