birkhäuser jul 2008 (17 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sexten Kultur hat den Architekturpreis 'Neues Bauen in den Alpen' zum vierten Mal ausgelobt und 2006 an die Architekten von hervorragenden Bauwerken in den Alpen verliehen. Der anspruchsvoll gestaltete Katalog tritt die direkte Nachfolge des mit dem Frankfurter Buchpreis ausgezeichneten Ausstellungskataloges von 1999 an: Besondere Bauwerke werden aufgegriffen und an deren Beispiel wird das Bauen in den Bergen mit seinen besonderen topografischen und klimatischen Bedingungen fachkundig analysiert. 31 Bauten aus 419 eingereichten Projekten wurden ausgezeichnet und aus der Sicht der fünf Juroren beschrieben. Die Jury ist mit den Architekturhistorikern Bruno Reichlin und Friedrich Achleitner sowie den international renommierten Architekten Sebastiano Brandolini, Manfred Kovatsch und Günther Vogt in einmaliger Weise zusammengesetzt. Die atmosphärisch dichten Beschreibungen und Analysen ergänzen sich in idealer Weise mit den hochkarätigen Fotografien und geben so in besonderer Weise die Stimmungen der Bauwerke wieder. Die Ausstellung des Architekturpreises wird erneut mehrere Jahre wandern:Innsbruck, Linz, Bozen, Flims, Wien, Cividate Camuno; 2008: Landsberg, München, Graz, Stuttgart, Kempten, Zell am See (Saalfelden). Weiter ab 2009 geplant: Zürich, Basel, Dornbirn, Grenoble, Belluno, Imst, Eisenstadt, Thonon les Bains, Bergamo In 2006, for the fourth time, Sexten Kultur advertised the architecture prize Neues Bauen in den Alpen (New Building in the Alps) and awarded it to the architects of outstanding structures in the Alps. This handsomely designed catalogue is the direct successor to the 1999 exhibition catalogue, which was honored with the Frankfurt Book Award. It selects particular structures and as exemplary for a technical analysis of building in the mountains, with its special climatic and topographical conditions. Of 419 submitted projects, 31 projects were honored and described by the five distinguished jurors: architectural historians Bruno Reichlin and Friedrich Achleitner and the internationally esteemed architects Sebastiano Brandolini, Manfred Kovatsch, and Günther Vogt. The highly atmospheric descriptions and analyses are ideally supplemented by the top-flight photographs and thus do a beautiful job of rendering the structures temoerament and character. The exhibition of the architecture prize will travel to numerous venues in the next several years: Innsbruck, Linz, Bolzano, Flims, Vienna, Cividate Camuno; in 2008 Landsberg, Munich, Graz, Stuttgart, Kempten, Zell am See (Saalfelden). Also planned in 2009, Zurich, Basel, Dornbirn, Grenoble, Belluno, Imst, Eisenstadt, Thonon les Bains, and Bergamo. ; Sexten Kultur hat den Architekturpreis Neues Bauen in den Alpen zum vierten Mal ausgelobt. Besondere Bauwerke werden aufgegriffen und an deren Beispiel wird das Bauen in den Bergen mit seinen besonderen topografischen und klimatischen Bedingungen fachkundig analysiert.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is about relations between three different areas of mathematics and theoretical computer science: combinatorial group theory, cryptography, and complexity theory. It is explored how non-commutative (infinite) groups, which are typically studied in combinatorial group theory, can be used in public key cryptography. It is also shown that there is a remarkable feedback from cryptography to combinatorial group theory because some of the problems motivated by cryptography appear to be new to group theory, and they open many interesting research avenues within group theory.Then, complexity theory, notably generic-case complexity of algorithms, is employed for cryptanalysis of various cryptographic protocols based on infinite groups, and the ideas and machinery from the theory of generic-case complexity are used to study asymptotically dominant properties of some infinite groups that have been applied in public key cryptography so far. Its elementary exposition makes the book accessible to graduate as well as undergraduate students in mathematics or computer science. 183 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The main objective of this book is to give a broad uni ed introduction to the study of dimension and recurrence inhyperbolic dynamics. It includes a disc- sion of the foundations, main results, and main techniques in the rich interplay of fourmain areas of research: hyperbolic dynamics, dimension theory, multifractal analysis, and quantitative recurrence. It also gives a panorama of several selected topics of current research interest. This includes topics on irregular sets, var- tional principles, applications to number theory, measures of maximal dimension, multifractal rigidity, and quantitative recurrence. The book isdirected to researchersas well as graduate students whowish to have a global view of the theory together with a working knowledgeof its main techniques. It can also be used as a basis for graduatecourses in dimension theory of dynamical systems, multifractal analysis (together with a discussion of several special topics), and pointwise dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics. I hope that the book may serve as a fast entry point to this exciting and active eld of research, and also that it may lead to further developments. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume attempts to present the current state of seismic research by focusing not only on the modeling of earthquakes and earthquake generated tsunamis, but also on practical comparisons of the resulting phenomenology. In the 1990s, major advancements in seismic research greatly added to the understanding of earthquake fault systems as complex dynamical systems. Large quantities of new and extensive remote sensing data sets provided information on the solid earth. 351 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Background on Groups, Complexity, and Cryptography.- Background on Public Key Cryptography.- Background on Combinatorial Group Theory.- Background on Computational Complexity.- Non-commutative Cryptography.- Canonical Non-commutative Cryptography.- Platform Groups.- Using Decision Problems in Public Key Cryptography.- Generic Complexity and Cryptanalysis.- Distributional Problems and the Average-Case Complexity.- Generic Case Complexity.- Generic Complexity of NP-complete Problems.- Asymptotically Dominant Properties and Cryptanalysis.- Asymptotically Dominant Properties.- Length-Based and Quotient Attacks.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on a streamlined presentation of the author's successful work, An Introduction to Frames and Riesz Bases, this book develops frame theory as part of a dialogue between mathematicians and engineers. Newly added sections on applications will help mathematically oriented readers to see where frames are used in practice and engineers to discover the mathematical background for applications in their field. The book presents basic results in an accessible way and includes extensive exercises. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In recent years, large earthquakes in the circum-Pacific region have repeatedly demonstrated its particular vulnerability to this potentially devastating natural hazard, including the M ~ 9.2 Northern Sumatra earthquake and tsunami of 2004 which resulted in the deaths of nearly 300,000 people. In the late-1990s, major advancements in seismic research greatly added to the understanding of earthquake fault systems, as large quantities of new and extensive remote sensing data sets, that provided information on the solid earth on scales previously inaccessible, were integrated with a combination of innovative analysis techniques and advanced numerical and computational methods implemented on high-performance computers. This book includes a variety of studies that focus on the modeling of tsunamis and earthquakes, both large-scale simulation and visualization programs, as well as detailed models of small-scale features. Particular attention is paid to computational techniques, languages, and hardware that can be used to facilitate data analysis, visualization, and modeling. Also included are studies of several earthquake forecasting techniques and associated comparisons of their results with historic earthquake data. Finally, the volume ends with theoretical analyses of statistical properties of seismicity by internationally recognized experts in the field. This volume will be of particular interest to researchers interested in the multiscale simulation and visualization of large earthquakes and tsunamis.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 356 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The main objective of this book is to give a broad uni ed introduction to the study of dimension and recurrence inhyperbolic dynamics. It includes a disc- sion of the foundations, main results, and main techniques in the rich interplay of fourmain areas of research: hyperbolic dynamics, dimension theory, multifractal analysis, and quantitative recurrence. It also gives a panorama of several selected topics of current research interest. This includes topics on irregular sets, var- tional principles, applications to number theory, measures of maximal dimension, multifractal rigidity, and quantitative recurrence. The book isdirected to researchersas well as graduate students whowish to have a global view of the theory together with a working knowledgeof its main techniques. It can also be used as a basis for graduatecourses in dimension theory of dynamical systems, multifractal analysis (together with a discussion of several special topics), and pointwise dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics. I hope that the book may serve as a fast entry point to this exciting and active eld of research, and also that it may lead to further developments.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is devoted to the spectral theory of commutative C\*-algebras of Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space and its applications. For each such commutative algebra there is a unitary operator which reduces Toeplitz operators from this algebra to certain multiplication operators, thus providing their spectral type representations. This yields a powerful research tool giving direct access to the majority of the important properties of the Toeplitz operators studied herein, such as boundedness, compactness, spectral properties, invariant subspaces. The presence and exploitation of these spectral type representations forms the core for many results presented in the book. Among other results it contains a criterion of when the algebras are commutative on each commonly considered weighted Bergman space together with their explicit descriptions; a systematic study of Toeplitz operators with unbounded symbols; a clarification of the difference between compactness of commutators and semi-commutators of Toeplitz operators; the theory of Toeplitz and related operators with symbols having more than two limit values at boundary points; and a kind of semi-classical analysis of spectral properties of Toeplitz operators.The book is addressed to a wide audience of mathematicians, from graduate students to researchers, whose primary interests lie in complex analysis and operator theory. 418 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume celebrates the tenth edition of the Brazilian School of Probability (EBP), held at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, from July 30 to August 4, 2006, jointly with the 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It was indeed an exceptional occasion for the local community working in this eld. The EBP, rst envisioned and organized in 1997, has since developed into an annual meeting with two or three advanced mini-courses and a high level conference. This volume grew up from invited or contributed articles by researchers that during the last ten yearshave been participating in the BrazilianSchool of Pro- bility. As a consequence, its content partially re ects the topics that have pred- inated in the activities during the various editions of the School, with a strong - peal that comes from statistical mechanics and areasof concentrationthat include interacting particlesystems, percolation, random media anddisordered systems. All articles of this volume were peer-refereed. 574 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Kvasz's book is a contribution to the history and philosophy of mat- matics, or, as one might say, the historical approach to the philosophy of mathematics. This approach is for mathematics what the history and philosophy of science is for science. Yet the historical approach to the philosophy of science appeared much earlier than the historical approach to the philosophy of mathematics. The rst signi cant work in the history and philosophy of science is perhaps William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their History. This was originally published in 1840, a second, enlarged edition appeared in 1847, and the third edition appeared as three separate works p- lished between 1858 and 1860. Ernst Mach's The Science of Mech- ics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development is certainly a work of history and philosophy of science. It rst appeared in 1883, and had six further editions in Mach's lifetime (1888, 1897, 1901, 1904, 1908, and 1912). Duhem's Aim and Structure of Physical Theory appeared in 1906 and had a second enlarged edition in 1914. So we can say that history and philosophy of science was a well-established eld th th by the end of the 19 and the beginning of the 20 century. By contrast the rst signi cant work in the history and philosophy of mathematics is Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations, which was p- lished as a series of papers in the years 1963 and 1964. 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Based on a streamlined presentation of the author's previous work, An Introduction to Frames and Riesz Bases, this new textbook fills a gap in the literature, developing frame theory as part of a dialogue between mathematicians and engineers. Newly added sections on applications will help mathematically oriented readers to see where frames are used in practice and engineers to discover the mathematical background for applications in their field.Featuring extensive exercises, this book will be an excellent textbook for graduate students as well as a good reference for researchers working in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. Practitioners working in digital signal processing who wish to understand the theory behind many modern signal processing tools may also find the book a useful self-study resource.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 336 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This unique book is devoted to the detailed study of the recently discovered commutative C\*-algebras of Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space over the unit disk. Surprisingly, the key point to understanding their structure and classifying them lies in the hyperbolic geometry of the unit disk. The book develops a number of important problems whose successful solution was made possible and is based on the specific features of the Toeplitz operators from these commutative algebras.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 452 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Poisson Approximations via Chen-Stein for Non-Markov Processes.- An Inequality for Oriented 2-D Percolation.- Is Critical 2D Percolation Universal .- A New REM Conjecture.- The Biham-Middleton-Levine Traffic Model for a Single Junction.- Box-Crossings and Continuity Results for Self-Destructive Percolation in the Plane.- A Quenched Invariance Principle for Certain Ballistic Random Walks in i.i.d. Environments.- Homogenenous Multitype Fragmentations.- A Hierarchical Bayes Model for Combining Precipitation Measurements from Different Sources.- A Lower Bound on the Disconnection Time of a Discrete Cylinder.- On the Large Deviations Properties of the Weighted-Serve-the-Longest-Queue Policy.- Exponential Inequalities for Empirical Unbounded Context Trees.- Spatial Point Processes and the Projection Method.- An Improvement on Vajda's Inequality.- Space-Time Percolation.- Computability of Percolation Thresholds.- Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on Directed Graphs.- Ising Model Fog Drip: The First Two Droplets.- Convergence to Fractional Brownian Motion and to the Telecom Process: the Integral Representation Approach.- Positive Recurrence of a One-Dimensional Variant of Diffusion Limited Aggregation.- Gibbsian Description of Mean-Field Models.- What is the Difference Between a Square and a Triangle .- Long-Range Dependence in Mean and Volatility: Models, Estimation and Forecasting.- Percolation in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Spin Glass.- A Note on the Diffusivity of Finite-Range Asymmetric Exclusion Processes on .- On the Role of Spatial Aggregation in the Extinction of a Species.- Systems of Random Equations. A Review of Some Recent Results.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 588 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Kvasz¿s book is a contribution to the history and philosophy of mat- matics, or, as one might say, the historical approach to the philosophy of mathematics. This approach is for mathematics what the history and philosophy of science is for science. Yet the historical approach to the philosophy of science appeared much earlier than the historical approach to the philosophy of mathematics. The rst signi cant work in the history and philosophy of science is perhaps William Whewell¿s Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their History. This was originally published in 1840, a second, enlarged edition appeared in 1847, and the third edition appeared as three separate works p- lished between 1858 and 1860. Ernst Mach¿s The Science of Mech- ics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development is certainly a work of history and philosophy of science. It rst appeared in 1883, and had six further editions in Mach¿s lifetime (1888, 1897, 1901, 1904, 1908, and 1912). Duhem¿s Aim and Structure of Physical Theory appeared in 1906 and had a second enlarged edition in 1914. So we can say that history and philosophy of science was a well-established eld th th by the end of the 19 and the beginning of the 20 century. By contrast the rst signi cant work in the history and philosophy of mathematics is Lakatos¿s Proofs and Refutations, which was p- lished as a series of papers in the years 1963 and 1964.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Auf welche Art wirkt und überzeugt Design Was wissen GestalterInnen von den Regeln, die sie, teilweise unbewusst, anwenden Die zeitgenössische Designforschung entwickelt zunehmend ein Interesse an den rhetorischenMechanismen der Design-Praxis. Der vorliegende Sammelband stelltdie klassische Kommunikationslehre der Rhetorik als eine neue und umfassende Metatheorie des Designs vor. Sie betrifftprinzipiell alle Bereiche heutigen Designs - vom Grafik-Design über die Architektur bis zur Interfacegestaltung. 'Design als Rhetorik' führt drei Bereiche zusammen: Das Buch stellt die historisch relevanten Texte vor und bildet als Positionsbestimmung die kontroverse zeitgenössische Diskussion ab. Zudem versammelt es in Fallstudien Beiträge zu den wichtigsten Forschungsfeldern wie etwa 'Interaktive Rhetorik', 'Rhetorik Design und Gender', 'Rhetorik des World Wide Web'. 288 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Auf welche Art wirkt und überzeugt Design Was wissen GestalterInnen von den Regeln, die sie, teilweise unbewusst, anwenden Die zeitgenössische Designforschung entwickelt zunehmend ein Interesse an den rhetorischenMechanismen der Design-Praxis.Der vorliegende Sammelband stelltdie klassische Kommunikationslehre der Rhetorik als eine neue und umfassende Metatheorie des Designs vor. Sie betrifftprinzipiell alle Bereiche heutigen Designs ¿ vom Grafik-Design über die Architektur bis zur Interfacegestaltung.'Design als Rhetorik' führt drei Bereiche zusammen: Das Buch stellt die historisch relevanten Texte vor und bildet als Positionsbestimmung die kontroverse zeitgenössische Diskussion ab. Zudem versammelt es in Fallstudien Beiträge zu den wichtigsten Forschungsfeldern wie etwa ¿Interaktive Rhetorik', ¿Rhetorik Design und Gender', ¿Rhetorik des World Wide Web'.De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 288 pp. Deutsch.