A two-part volume containing a comprehensive description of the theory of entire and meromorphic functions of one complex variable and its applications, and a detailed review of recent investigations concerning the function-theoretical pecularities of polyanalytic functions (boundary behaviour, value distributions, degeneration, uniqueness etc).

Translated by: V.I. Rublinetskij, V. Tkachenko
Contributions by: M.B. Balk, A.A. Gol'dberg, B.Ya. Levin, I.V. Ostrovskii