Applied quaternionic analysis

Quaternionic analysis is the most natural and close generalization of complex analysis that preserves many of its important features. The present book is meant as an introduction and invitation to this theory and its applications (in fact it was inspired by a course given by the author to graduate engineering students). Restricting ourselves to Maxwell's equations and the Dirac equation only we show the progress achieved in applied quaternionic analysis during the last five years, emphasising results which can not so easily be obtained by other methods. Thus, the main objective of this work is to introduce the reader to some topics of quaternionic analysis whose selection is motivated by particular models from the theory of electromagnetic and spinor fields, and to show the usefulness and necessity of applying the tools of quaternionic analysis to these kinds of problems.