I am studying complex analysis and I need to understand conformal mappings — angle-preserving transformations of the complex plane.
I know that any analytic function with non-zero derivative is conformal (preserves angles). The key examples are:
- $w = z + a$ (translation)
- $w = e^{i\theta} z$ (rotation)
- $w = kz$ (scaling)
- $w = 1/z$ (inversion)
- $w = z^2$ (maps upper half-plane to whole plane minus a slit)