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Differentiable Manifolds
Häftad, 2008
878 kr
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The basics of differentiable manifolds, global calculus, differential geometry, and related topics constitute a core of information essential for the first or second year graduate student preparing for advanced courses and seminars in differential topology and geometry. Differentiable Manifolds is …
Number Theory
An approach through history From Hammurapi to Legendre
Av André Weil
Häftad, 2006
1314 kr
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Number Theory or arithmetic, as some prefer to call it, is the oldest, purest, liveliest, most elementary yet sophisticated field of mathematics. It is no coincidence that the fundamental science of numbers has come to be known as the "Queen of Mathematics." Indeed some of the most complex …
Prime Numbers and Computer Methods for Factorization
Av Hans Riesel
Häftad, 2011
878 kr
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From the original hard cover edition:In the modern age of almost universal computer usage, practically every individual in a technologically developed society has routine access to the most up-to-date cryptographic technology that exists, the so-called RSA public-key cryptosystem. A major component …
Grothendieck Festschrift, Volume I
A Collection of Articles Written in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Alexander Grothendieck
Av Pierre Cartier, Luc Illusie m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1423 kr
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Alexander Grothendieck’s sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the world’s greatest living mathematicians. Many of the groundbreaking contributions in these volumes contain material that is now considered foundational to the subject. …
Grothendieck Festschrift, Volume II
A Collection of Articles Written in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Alexander Grothendieck
Av Pierre Cartier, Luc Illusie m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1423 kr
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Alexander Grothendieck’s sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the world’s greatest living mathematicians. Many of the groundbreaking contributions in these volumes contain material that is now considered foundational to the subject. …
Grothendieck Festschrift, Volume III
A Collection of Articles Written in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Alexander Grothendieck
Av Pierre Cartier, Luc Illusie m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1423 kr
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Alexander Grothendieck’s sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the world’s greatest living mathematicians. Many of the groundbreaking contributions in these volumes contain material that is now considered foundational to the subject. …
Tata Lectures on Theta II
Jacobian theta functions and differential equations
Häftad, 2006
987 kr
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The second in a series of three volumes surveying the theory of theta functions, this volume gives emphasis to the special properties of the theta functions associated with compact Riemann surfaces and how they lead to solutions of the Korteweg-de-Vries equations as well as other non-linear …
Tata Lectures on Theta I
Häftad, 2006
1205 kr
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This volume contains the first two out of four chapters which are intended to survey a large part of the theory of theta functions. These notes grew out of a series of lectures given at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in the period October, 1978, to March, 1979, on which notes were taken …
Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
Av Mikhail Gromov, Jacques LaFontaine m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1423 kr
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Metric theory has undergone a dramatic phase transition in the last decades when its focus moved from the foundations of real analysis to Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology, to the theory of infinite groups and probability theory.The new wave began with seminal papers by Svarc and Milnor on …
Notions of Convexity
Häftad, 2006
1423 kr
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The term convexity used to describe these lectures given at the Univer sity of Lund in 1991-92 should be understood in a wide sense. Only Chap ters I and II are devoted to convex sets and functions in the traditional sense of convexity. The following chapters study other kinds of convexity which …
Introduction to Quantum Groups
Häftad, 2010
933 kr
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According to Drinfeld, a quantum group is the same as a Hopf algebra. This includes as special cases, the algebra of regular functions on an algebraic group and the enveloping algebra of a semisimple Lie algebra. The qu- tum groups discussed in this book are the quantized enveloping algebras …
Knot Theory and Its Applications
Häftad, 2007
715 kr
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Knot theory is a concept in algebraic topology that has found applications to a variety of mathematical problems as well as to problems in computer science, biological and medical research, and mathematical physics. This book is directed to a broad audience of researchers, beginning graduate …
Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms
Av Daniel H. Greene, Donald E. Knuth
Häftad, 2007
769 kr
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This monograph, derived from an advanced computer science course at Stanford University, builds on the fundamentals of combinatorial analysis and complex variable theory to present many of the major paradigms used in the precise analysis of algorithms, emphasizing the more difficult notions. The …
Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization
Häftad, 2007
824 kr
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This book deals with the differential geometry of manifolds, loop spaces, line bundles and groupoids, and the relations of this geometry to mathematical physics. The book will be of interest to topologists, geometers, Lie theorists and mathematical physicists, as well as to operator algebraists. It …
Mathematical Control Theory
An Introduction
Häftad, 2007
719 kr
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"This book is designed as a graduate text on the mathematical theory of deterministic control. It covers a remarkable number of topics...The book includes material on the realization of both linear and nonlinear systems, impulsive control, and positive linear systems--subjects not usually covered …
Algebraic K-Theory
Häftad, 2007
824 kr
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Algebraic K-Theory has become an increasingly active area of research. With its connections to algebra, algebraic geometry, topology, and number theory, it has implications for a wide variety of researchers and graduate students in mathematics. The book is based on lectures given at the author's …
Optimal Control and Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations
Av Martino Bardi, Italo Capuzzo-Dolcetta
Häftad, 2008
1532 kr
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The purpose of the present book is to offer an up-to-date account of the theory of viscosity solutions of first order partial differential equations of Hamilton-Jacobi type and its applications to optimal deterministic control and differential games. The theory of viscosity solutions, initiated in …
H∞-Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems
A Dynamic Game Approach
Av Tamer Başar, Pierre Bernhard
Häftad, 2008
878 kr
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“I believe that the authors have written a first-class book which can be used for a second or third year graduate level course in the subject... Researchers working in the area will certainly use the book as a standard reference....”SIAM Review (Review of the First Edition)“This book is devoted to …
Robust Nonlinear Control Design
State-Space and Lyapunov Techniques
Av Randy A. Freeman, Petar V. Kokotovic
Häftad, 2008
1096 kr
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The purpose of the book is to summarize Lyapunov design techniques for nonlinear systems and to raise important issues concerning large-signal robustness and performance. The authors have been the first to address some of these issues, and they report their findings in this text. For example, they …
Logic for Computer Scientists
Av Uwe Schöning
Häftad, 2008
715 kr
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By the development of new fields and applications, such as Automated Theorem Proving and Logic Programming, Logic has obtained a new and important role in Computer Science. The traditional mathematical way of dealing with Logic is in some respect not tailored for Computer Science - plications. This …
Intersection Cohomology
Av Armand Borel
Häftad, 2008
1314 kr
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This volume contains the Notes of a seminar on Intersection Ho- logy which met weekly during the Spring 1983 at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Its main purpose was to give an introduction to the pie- wise linear and sheaf theoretic aspects of the theory Goresky and R. MacPherson, Topology …
Perspectives on the History of Mathematical Logic
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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This volume offers insights into the development of mathematical logic over the last century. Arising from a special session of the history of logic at an American Mathematical Society meeting, the chapters explore technical innovations, the philosophical consequences of work during the period, and …
Discriminants, Resultants, and Multidimensional Determinants
Av Israel M. Gelfand, Mikhail Kapranov m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
1423 kr
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“This book revives and vastly expands the classical theory of resultants and discriminants. Most of the main new results of the book have been published earlier in more than a dozen joint papers of the authors. The book nicely complements these original papers with many examples illustrating both …
Linear Differential Equations and Group Theory from Riemann to Poincare
Av Jeremy Gray
Häftad, 2008
824 kr
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This book is a study of how a particular vision of the unity of mathematics, often called geometric function theory, was created in the 19th century. The central focus is on the convergence of three mathematical topics: the hypergeometric and related linear differential equations, group theory, and …
Discrete Thoughts
Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy
Av Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
933 kr
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as anywhere today, it is becoming more d- ficult to tell the truth. To be sure, our store of accurate facts is more plentiful now than it has ever been, and the minutest details of history are being thoroughly recorded. Scientists, - men and scholars vie with each other in publishing excruciatingly …
Bernhard Riemann 1826–1866
Turning Points in the Conception of Mathematics
Häftad, 2008
706 kr
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This remarkable work, rich in insight and scholarship, is addressed to mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers interested in mathematics. It seeks to draw those readers closer to the underlying ideas of Riemann’s work and to the development of them in their historical context. This …
Riemann, Topology, and Physics
Häftad, 2008
933 kr
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Ten years have passed since the publication of the first English edition. "Ten years is a long time, even when you are not in jail. " If we recall that the article on Riemann appeared in (Nature) in 1976, this Russian vaudeville joke is more than - propriate. Only the author's youth can account for …
Indiscrete Thoughts
Av Gian-Carlo Rota, Fabrizio Palombi
Häftad, 2008
1641 kr
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Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician. The era covered by this book, 1950 to 1990, was surely one of the golden ages of science as well as the American university.Cherished myths are …
Non-Euclidean Revolution
Häftad, 2008
715 kr
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Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical and philosophical setting; second, he examines a revolution every bit as significant as the …
