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About the Cover: The Minimum Modulus Problem for Entire Functions

To the Memory of Walter Hayman

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Honoring Walter Hayman’s groundbreaking work on entire functions, the cover of this volume is based on his counterexample to Wiman’s conjecture. In this note we sketch some background.

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Wegert, E. About the Cover: The Minimum Modulus Problem for Entire Functions. Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 21, 1–5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40315-021-00366-9

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