American Mathematical Society - Böcker

The lecture notes contained in this volume were presented at the AMS Short Course on Population Biology, held August 6-7, 1983, in Albany, New York in conjunction with the summer meeting of the American Mathematical Society. These notes will acqua...

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This collection of six papers provides a valuable source of material on the real-world problem of allocating objects among competing claimants. The examples given show how mathematics, particularly the axiomatic method, can be applied to give insi...

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Offers brief treatises on several mathematical areas and a historical summary of American contributions to mathematics during the Society's first fifty years.

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In the 100 years since the founding of the AMS, the American mathematical community has grown from a small group heavily dependent on European mathematicians to a large and influential group that in many areas sets the standard for the rest of the...

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The first section of the book deals with some of the influential mathematics departments in the United States. Functioning as centers of research and training, these departments played a major role in shaping the mathematical life in this country....

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Computational complexity theory is the study of the quantitative laws that govern computing. During the last 25 years, this field has grown into a rich mathematical theory. Currently one of the most active research areas in computer science, compl...

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The present book is the third and final volume in the "A Century of Mathematics in America" collection. The theme of the second volume is continued here in articles describing the mathematics and the mathematical personalities in some of...

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Contains the lecture notes prepared for the AMS Short Course on Matrix Theory and Applications, held in Phoenix in January, 1989. Among the themes in this volume are the notion of majorization, the trend away from "basis-free" point of v...

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The proceedings of a symposium organized to honour the memory of the theoretical physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The range of topics covered by the contributors is broad, resulting in a genuine exchange of ide...

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Documents the role played by civilian analysts, especially mathematicians, in operations research. The story is told chronologically, beginning with the arrival of the nucleus of the Operational Research Section in England in October of 1942, and ...

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Anatolii Fomenko is a Soviet mathematician with a talent for expressing abstract mathematical concepts through artwork. Some of his works echo those of M. C. Escher in their meticulous rendering of shapes and patterns, while other pieces seem to b...

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Contains the six lectures of an AMS short course in robotics in Louisville, Kentucky, January 1990: some mathematical aspects of robotics, manipulator kinematics, the resolution of kinematic redundancy, grasping and manipulation using multifingere...

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Throughout the history of mathematics, maximum and minimum problems have played an important role in the evolution of the field. This book presents 15 stories designed to acquaint readers with the central concepts of the theory of maxima and minima.

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Dennis Weeks has edited and translated from the Latin the 1782 edition of English mathematician Waring's (1734-1798) account of the stages of the growth of algebra. Included as an appendix is the only critical review of the Meditationes known to h...

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This textbook provides the basics of linear algebra, with an emphasis on new results and on nonstandard and interesting proofs. The book features about 230 problems with complete solutions making it suitable as a supplementary text for an undergra...

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A collection of papers primarily concerned with the analysis of singularities of discriminant hypersurfaces formed by the degenerate objects in different spaces of mappings. This work springs form the Singularity Seminar at Moscow State University...

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This is a carefully refereed collection of invited survey articles written by outstanding researchers. Aimed at researchers in discrete mathematics, operations research, and the theory of computing, this book offers an in-depth look at many topics...

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This book contains papers presented at the Workshop on Parallel Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems held at DIMACS in April 1994.

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Contains sections on Complex differential geometry, Partial differential equations, Homogeneous spaces, and Relativity.

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This volume presents research in classical Hamiltonian and quantum systems from the Workshop on Conservative Systems and Quantum Chaos held during The Fields Institute Program Year on Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation Theory in October 1992 (Water...

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This is the proceedings of a conference held at the Fields Insitute and designed to bring together traditionally disparate fields of mathematical research. On such key interraction occurs between dynamical systems and algorithms. This volume explo...

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This volume covers the spectrum of research involved in combining symmetry methods with dynamical systems and bifurcation theory, from the development of the mathematical theory to partial differential equation models of realistic physical phenome...

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Recent years has seen a growing understanding between mathematicians and applied scientists which has led ot the development of powerful tools for the analysis of the complex behaviour of deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems. They has mo...

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A collection of articles reviewing the diverse recent progress in the theory and development of lattice-gas and lattice Boltzmann methods, and their applications. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach including mathematics, physical chemist...

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Dedicated to the late Juan Calos Simo, this volume contains the proceedings of a workshop held at the Fields Institute in October 1993. The articles focus on current algorithms for the integration of mechanical systems, from systems in celestial m...

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This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop held at the Fields Institue both as a commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the publication of "Foundations of Mechanics by Abraham and Marsden and as a celebration of Marsden's 50th birthday. ...

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This book bridges the gap between the many elementary introductions to set theory that are available today and the more advanced, specialized monographs. The authors have taken great care to motivate concepts as they are introduced. The large numb...

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This is a detailed and systematic exposition of the fundamental methods and results of Hecke theory for modular forms.

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The main subject of this book can be viewed in various ways. From the standpoint of functional analysis, it studies spectral properties of a certain class of linear operators; from the viewpoint of probability theory, it is concerned with the anal...

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