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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The requirements confronting our workplaces have recently undergone a dramatic transformation. Constantly shifting workspace populations and varying uses of workspace call for flexible spatial structures, and so do new professions and innovative working methods. The plannung of workspaces is influenced by the digitalization of our storage media as well as by new materials and building technologies. And yet for all the importance of flexibility and technology, the ultimate focus isstill on human beings. How, then can the multilayered concepts of indoor climate, lighting, acoustics, and ergonomics be reconciled with spatial structures that lend themselves to a variety of uses In keeping with the typological approach of the series, this volume of the series In Detail presents the various work environments organized according to use. The focus throughout is on the successful interplay between technical standards, organizational structures, and human needs.; Die Anforderungen an unsere Arbeitsräume haben sich in jüngster Zeit grundlegend verändert: Wechselnde Belegungsdichte und Raumnutzung fordern in gleicher Weise Flexibilität der Raumstrukturen wie neue Berufe und innovative Arbeitsmethoden. Digitalisierung unserer Arbeitsmedien beeinflusst dabei ebenso die Planung der Arbeitsräume wie neue Materialien und Gebäudetechnologien. Bei aller Fexibilität und Technik steht der Mensch aber im Mittelpunkt - wie lassen sich also die vielschichtigen Konzepte hinsichtlich Raumklima, Licht, Akustik und auch Ergonomie mit unterschiedlich nutzbaren Raumstrukturen in Einklang bringen Entsprechend dem typologischen Ansatz der Reihe stellt dieser Im Detail-Titel die verschiedenen Arbeitswelten anhand deren Nutzung vor. Im Zentrum steht dabei immer das gelungene Zusammenspiel zwischen technischen Standards, organisatorischen Strukturen und den menschlichen Ansprüchen.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Whether it be as translucent sheets, broadly stretched membranes, and inflated foil cushions or in graceful, organic curves, architecture today is utilizing plastics in the most disparate forms and for a wide variety of purposes. Innovative technical developments are constantly improving its material properties; at the same time, there is a growing new awareness of its potential as a construction material. While plastics used to be employed primarily as an inexpensive variant on traditional building materials, they are increasingly regarded in the construction world today as a serious and viable alternative, be it as supporting structures, roofs, facades, or elements of interior design and decoration. Thanks in large part to this inherent self-sufficiency, plastics are currently enjoying an unprecedented surge in popularity, even among the international architectural avant-garde as multiwall sheets or corrugated, fiber-reinforced panels, or as filling between glass panes. And the new generation of ecological bioplastics also pays tribute to the debate on sustainability, ridding plastics of their lingering reputation as environmental offenders. From the history of plastics and membranes in architecture to their material properties and requirements in construction and design, the Plastics and Membranes Construction Manual cuts to the chase, providing the kind of solid and comprehensive overview of the subject that readers have come to expect from the Im DETAIL series. Selected project examples round off the reference work and make it indispensable for the day-to-day life of the professional planner and for every architecture library.; Ob als transluzente Platten, weit gespannte Membranen, luftgefülltes Folienkissen oder in organisch geschwungener Gestalt: In den unterschiedlichsten Formen und Anwendungsbereichen finden Kunststoffe Verwendung in der Architektur. Innovative technische Entwicklungen verbessern stetig seine Materialeigenschaften, gleichzeitig wächst ein neues Bewusstsein für dieses Material als Baustoff. Wurden Kunststoffe früher hauptsächlich als preisgünstige Variante zu traditionellen Baustoffen eingesetzt, erfreuen sie sich heute im Bauwesen zunehmend einer ernstzunehmenden Alternative, sei es als Tragkonstruktion, Dach, Fassade oder Inneneinrichtung. Nicht zuletzt durch diesen dem Material innewohnenden eigenständigen Charakter erfreuen Kunststoffe sich einer nicht gekannten Beliebtheit selbst bei der internationalen Avantgarde der Architekten in Form einer besonderen Struktur als Stegplatte, als gewellte und faserverstärkte Tafel, als Schüttung zwischen Glas. Und spätestens die neue Generation ökologischer Bio-Kunststoffe zollt auch der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte Tribut und entledigt die Kunststoffe ihres ihnen anhaftenden Umweltsünderrufs. Beginnend mit der Geschichte der Kunststoffe und Membrane in der Architektur bringt das Plastics and Membranes Construction Manual' über die Werkstoffeigenschaften bis hin zu Anforderungen an Entwurf und Konstruktion in gewohnter DETAIL-Qualität fundiertes und umfassendes Fachwissen auf den Punkt. Ausgewählte Projektbeispiele runden das Nachschlagewerk ab und machen es unabdingbar für den Planungsalltag und jede Architekturbibliothek.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A four-day conference, 'Functional Analysis on the Eve of the Twenty First Century,' was held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from October 24 to 27, 1993, in honor of the eightieth birthday of Professor Israel Moiseyevich Gelfand. He was born in Krasnye Okna, near Odessa, on September 2, 1913. Israel Gelfand has played a crucial role in the development of functional analysis during the last half-century. His work and his philosophy have in fact helped to shape our understanding of the term 'functional analysis' itself, as has the celebrated journal Functional Analysis and Its Applications, which he edited for many years. Functional analysis appeared at the beginning of the century in the classic papers of Hilbert on integral operators. Its crucial aspect was the geometric interpretation of families of functions as infinite-dimensional spaces, and of op erators (particularly differential and integral operators) as infinite-dimensional analogues of matrices, directlyleading to the geometrization of spectral theory. This view of functional analysis as infinite-dimensional geometry organically included many facets of nineteenth-century classical analysis, such as power series, Fourier series and integrals, and other integral transforms.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented.The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a 'green wall' as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award - winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.; Gärten im Gebäudeinneren bieten nachhaltig eine Vielzahl ökologischer und ökonomischer Vorteile. Faktoren wie eine Verbesserung des Raumklimas und der Arbeitsplatzsituation und somit eine Erhöhung der Lebensqualität sind die maßgeblichen Parameter dieser besonderen Entwurfsaufgabe.Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine umfassende Einführung in die Planung und Umsetzung dieser speziellen Gärten und orientiert sich dabei am konkreten Planungsprozess: von Entwurfsgrundlagen, der Konzeptentwicklung mit verschiedenen Typologie-Varianten bis hin zur Materialauswahl, den unterschiedlichen Konstruktionsprinzipien und der Gebäudetechnik werden alle planungsrelevanten Themen umfassend dargestellt.Zahlreiche internationale Beispiele veranschaulichen die planerischen Informationen, wobei die Bandbreite der Projekte von einer begrünten Wand als innenarchitektonischem Element, privaten Hausgärten in Australien, Neuseeland oder Deutschland bis hin zu ausgezeichneten ökologischen Bürogebäude in den USA und der Niederlande, einem Altenheim in Schweden und einem Indoor-Park in Kanada reicht.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - XIV , bilden den Grundstein d~s vorliegenden Buches; sie wurden verbessert, erweitert und mit neuen Beitdigen zu einem einheitlichen Ganzen verschmolzen. Ich glaube, daB das Buch tnanchem Leser auch einige Uberraschungen bereiten wird. So wird u. a. dokumentiert, daB - im Gegensatz zu den iiblichen historischen Bemer kungen - NEWTON das iiberall nach ihm benannte Gesetz 'Kraft gleich Masse mal Beschleunigung' nirgends und niemals, nicht in Worten und erst recht nicht in mathe matischer Formulierung niedergeschrieben hat. Es wird auch dargelegt, daB D'ALEM BERT weder den Streit urn 'das wahre KraftmaB' entschieden noch das nach ihm be nannte 'Paradoxon' nachgewiesen hat. Auch sein kinetisches Prinzip hatte gewich tige V orbilder und geht - ins besondere in der heutigen Form -auf LAGRANGE zuriick. Ebenso ist die Benennung der stationaren Stromfadengleichung nach DANIEL BER NOULLI nicht zutreffend: sein Vater JOHANN hatte sie sogar fUr den instationaren Fall auf die heute iibliche Form gebracht. Die Navier-Stokesschen Bewegungsgleichungen miiBten nach NA VIER und DE SAINT-VENANT benannt werden. Es diirfte auch kaum bekannt sein, daB schon bei DANIEL BERNOULLI eine Art von 'Rayleigh-Quotient' vorkommt. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Understanding Steel Design' is based on an overall approach to understand how to design and build with steel from the perspective of its architectural applications. Steel is a material whose qualities have enormous potential for the creation of dynamic architecture. In an innovative approach to the reality of working with steel, the book takes a new look both at the state of tried-and-tested techniques and at emerging projects. Hundreds of steel structures have been observed, analyzed and appraised for this book. In-depth construction photographs by the author are complemented by technical illustrations created to look more closely at systems and details. Drawings supplied by fabricators allow greater insight into a method of working with currrent digital drawing tools.; Das Gestalten und Bauen mit Stahl aus den Anwendungen in der Architektur heraus neu verstehen - so lautet das Prinzip dieser Grundlegung für einen der wichtigsten Bereiche des Entwerfens und Konstruierens. Aus einem Fundus von hunderten Stahlbauten, deren Entstehung verfolgt, analysiert und mit langjähriger Erfahrung in Lehre und Fortbildung aufgearbeitet wurde, entstand ein Werk, das einen anderen Zugang zur Realität des Arbeitens mit Stahl eröffnet: einen neuen Blick auf den erprobten Stand der Dinge und ebenso auf zukünftige Potenziale, wie sie sich heute in avancierten Projekten über alle Länder- und Normengrenzen hinaus abzeichnen. Das Buch behandelt die klassischen Themen, Probleme und Lösungen von Material und Baumethoden, Tragwerk und Hülle, Elementen und Verbindungen, Brandschutz und Nachhaltigkeit usw. Besondere Beachtung finden das Zusammenspiel mit anderen Materialien wie Glas und Holz, Anforderungen an unverkleidete Stahlkonstruktionen sowie anspruchsvolle Tragwerkslösungen (Diagrids). Konkret und anschaulich werden die Aussagen anhand ausgeführter Lösungen getroffen. Dieser nutzerorientierten Haltung entspricht eine adäquate Form der Darstellung: statt Text- und Bildebene zu trennen, bilden Text, Bildlegeniden, Fotos und Zeichnungen gleichberechtigt und eng aufeinander bezogen den kontinuierlichen Zusammenhang des einzelnen Kapitels. Unterstrichen wird das Leitprinzip von Stahl verstehen von eigens angefertigten, aufwendigen Schemazeichnungen, die den Aufbau und die Funktionsweisen der Konstruktionen anschaulich werden lassen. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -I Die erste Fundierung der klassischen (Starrkörper-)Mechanik durch.- A Die Starrkörpermechanik in Newtons Principia.- B Der Impuls- und Momentensatz von Leonhard Euler.- C Das Prinzip von d'Alembert.- II Streitfragen und die Weiterentwicklung der mechanischen Prinzipien vom 17. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert.- A Der philosophische Streit um 'das wahre Kraftmaß' im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert.- B Der Prioritätsstreit um das Prinzip der kleinsten Aktion an der Berliner Akademie im 18. Jahrhundert.- C Variationsrechnung und Mechanik.- D Die Variationsprinzipien der Mechanik aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.- III Geschichte der Mechanik der Fluide.- A Die Anfänge der Hydromechanik.- B Über die sogenannte Bernoullische Gleichung der Hydromechanik; die Stromfadentheorie Daniel und Johann Bernoullis.- C Die Anfänge der äußeren Ballistik.- D Der weitere Ausbau der Hydromechanik durch Clairaut, d'Alembert und Euler.- E Die Vollendung der klassischen Hydromechanik durch Leonhard Euler.- F Geschichte der Theorie der zähen Flüssigkeiten.- G Geschichte der Gasdynamik.- IV Geschichte der linearen Elastizitätstheorie homogener und isotroper Materialien.- A Geschichte der Theorie der schwingenden Saite.- B Die Balkentheorie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert.- C Die Vollendung der Balkentheorie durch Navier und die Einführung des Spannungstensors durch Cauchy.- D Geschichte der Plattentheorie.- V Geschichte der Stoßtheorie.- A Die Anfänge der Stoßtheorie.- B Geschichte der Theorie des elastischen Stoßes.- A Die Kettenlinie, das Pendel und die 'Brachistochrone' bei Galilei.- 1 Einleitende Bemerkungen.- 2 Die Kettenlinie.- 3 Das Pendel.- 4 Die 'Brachistochrone' bei Galilei.- B Über das Mariotte-Leibnizsche Pendelproblem.- 1 Einleitung.- 2 Leibniz' Lösung desMariotteschen Problems.- 3 Zur Kinetik des Mariotte-Leibnizschen Pendels.- 4 Iterative Näherungslösungen.- 5 Näherungslösung nach Runge-Kutta.- C Über das d'Alembertsche Paradoxon.- 1 Zur Einleitung.- 2 D'Alemberts Theorie des Bewegungswiderstandes.- 3 Das Eulersche Paradoxon.- 4 Abschließende Bemerkungen.- D Bemerkungen zur Literatur über Galileo Galilei.- 1 Zur Einleitung.- 2 Eugen Dühring.- 3 Wohlwill, Olschki, Dijksterhuis und andere.- 4 Abschließende Bemerkungen.- Nekrolog auf Istvän Szabo.- Verzeichnis der Aufsätze von Istvän Szabo zur Geschichte der Mechanik und der angewandten Mathematik.- 1 Einleitende Bemerkungen.- 2 Verzeichnis.- Namenregister.- Übersicht über die in diesem Buch abgebildeten Wissenschaftler. 628 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These notes are based on lectures given in the semmar on 'Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry' held at Schloss Mickeln, Diisseldorf, November 16-21, 1987. In 1982 Tsfasman, Vladut and Zink, using algebraic geometry and ideas of Goppa, constructed a seqeunce of codes that exceed the Gilbert-Varshamov bound. The result was considered sensational. Furthermore, it was surprising to see these unrelated areas of mathematics collaborating. The aim of this course is to give an introduction to coding theory and to sketch the ideas of algebraic geometry that led to the new result. Finally, a number of applications of these methods of algebraic geometry to coding theory are given. Since this is a new area, there are presently no references where one can find a more extensive treatment of all the material. However, both for algebraic geometry and for coding theory excellent textbooks are available. The combination ofthe two subjects can only be found in a number ofsurvey papers. A book by C. Moreno with a complete treatment of this area is in preparation. We hope that these notes will stimulate further research and collaboration of algebraic geometers and coding theorists. G. van der Geer, J.H. van Lint Introduction to CodingTheory and Algebraic Geometry PartI -- CodingTheory Jacobus H. vanLint 11 1. Finite fields In this chapter we collect (without proof) the facts from the theory of finite fields that we shall need in this course. 85 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Bochner-Martinelli integral representation for holomorphic functions or'sev eral complex variables (which has already become classical) appeared in the works of Martinelli and Bochner at the beginning of the 1940's. It was the first essen tially multidimensional representation in which the integration takes place over the whole boundary of the domain. This integral representation has a universal 1 kernel (not depending on the form of the domain), like the Cauchy kernel in e . However, in en when n 1, the Bochner-Martinelli kernel is harmonic, but not holomorphic. For a long time, this circumstance prevented the wide application of the Bochner-Martinelli integral in multidimensional complex analysis. Martinelli and Bochner used their representation to prove the theorem of Hartogs (Osgood Brown) on removability of compact singularities of holomorphic functions in en when n 1. In the 1950's and 1960's, only isolated works appeared that studied the boundary behavior of Bochner-Martinelli (type) integrals by analogy with Cauchy (type) integrals. This study was based on the Bochner-Martinelli integral being the sum of a double-layer potential and the tangential derivative of a single-layer potential. Therefore the Bochner-Martinelli integral has a jump that agrees with the integrand, but it behaves like the Cauchy integral under approach to the boundary, that is, somewhat worse than the double-layer potential. Thus, the Bochner-Martinelli integral combines properties of the Cauchy integral and the double-layer potential. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In 1931 Erwin Schrödinger considered the following problem: A huge cloud of independent and identical particles with known dynamics is supposed to be observed at finite initial and final times. What is the 'most probable' state of the cloud at intermediate times The present book provides a general yet comprehensive discourse on Schrödinger's question. Key roles in this investigation are played by conditional diffusion processes, pairs of non-linear integral equations and interacting particles systems. The introductory first chapter gives some historical background, presents the main ideas in a rather simple discrete setting and reveals the meaning of intermediate prediction to quantum mechanics. In order to answer Schrödinger's question, the book takes three distinct approaches, dealt with in separate chapters: transformation by means of a multiplicative functional, projection by means of relative entropy, and variation of a functional associated to pairs of non-linear integral equations. The book presumes a graduate level of knowledge in mathematics or physics and represents a relevant and demanding application of today's advanced probability theory. 186 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -to Classical Complex Analysis Vol. 1 by Robert B. Burckel Kansas State University 1979 BIRKHAUSER VERLAG BASEL UND STUTTGART CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Burckel, Robert B.: An introduction to classical complex analysis I by Robert B. Burckel. - Basel. Stuttgart: Birkhiiuser. Vol. I. - 1979. (Lehrbilcher und Monographien aus dem Gebiete der exakten Wissenschaften: Math. Reihe; Bd. 64) All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner. Birkhiiuser Verlag Basel, 1979 North and South America Edition published by ACADEMIC PRESS. INC. III Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (Pure and Applied Mathematics, A Series of Monographs and Textbooks, Volume 82) ISBN-13: 978-3-0348-9376-3 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-0348-9374-9 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-0348-9374-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-67403 5 Contents Volume I PREFACE 9 Chapter 0 PREREQUISITES AND PRELIMINARIES 13 1 Set Theory 13 2 Algebra 14 3 The Battlefield 14 4 Metric Spaces 15 5 Limsup and All That 18 6 Continuous Functions 20 7 Calculus 21 Chapter I CURVES, CONNECTEDNESS AND CONVEXITY 22 1 Elementary Results on Connectedness 22 2 Connectedness of Intervals, Curves and Convex Sets 23 3 The Basic Connectedness Lemma 28 4 Components and Compact Exhaustions 29 5 Connectivity of a Set 33 6 Extension Theorems 37 Notes to Chapter I 39 558 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The representation theory of Lie groups plays a central role in both clas sical and recent developments in many parts of mathematics and physics. In August, 1995, the Fifth Workshop on Representation Theory of Lie Groups and its Applications took place at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in Argentina. Organized by Joseph Wolf, Nolan Wallach, Roberto Miatello, Juan Tirao, and Jorge Vargas, the workshop offered expository courses on current research, and individual lectures on more specialized topics. The present vol ume reflects the dual character of the workshop. Many of the articles will be accessible to graduate students and others entering the field. Here is a rough outline of the mathematical content. (The editors beg the indulgence of the readers for any lapses in this preface in the high standards of historical and mathematical accuracy that were imposed on the authors of the articles. ) Connections between flag varieties and representation theory for real re ductive groups have been studied for almost fifty years, from the work of Gelfand and Naimark on principal series representations to that of Beilinson and Bernstein on localization. The article of Wolf provides a detailed introduc tion to the analytic side of these developments. He describes the construction of standard tempered representations in terms of square-integrable partially harmonic forms (on certain real group orbits on a flag variety), and outlines the ingredients in the Plancherel formula. Finally, he describes recent work on the complex geometry of real group orbits on partial flag varieties. 340 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 1988 Seminar on Stochastic Processes was held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, March 3 through March 5, 1988. It was the eighth seminar in a continuing series of meetings which provide opportunities for researchers to discuss current work in stochastic processes in an informal and enjoyable atmosphere. Previous seminars were held at Princeton University, Northwestern University, the University of Florida and the University of Virginia. The participants' enthusiasm and interest have created stimulating and successful seminars. We thank those participants who have permitted us to publish their research in this volume. This year's invited participants included B. Atkinson, J. Azema, D. Bakry, P. Baxendale, J. Brooks, G. Brosamler, K. Burdzy, E. Cinlar, R. Darling, N. Dinculeanu, E. Dynkin, S. Evans, N. Falkner, P. Fitzsimmons, R. Getoor, J. Glover, V. Goodman, P. Hsu, J.-F. Le Gall, M. Liao, P. March, P. McGill, J. Mitro, T. Mountford, C. Mueller, A. Mukherjea, V. Papanicolaou, E. Perkins, M. Pinsky, L. Pitt, A. O. Pittenger, Z. Pop-Stojanovic, M. Rao, J. Rosen, T. Salisbury, C. Shih, M. Taksar, J. Taylor, S. J. Taylor, E. Toby, R. Williams, Wu Rong, and Z. Zhao. The seminar was made possible through the generous support of the Department of Mathematics, the Center for Applied Mathematics, the Division of Sponsored Research and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Florida. We extend our thanks for local arrangements to our host, Zoran Pop-Stojanovic. 1. G. 260 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the late eighties large-scale control operations were carried out to control a major desert locust upsurge in Africa. For the first time since the banning of organochlorine pesticides these operations relied mainly on non-persistent pesticides such as organophosphates and pyrethroids. The amount of pesticides sprayed and the area covered were probably the highest in the history of locust control and raised criticism with respect to efficacy, economic viability and environmental impact. As a consequence, applied research into the problem was intensified, both at the national and the international level, with the goal of finding new and environmentally sound approaches and solutions to locust and grasshopper control. Emphasis was laid on developing new control agents and techniques. 552 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Boundary value problems for elliptic differential-difference equations have some astonishing properties. For example, unlike elliptic differential equations, the smoothness of the generalized solutions can be broken in a bounded domain and is preserved only in some subdomains. The symbol of a self-adjoint semibounded functional differential operator can change its sign. The purpose of this book is to present for the first time general results concerning solvability and spectrum of these problems, a priori estimates and smoothness of solutions. The approach is based on the properties of elliptic operators and difference operators in Sobolev spaces. The most important features distinguishing this work are applications to different fields of science. The methods in this book are used to obtain new results regarding the solvability of nonlocal elliptic boundary value problems and the existence of Feller semigroups for multidimensional diffusion processes. Moreover, applications to control theory and aircraft and rocket technology are given. The theory is illustrated with numerous figures and examples. The book is addresssed to graduate students and researchers in partial differential equations and functional differential equations. It will also be of use to engineers in control theory and elasticity theory. 308 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Ever since its introduction around 1960 by Kirillov, the orbit method has played a major role in representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. This book contains the proceedings of a conference held from August 29 to September 2, 1988, at the University of Copenhagen, about 'the orbit method in representation theory.' It contains ten articles, most of which are original research papers, by well-known mathematicians in the field, and it reflects the fact that the orbit method plays an important role in the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups, solvable Lie groups, and even more general Lie groups, and also in the theory of enveloping algebras. 244 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains a collection of essays by selected authors who are active in the field of blood substitutes research or closely allied disciplines. These essays were delivered as lectures by the authors at the second annual 'Current Issues in Blood Substitute Research and Development - 1995' course sponsored jointly by the Departments of Medicine and Bioengineer ing, University of California, San Diego, the National Institutes of Health (NHLBI), and the U.S. Army on March 30, 31, and April 1, 1995 in San Diego. This course had three goals: to present fundaniental discussions of scientific issues critical to further development of artificial oxygen carriers, to provide academicians a forum to discuss their current research, and to provide the companies involved in developing products the opportunity to update the audience on their progress. The organization owes much to the solicited comments of the attendees of the 1994 course. We would like especially to thank the U.S. Army, particularly through the efforts of COL John Hess, who provided significant funding to make publication of this volume possible. In addition, a number of the participating companies provided additional financial support to offset the costs of the course. These include Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp., Hemosol, Nippon Oil and Fat, Northfield Laboratories, and Ortho Biotech. 220 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1. The Subject Matter. Consider a complex semisimple Lie group G with Lie algebra g and Weyl group W. In this book, we present a geometric perspective on the following circle of ideas: polynomials The 'vertices' of this graph are some of the most important objects in representation theory. Each has a theory in its own right, and each has had its own independent historical development. - A nilpotent orbit is an orbit of the adjoint action of G on g which contains the zero element of g in its closure. (For the special linear group 2 G = SL(n,C), whose Lie algebra 9 is all n x n matrices with trace zero, an adjoint orbit consists of all matrices with a given Jordan canonical form; such an orbit is nilpotent if the Jordan form has only zeros on the diagonal. In this case, the nilpotent orbits are classified by partitions of n, given by the sizes of the Jordan blocks.) The closures of the nilpotent orbits are singular in general, and understanding their singularities is an important problem. - The classification of irreducible Weyl group representations is quite old. 148 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -During the last few decades, the subject of potential theory has not been overly popular in the mathematics community. Neglected in favor of more abstract theories, it has been taught primarily where instructors have ac tively engaged in research in this field. This situation has resulted in a scarcity of English language books of standard shape, size, and quality covering potential theory. The current book attempts to fill that gap in the literature. Since the rapid development of high-speed computers, the remarkable progress in highly advanced electronic measurement concepts, and, most of all, the significant impact of satellite technology, the flame of interest in potential theory has burned much brighter. The realization that more and more details of potential functions are adequately visualized by 'zooming in' procedures of modern approximation theory has added powerful fuel to the flame. It seems as if, all of a sudden, harmonic kernel functions such as splines and/or wavelets provide the impetus to offer appropriate means of assimilating and assessing the readily increasing flow of potential data, reducing it to comprehensible form, and providing an objective basis for scientific interpretation, classification, testing of concepts, and solutions of problems involving the Laplace operator. 532 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Finsler's papers on set theory are presented, here for the first time in English translation, in three parts, and each is preceded by an introduction to the field written by the editors. In the philosophical part of his work Finsler develops his approach to the paradoxes, his attitude toward formalized theories and his defense of Platonism in mathematics. He insisted on the existence of a conceptual realm within mathematics that transcends formal systems. From the foundational point of view, Finsler's set theory contains a strengthened criterion for set identity and a coinductive specification of the universe of sets. The notion of the class of circle free sets introduced by Finsler is potentially a very fertile one although not very widespread today. Combinatorially, Finsler considers sets as generalized numbers to which one may apply arithmetical techniques. The introduction to this third section of the book extends Finsler's theory to non-well-founded sets. The present volume makes Finsler's papers on set theory accessible at long last to a wider group of mathematicians, philosophers and historians of science. A technical background is not necessary to appreciate the satisfying interplay of philosophical and mathematical ideas that characterizes this work. 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Reprint from GAFA, Vol. 5 (1995), No. 2. Enlarged by a short biography of Mikhail Gromov and a list of publications. In the last decades of the XX century tremendous progress has been achieved in geometry. The discovery of deep interrelations between geometry and other fields including algebra, analysis and topology has pushed it into the mainstream of modern mathematics. This Special Issue of Geometric And Functional Analysis (GAFA) in honour of Mikhail Gromov contains 14 papers which give a wide panorama of recent fundamental developments in modern geometry and its related subjects. CONTRIBUTORS: J. Bourgain, J. Cheeger, J. Cogdell, A. Connes, Y. Eliashberg, H. Hofer, F. Lalonde, W. Luo, G. Margulis, D. McDuff, H. Moscovici, G. Mostow, S. Novikov, G. Perelman, I. Piatetski-Shapiro, G. Pisier, X. Rong, Z. Rudnick, D. Salamon, P. Sarnak, R. Schoen, M. Shubin, K. Wysocki, and E. Zehnder. The book is a collection of important results and an enduring source of new ideas for researchers and students in a broad spectrum of directions related to all aspects of Geometry and its applications to Functional Analysis, PDE, Analytic Number Theory and Physics. 444 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Concern with the class of problems investigated in this monograph began for me as a graduate student at MIT (1958-62) when serving as research assistant to Professor Eric Reissner who initiated me into the subject and whose influence - whether directly or dialectically - is probably discernable in the contours of the work. My fIrst attempt at a systematic derivation of the equations of shell theory was made while on a summer assistantship with Professor Norman Levinson in 1960. Beyond gaining a sobering reali zation of the complexities involved, I made little progress at that time. In 1962-64 while a Temporary Member at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) I made a fresh start, while benefIting from my association and discus sions with Professor Fritz John. With the conviction that the full integration of the equations with respect to the thickness coordinate, by means of the Legendre repre sentations, must lead to a clarifIcation of the position of the two-dimensional theory in its three-dimensional context, the necessary computations were completed during that period. Several years passed while I became reconciled with the thought that the material needed to be organized as a monograph. This was done during 1969-70 while at the NASA Electronics Research Center in Cambridge, MA. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -. there is nothing so enthralling, so grandiose, nothing that stuns or captivates the human soul quite so much as a first course in a science. After the first five or six lectures one already holds the brightest hopes, already sees oneself as a seeker after truth. I too have wholeheartedly pursued science passionately, as one would a beloved woman. I was a slave, and sought no other sun in my life. Day and night I crammed myself, bending my back, ruining myself over my books; I wept when I beheld others exploiting science fot personal gain. But I was not long enthralled. The truth is every science has a beginning, but never an end - they go on for ever like periodic fractions. Zoology, for example, has discovered thirty-five thousand forms of life . A. P. Chekhov. 'On the road' In this book a start is made to the 'zoology' of the singularities of differentiable maps. This theory is a young branch of analysis which currently occupies a central place in mathematics; it is the crossroads of paths leading from very abstract corners of mathematics (such as algebraic and differential geometry and topology, Lie groups and algebras, complex manifolds, commutative algebra and the like) to the most applied areas (such as differential equations and dynamical systems, optimal control, the theory of bifurcations and catastrophes, short-wave and saddle-point asymptotics and geometrical and wave optics). 396 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The theoretical foundation for real options goes back to the mid 1980sand the development of a model that forms the basis for many currentapplications of real option theory. Over the last decade the theoryhas rapidly expanded and become enriched thanks to increasing researchactivity. Modern real option theory may be used for the valuation ofentire companies as well as for particular investment projects in thepresence of uncertainty. As such, the theory of real options can serveas a tool for more practically oriented decision making, providingmanagement with strategies maximizing its capital market value.This book is devoted to examining a new framework for classifying realoptions from a management and a valuation perspective, giving theadvantages and disadvantages of the real option approach. Impulsecontrol theory and the theory of optimal stopping combined withmethods of mathematical finance are used to construct arbitrarilycomplex real option models which can be solved numerically and whichyield optimal capital market strategies and values. Various examplesare given to demonstrate the potential of this framework.This work will benefit the financial community, companies, as well asacademics in mathematical finance by providing an important extensionof real option research from both a theoretical and practical point ofview. 288 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Distributions in the Physical and Engineering Sciences is a comprehensive exposition on analytic methods for solving science and engineering problems which is written from the unifying viewpoint of distribution theory and enriched with many modern topics which are important to practioners and researchers. The goal of the book is to give the reader, specialist and non-specialist useable and modern mathematical tools in their research and analysis. This new text is intended for graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. The careful explanations, accessible writing style, and many illustrations/examples also make it suitable for use as a self-study reference by anyone seeking greater understanding and proficiency in the problem solving methods presented. The book is ideal for a general scientific and engineering audience, yet it is mathematically precise. 360 pp. Englisch.…

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -5 The Mathematical Theory of Iterative Methods.- 5.1 Several results from functional analysis.- 5.1.1 Linear spaces.- 5.1.2 Operators in linear normed spaces.- 5.1.3 Operators in a Hilbert space.- 5.1.4 Functions of a bounded operator.- 5.1.5 Operators in a finite-dimensional space.- 5.1.6 The solubility of operator equations.- 5.2 Difference schemes as operator equations.- 5.2.1 Examples of grid-function spaces.- 5.2.2 Several difference identities.- 5.2.3 Bounds for the simplest difference operators.- 5.2.4 Lower bounds for certain difference operators.- 5.2.5 Upper bounds for difference operators.- 5.2.6 Difference schemes as operator equations in abstract spaces.- 5.2.7 Difference schemes for elliptic equations with constant coefficients.- 5.2.8 Equations with variable coefficients and with mixed derivatives.- 5.3 Basic concepts from the theory of iterative methods.- 5.3.1 The steady state method.- 5.3.2 Iterative schemes.- 5.3.3 Convergence and iteration counts.- 5.3.4 Classification of iterative methods.- 6 Two-Level Iterative Methods.- 6.1 Choosing the iterative parameters.- 6.1.1 The initial family of iterative schemes.- 6.1.2 The problem for the error.- 6.1.3 The self-adjoint case.- 6.2 The Chebyshev two-level method.- 6.2.1 Construction of the set of iterative parameters.- 6.2.2 On the optimality of the a priori estimate.- 6.2.3 Sample choices for the operator D.- 6.2.4 On the computational stability of the method.- 6.2.5 Construction of the optimal sequence of iterative parameters.- 6.3 The simple iteration method.- 6.3.1 The choice of the iterative parameter.- 6.3.2 An estimate for the norm of the transformation operator.- 6.4 The non-self-adjoint case. The simple iteration method.- 6.4.1 Statement of the problem.- 6.4.2 Minimizing the norm of the transformation operator.- 6.4.3 Minimizing the norm of the resolving operator.- 6.4.4 The symmetrization method.- 6.5 Sample applications of the iterative methods.- 6.5.1 A Dirichlet difference problem for Poisson¿s equation in a rectangle.- 6.5.2 A Dirichlet difference problem for Poisson¿s equation in an arbitrary region.- 6.5.3 A Dirichlet difference problem for an elliptic equation with variable coefficients.- 6.5.4 A Dirichlet difference problem for an elliptic equation with mixed derivatives.- 7 Three-Level Iterative Methods.- 7.1 An estimate of the convergence rate.- 7.1.1 The basic family of iterative schemes.- 7.1.2 An estimate for the norm of the error.- 7.2 The Chebyshev semi-iterative method.- 7.2.1 Formulas for the iterative parameters.- 7.2.2 Sample choices for the operator D.- 7.2.3 The algorithm of the method.- 7.3 The stationary three-level method.- 7.3.1 The choice of the iterative parameters.- 7.3.2 An estimate for the rate of convergence.- 7.4 The stability of two-level and three-level methods relative to a priori data.- 7.4.1 Statement of the problem.- 7.4.2 Estimates for the convergence rates of the methods.- 8 Iterative Methods of Variational Type.- 8.1 Two-level gradient methods.- 8.1.1 The choice of the iterative parameters.- 8.1.2 A formula for the iterative parameters.- 8.1.3 An estimate of the convergence rate.- 8.1.4 Optimality of the estimate in the self-adjoint case.- 8.1.5 An asymptotic property of the gradient methods in the self-adjoint case.- 8.2 Examples of two-level gradient methods.- 8.2.1 The steepest-descent method.- 8.2.2 The minimal residual method.- 8.2.3 The minimal correction method.- 8.2.4 The minimal error method.- 8.2.5 A sample application of two-level methods.- 8.3 Three-level conjugate-direction methods.- 8.3.1 The choice of the iterative parameters. An estimate of the convergence rate.- 8.3.2 Formulas for the iterative parameters. The three-level iterative scheme.- 8.3.3 Variants of the computational formulas.- 8.4 Examples of the three-level methods.- 8.4.1 Special cases of the conjugate-direction methods.- 8.4.2 Locally optimal three-level methods.- 8.5 Accelerating the convergence of two-level methods in the self-adjoint case.- 8.5.1 An algorithm for the acceleration process.- 8.5.2 An estimate of the effectiveness.- 8.5.3 An example.- 9 Triangular Iterative Methods.- 9.1 The Gauss-Seidel method.- 9.1.1 The iterative scheme for the method.- 9.1.2 Sample applications of the method.- 9.1.3 Sufficient conditions for convergence.- 9.2 The successive over-relaxation method.- 9.2.1 The iterative scheme. Sufficient conditions for covergence.- 9.2.2 The choice of the iterative parameter.- 9.2.3 An estimate of the spectral radius.- 9.2.4 A Dirichlet difference problem for Poisson¿s equation in a rectangle.- 9.2.5 A Dirichlet difference problem for an elliptic equation with variable coefficients.- 9.3 Triangular methods.- 9.3.1 The iterative scheme.- 9.3.2 An estimate of the convergence rate.- 9.3.3 The choice of the iterative parameter.- 9.3.4 An estimate for the convergence rates of the Gauss-Seidel and relaxation methods.- 10 The Alternate-Triangular Method.- 10.1 The general theory of the method.- 10.1.1 The iterative scheme.- 10.1.2 Choice of the iterative parameters.- 10.1.3 A method for finding and .- 10.1.4 A Dirichlet difference problem for Poisson¿s equation in a rectangle.- 10.2 Boundary-value difference problems for elliptic equations in a rectangle.- 10.2.1 A Dirichlet problem for an equation with variable coefficients.- 10.2.2 A modified alternate-triangular method.- 10.2.3 A comparison of the variants of the method.- 10.2.4 A boundary-value problem of the third kind.- 10.2.5 A Dirichlet difference problem for an equation with mixed derivatives.- 10.3 The alternate-triangular method for elliptic equations in arbitrary regions.- 10.3.1 The statement of the difference problem.- 10.3.2 The construction of an alternate-triangular method.- 10.3.3 A Dirichlet problem for Poisson¿s equation in an arbitrary region.- 11 The Alternating-Directions Method.- 11.1 The alternating-directions method in the commutative cas. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Table of contents: Plenary Lectures V.I. Arnold: The Vassiliev Theory of Discriminants and Knots L. Babai: Transparent Proofs and Limits to Approximation C. De Concini: Poisson Algebraic Groups and Representations of Quantum Groups at Roots of 1 S.K. Donaldson: Gauge Theory and Four-Manifold Topology W. Müller: Spectral Theory and Geometry D. Mumford: Pattern Theory: A Unifying Perspective A.-S. Sznitman: Brownian Motion and Obstacles M. Vergne: Geometric Quantization and Equivariant Cohomology Parallel Lectures Z. Adamowicz: The Power of Exponentiation in Arithmetic A. Björner: Subspace Arrangements B. Bojanov: Optimal Recovery of Functions and Integrals J.-M. Bony: Existence globale et diffusion pour les modèles discrets R.E. Borcherds: Sporadic Groups and String Theory J. Bourgain: A Harmonic Analysis Approach to Problems in Nonlinear Partial Differatial Equations F. Catanese: (Some) Old and New Results on Algebraic Surfaces Ch. Deninger: Evidence for a Cohomological Approach to Analytic Number Theory S. Dostoglou and D.A. Salamon: Cauchy-Riemann Operators, Self-Duality, and the Spectral Flow 545 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the sixth published volume of the Israel Seminar on Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis. The previous volumes are 1983-84 published privately by Tel Aviv University 1985-86 Springer Lecture Notes, Vol. 1267 1986-87 Springer Lecture Notes, Vol. 1317 1987-88 Springer Lecture Notes, Vol. 1376 1989-90 Springer Lecture Notes, Vol. 1469 As in the previous vC!lumes the central subject of -this volume is Banach space theory in its various aspects. In view of the spectacular development in infinite-dimensional Banach space theory in recent years (like the solution of the hyperplane problem, the unconditional basic sequence problem and the distortion problem in Hilbert space) it is quite natural that the present volume contains substantially more contributions in this direction than the previous volumes. This volume also contains many important contributions in the 'traditional directions' of this seminar such as probabilistic methods in functional analysis, non-linear theory, harmonic analysis and especially the local theory of Banach spaces and its connection to classical convexity theory in IRn. The papers in this volume are original research papers and include an invited survey by Alexander Olevskii of Kolmogorov's work on Fourier analysis (which was presented at a special meeting on the occasion of the 90th birthday of A. N. Kol mogorov). We are very grateful to Mrs. M. Hercberg for her generous help in many directions, which made the publication of this volume possible. Joram Lindenstrauss, Vitali Milman 1992-1994 Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 356 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Central to this collection of papers are new developments in the general theory of localization of spaces. This field has undergone tremendous change of late and is yielding new insight into the mysteries of classical homotopy theory. The present volume comprises the refereed articles submitted at the Conference on Algebraic Topology held in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, in June 1994. Several comprehensive articles on general localization clarify the basic tools and give a report on the state of the art in the subject matter. The text is therefore accessible not only to the professional mathematician but also to the advanced student. 424 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Building on the existing titles in the 'Airways Smooth Muscle' sub-series, the sixth volume explores physiological and pharmacological processes in the lung in vivo. The various animal models available for studying the bronchospasm and inflammation associated with human asthma are thoroughly reviewed by internationally recognised scientists. Specific chapters focus on the problems of administering drugs to animal airways, the mechanics of assessing lung function in the models, and describe in detail the species used, from rodents to primates. The use of genetically altered animals, an area of particular interest to molecular biologists, is also considered in depth. This up-to-date and extensively referenced work will prove invaluable to pharmacologists, physiologists and other biological scientists at all levels in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry. 300 pp. Englisch.…