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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The last 30 years have seen little improvement in the age-adjusted mortality rates for most common types of cancer, and until we develop more effective and less damaging treatment modalities for these tumours, selection of each patient's treatment must depend on prognostic pointers. These lead to a calculated trade off between our estimate of likely benefit to the patient, as against cost in terms of quality of life. But changes have occurred recently in our understanding of the traditional prognostic pointers used for selecting such individualised treatment. First, it is increasingly recognised that the stage at which a tumour presents is more related to the chromo logical age of the tumour (how far it has progressed before diagnosis) than to its biological characteristics. While advanced chronological age of the tumour may predict a greater likelihood of early death, only biological criteria can predict the tumour growth rate, the likelihood of prolonged survival, the likely course of the disease after the first recurrence or the likehood of response to systemic therapy. Second, there is increasing use of failure analysis in relating the clinical and biological characteristics of tumours to their response to standard treatments. In the past, the relationship was interpreted mainly in terms of survival rate, but the site and timing of first recurrence and the pattern and timing of subsequent spread provide a better assessment of the control possible from local or systemic therapy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The official death rates from suicide vary considerably between countries in the world for which data are available. They range from 3 to 45 persons a year, per 100,000 of population. Historically, the higher rates of suicide are in the older age groups and in males. However, the general trend in the last twenty years has been for suicide increasing in the younger age groups (15-34) and in femah;s. It has been suggested that thi~ development is related to the phenomenon of attempted suicide, of which the rates in most industrialized countries have doubled and in some countries even tripled over the past two decades. The average rate of attempted suicide is now estimated to be around 200 per 100,000 for males and 350 for females. Almost two-thirds of these occur before the age of thirty. Although the majority of attempted suicide are not intended to be lethal, once a suicide attempt has been made, there is more likelihood of subsequent death by suicide. As many as ten percent of people who have made a previous unsuccessful attempt commit suicide at a later stage in their lives. rersons with increased likelihood to commit suicide are youngsters from disrupted families and from families with a history of suicide, drug and alcohol addiction, those who have failed at school, the unemployed and those suffering from depression.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Peter T. Chinloy and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer I. Background to Adjustments in Labor Markets The book examines the process of adjustment in labor markets across countries arising from external shocks and shifts in international competi tiveness. The examination of specific countries and their data permits a comparison of alternative institutions for compensating and redeploying labor. Four countries are involved, whose labor markets are both competi tive and complementary: Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. Both public labor market institutions, such as direct government com~ pensation of displaced workers and the effect of unemployment insurance, and private market arrangements, such as em loyer-employee agreements on layoffs, the work contract, and severance pay, are considered. Compara tive examination across countries of labor market and related insitutions is thus possible. The book has a common theme, namely the adjustment of labor markets to exogenous shocks, particularly those externally induced. The unifying focus in on workers whose specific skills in an industry or firm render them relatively immobile.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is derived from a Symposium held at the 190th National American Chemical Society Meeting, which was held in the Fall of 1985, in Chicago, and was sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. This Symposium was, in turn, a follow-up on an earlier one held in Houston, TX, in the Spring of 1980, which was pub lished as the book Biomedical and Dental Applications of Polymers [Plenum Press, New York, 1981]. In that earlier book, our opening Preface passage quoted King David, 1 will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and made . -- - (Psalm 139:14). As we noted five years ago, sickness wonderfully of many types does occur in our wonderfully made bodies, but much human suffering can be aided by biomedical polymers. That earlier book con sidered much of the fantastic progress that had been made in biomedical polymers during the previous quarter century and brought many of these topics up to date. That Symposium, and book, noted that much help was available for the varied afflictions and problems that sometimes beset, and upset, our God-given bodies, and the promise of new and important advances was held out as a shining ray of hope amidst the gloom of sickness and affliction. The present volume is an update on the advances that have occurred since the 1981 book and sets the stage for even greater advances in the future.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research in Animal Husbandry, held in Dublin, Ireland, on October 30-31, 1985. Sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General for Agriculture, Division for the Coordination of Agricultural Research.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is indeed ironical that in the absence of a complete knowledge of Pathophysiology, clinical cardiologists are left with no choice but to do the best they can to help the patient with the armamentarium of drugs at their disposal. But nothing could be further from truth than to treat the diagnosed end point of a disease process without a full understanding of its patho physiology. This point was eloquently made by Dr. Arnold Katz in his Presidential Address (Chapter 1) at the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Section of the International Society for Heart Research held in Winnipeg, Canada, July 8-11, 1986. This volume represents a part of the scientific proceedings of this Meeting. From a reading of this treatise it will become evident that discoveries of newer scientific facts as well as a better understanding of pathophysiology are continuously influencing/ improving our therapeutic approaches in modern medicine. In this book, latest biochemical, physiological and pharmacological findings on different experimental models such as Myocaridal hypertrophy, Hypertension and heart failure, Diabetes, Cardio myopathies and Cardiac function in shock are described by internationally recognised experts. Hopefully information presented here will provide another building block to the edifice of Science of Cardiology which we all are trying to create. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following Agencies and Foundations for their generous financial support of the Symposium, which formed the basis of this book. A. Major Contributors: 1. Manitoba Heart Foundation 2. Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute 3. Squibb Canada, Inc.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The importance of heart and artery disease as a cause of death and disability is difficult to exaggerate: it causes over half of all deaths in the western world and now accounts for one-quarter of deaths in the entire world. This appalling incidence persists in spite of commendable progress in treatment and prevention, particularly in the last two or three decades. Deaths from coronary disease have decreased by a third in the past twenty years and stroke has decreased by a half in the same period. This remarkable improvement, saving thousands of lives per year, has come about due to changes in life style (low fat diet, control of high blood pressure, less smoking and more exercise) and progress in treatment (more effective drugs, coronary care units, pacemakers, and cardiac surgery). Progress in understanding the pathophysiologic and pharn,acologic mechanisms operative in heart disease have been paramount in the development of more rational and more effective therapy. Dramatic and spectacular surgical treatments have fired the public imagination. Bypass surgery is commonplace and results in complete or considerable relief of symptoms in the majority of patients operated upon.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the course of the last two decades, it has become increasingly evident that the sarcolemmal, sarcoplasmic reticular and mitochondrial membrane systems play an important role in determining the status of heart funotion in health and disease. These organelles have been shown to be intimately involved in the regulation of cation movements during the contraotion-relaxation cycle. Various proteins imbedded in the phospholipid 2+ + - + + bilayers of these membranes control Ca ,Na, Cl ,K and H concentrations within the oytoplasm by indirect or direct means. Cationic channels, Na+, + 2+ 2+ 2+ + 2+ + + K -ATPase, Ca IMg ATPase, Ca pump, Na -Ca exchanger, Na -II exchanger and adenylate cyclase affect myocardial funotion and viability through their role as regulators of specific ion movements. However, proteins are not the only important constituents of the membrane. Any disturbance in the interaction between proteins and phospholipids in the membrane has been suggested to alter the funotion of the organelles, upset ionic homeostasis and precipitate the development of abnormalities in oardiac performance. It is, therefore, orucial to understand the faotors whioh regulate membrane funotion in their totality if we are to oomprehend the nature of heart performanoe in healthy subjects. Similarly, the study of membrane dysfunotion in a wide variety of experimental models of heart disease at various stages of failure is essential if we are to fully understand the pathogenesis of heart dysfunotion and improve its treatment.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Set theoretic foundations.- General criteria and their applications.- Structural properties of families.- Miscellaneous theorems on marriages. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Models and equality for logical programming.- Fifth generation computer project: Current research activity and future plans.- A compositive abstraction algorithm for combinatory logic.- Linear logic and lazy computation.- The natural dynamic semantics of mini-Standard ML.- Listlog ¿ A PROLOG extension for list processing.- Intensional negation of logic programs: Examples and implementation techniques.- Improving the execution speed of compiled Prolog with modes, clause selection, and determinism.- Simulation results of a multiprocessor PROLOG architecture based on a distributed and/or graph.- Generating efficient code from strictness annotations.- Hoisting: Lazy evaluation in a cold climate.- Inductive assertion method for logic programs.- Higher order generalization in program derivation.- Implementing algebraically specified abstract data types in an imperative programming language.- A declarative environment for concurrent logic programming.- Or-parallel execution models of Prolog.- Retractions: A functional paradigm for logic programming.- Refined strategies for semantic unification.- Extensional models for polymorphism.- A type discipline for program modules.- Theory and practice of canonical term functors in abstract data type specifications. 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On the complexity of branching programs and decision trees for clique functions.- Average complexity of additive properties for multiway tries: A unified approach.- Longest common factor of two words.- An unification semi-algorithm for intersection type schemes.- Optimal run time optimization proved by a new look at abstract interpretations.- Transformation ordering.- On parametric algebraic specifications with clean error handling.- Toward formal development of programs from algebraic specifications: Implementations revisited.- Finite algebraic specifications of semicomputable data types.- On the semantics of concurrency: Partial orders and transition systems.- CCS without 's.- A fully observational model for infinite behaviours of communicating systems.- SMoLCS-driven concurrent calculi.- Parameterized horn clause specifications: Proof theory and correctness.- Partial composition and recursion of module specifications.- Efficient representation of taxonomies.- Applications of compactness in the Smyth powerdomain of streams.- Characterizing Kripke structures in temporal logic.- Dialogue with a proof system.- Induction principles formalized in the calculus of constructions.- Algebraic semantics. 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A survey of bounds for the zeros of analytic functions obtained by continued fraction methods.- Rational approximation and interpolation of functions by branched continued fractions.- Polynomial condition of Leja.- Branched continued fractions and convergence acceleration problems.- Two-point Pad¿ype and Pad¿pproximants.- Existence of Chebyshev approximations by transformations of powered rationals.- Best Chebyshev rational approximants and poles of functions.- Hyperbolic approximation of meromorphic functions.- Three different approaches to a proof of convergence for Pad¿pproximants.- On the continuity properties of the multivariate Pad¿perator T m,n .- The Marchaud inequality for generalized Moduli of smoothness.- Analytic properties of two-dimensional continued P-fraction expansions with periodical coefficients and their simultaneous Pade-Hermite approximants.- Modification of generalised continued fractions I definition and application to the limit-periodic case.- Convergence acceleration for continued fractions K(an/1), where an .- Perron-Carath¿ory continued fractions.- On approximation of functions by two-dimensional continued fractions.- On the convergence of the multidimensional limit-periodic continued fractions.- Quelques generalisations de la representation de reels par des fractions continues.- Local properties of continued fractions.- A Stieltjes analysis of the K+-p forward elastic amplitude.- Smoothness conditions for Stieltjes measures from Pade approximants.- Exact multisoliton properties of rational approximants to the iterated solution of nonlinear evolution equations.- Application of rational approximations to some functional equations.- Operator rational functions and variational methods for the model operator.- The generalized Schur algorithm for the superfast solution of Toeplitz systems.- Strong unicity in nonlinear approximation. 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Towards a theory of relativizations: Positive relativizations.- Natural semantics.- On local routing of two-terminal nets.- Geometric relations among Voronoi diagrams.- Finding the largest empty rectangle on a grated surface.- Efficient graph algorithms using limited communication on a fixed-size array of processors.- On selecting the largest element in spite of erroneous information.- The correlation between the complexities of the non-hierarchical and hierarchical versions of graph problems.- Graph isomorphism is in the low hierarchy.- A hierarchy theorem for almost everywhere complex sets with application to polynomial complexity degrees.- Self-reducibility.- Probability one separation of the Boolean hierarchy.- Reversal complexity of multicounter and multihead machines.- Computing the counting function of context-free languages.- On the k-freeness of morphisms on free monoids.- Avoidable patterns on 2 letters.- Polynomial operations on rational languages.- Some structural aspects of hypergraph languages generated by hyperedge replacement.- Specification and implementation of concurrently accessed data structures: An abstract data type approach.- On implementations of loose abstract data type specifications and their vertical composition.- Are homomorphisms sufficient for behavioural implementations of deterministic and nondeterministic data types .- Some remarks on presentations by finite Church-Rosser Thue systems.- Ground term confluence in parametric conditional equational specifications.- Describing semantic domains with sprouts.- Comparing direct and continuation semantics styles for concurrent languages.- Expressibility of first order logic with a nondeterministic inductive operator.- Bounded nondeterminism and the approximation induction principle in process algebra.- The step failure semantics.- On the complexity of containment, equivalence, and reachability for finite and 2-dimensional vector addition systems with states.- Closure properties of deterministic Petri nets.- Some results on fairness: The regular case.- Decidability questions for fairness in Petri nets.- Optimal sorting on multi-dimensionally mesh-connected computers.- On the contact-minimization-problem.- Making distributed spanning tree algorithms fault-resilient.- The derivation of on-the-fly garbage collection algorithms from distributed termination detection protocols.- On the expected complexity of distributed selection.- LPG: A generic, logic and functional programming language.- CEC.- ASSPEGIQUE.- REVEUR4 : A laboratory for conditional rewriting.- An interactive, incremental and portable computer algebra system for -calculus and combinatory logic based on video edition and rewriting techniques.- The Passau RAP System: Rapid prototyping for algebraic specifications.- SPRAC: A software engineering environment.- SLOG: A logic interpreter for equational clauses.- An algebraic transformation system for occam programs.- REVE a rewrite rule laboratory. 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Physical principles of electrets.- Thermally stimulated discharge of electrets.- Radiation-induced charge storage and polarization effects.- Piezo- and pyroelectric properties.- Bioelectrets : Electrets in biomaterials and biopolymers.- Applications.- Recent progress in electret research. 476 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Set theoretic foundations.- General criteria and their applications.- Structural properties of families.- Miscellaneous theorems on marriages.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Avec la collaboration de nombreux experts 220 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This new, revised edition covers all of the basic topics in calculus of several variables, including vectors, curves, functions of several variables, gradient, tangent plane, maxima and minima, potential functions, curve integrals, Green's theorem, multiple integrals, surface integrals, Stokes' theorem, and the inverse mapping theorem and its consequences. It includes many completely worked-out problems. 636 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -A survey of bounds for the zeros of analytic functions obtained by continued fraction methods.- Rational approximation and interpolation of functions by branched continued fractions.- Polynomial condition of Leja.- Branched continued fractions and convergence acceleration problems.- Two-point Pad¿ype and Pad¿pproximants.- Existence of Chebyshev approximations by transformations of powered rationals.- Best Chebyshev rational approximants and poles of functions.- Hyperbolic approximation of meromorphic functions.- Three different approaches to a proof of convergence for Pad¿pproximants.- On the continuity properties of the multivariate Pad¿perator T m,n .- The Marchaud inequality for generalized Moduli of smoothness.- Analytic properties of two-dimensional continued P-fraction expansions with periodical coefficients and their simultaneous Pade-Hermite approximants.- Modification of generalised continued fractions I definition and application to the limit-periodic case.- Convergence acceleration for continued fractions K(an/1), where an .- Perron-Carath¿ory continued fractions.- On approximation of functions by two-dimensional continued fractions.- On the convergence of the multidimensional limit-periodic continued fractions.- Quelques generalisations de la representation de reels par des fractions continues.- Local properties of continued fractions.- A Stieltjes analysis of the K+-p forward elastic amplitude.- Smoothness conditions for Stieltjes measures from Pade approximants.- Exact multisoliton properties of rational approximants to the iterated solution of nonlinear evolution equations.- Application of rational approximations to some functional equations.- Operator rational functions and variational methods for the model operator.- The generalized Schur algorithm for the superfast solution of Toeplitz systems.- Strong unicity in nonlinear approximation.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -On the complexity of branching programs and decision trees for clique functions.- Average complexity of additive properties for multiway tries: A unified approach.- Longest common factor of two words.- An unification semi-algorithm for intersection type schemes.- Optimal run time optimization proved by a new look at abstract interpretations.- Transformation ordering.- On parametric algebraic specifications with clean error handling.- Toward formal development of programs from algebraic specifications: Implementations revisited.- Finite algebraic specifications of semicomputable data types.- On the semantics of concurrency: Partial orders and transition systems.- CCS without 's.- A fully observational model for infinite behaviours of communicating systems.- SMoLCS-driven concurrent calculi.- Parameterized horn clause specifications: Proof theory and correctness.- Partial composition and recursion of module specifications.- Efficient representation of taxonomies.- Applications of compactness in the Smyth powerdomain of streams.- Characterizing Kripke structures in temporal logic.- Dialogue with a proof system.- Induction principles formalized in the calculus of constructions.- Algebraic semantics.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Models and equality for logical programming.- Fifth generation computer project: Current research activity and future plans.- A compositive abstraction algorithm for combinatory logic.- Linear logic and lazy computation.- The natural dynamic semantics of mini-Standard ML.- Listlog - A PROLOG extension for list processing.- Intensional negation of logic programs: Examples and implementation techniques.- Improving the execution speed of compiled Prolog with modes, clause selection, and determinism.- Simulation results of a multiprocessor PROLOG architecture based on a distributed and/or graph.- Generating efficient code from strictness annotations.- Hoisting: Lazy evaluation in a cold climate.- Inductive assertion method for logic programs.- Higher order generalization in program derivation.- Implementing algebraically specified abstract data types in an imperative programming language.- A declarative environment for concurrent logic programming.- Or-parallel execution models of Prolog.- Retractions: A functional paradigm for logic programming.- Refined strategies for semantic unification.- Extensional models for polymorphism.- A type discipline for program modules.- Theory and practice of canonical term functors in abstract data type specifications.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Use of expert systems for control system design.- Indicators of stability, performance and robustness.- The primary indicators for interactive design.- Simple design technique.- Reverse frame alignment design technique.- An observer-based approach to design.- Development of an expert system for multivariable control system design using a systematic design approach.- Conclusions. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Towards a theory of relativizations: Positive relativizations.- Natural semantics.- On local routing of two-terminal nets.- Geometric relations among Voronoi diagrams.- Finding the largest empty rectangle on a grated surface.- Efficient graph algorithms using limited communication on a fixed-size array of processors.- On selecting the largest element in spite of erroneous information.- The correlation between the complexities of the non-hierarchical and hierarchical versions of graph problems.- Graph isomorphism is in the low hierarchy.- A hierarchy theorem for almost everywhere complex sets with application to polynomial complexity degrees.- Self-reducibility.- Probability one separation of the Boolean hierarchy.- Reversal complexity of multicounter and multihead machines.- Computing the counting function of context-free languages.- On the k-freeness of morphisms on free monoids.- Avoidable patterns on 2 letters.- Polynomial operations on rational languages.- Some structural aspects of hypergraph languages generated by hyperedge replacement.- Specification and implementation of concurrently accessed data structures: An abstract data type approach.- On implementations of loose abstract data type specifications and their vertical composition.- Are homomorphisms sufficient for behavioural implementations of deterministic and nondeterministic data types .- Some remarks on presentations by finite Church-Rosser Thue systems.- Ground term confluence in parametric conditional equational specifications.- Describing semantic domains with sprouts.- Comparing direct and continuation semantics styles for concurrent languages.- Expressibility of first order logic with a nondeterministic inductive operator.- Bounded nondeterminism and the approximation induction principle in processalgebra.- The step failure semantics.- On the complexity of containment, equivalence, and reachability for finite and 2-dimensional vector addition systems with states.- Closure properties of deterministic Petri nets.- Some results on fairness: The regular case.- Decidability questions for fairness in Petri nets.- Optimal sorting on multi-dimensionally mesh-connected computers.- On the contact-minimization-problem.- Making distributed spanning tree algorithms fault-resilient.- The derivation of on-the-fly garbage collection algorithms from distributed termination detection protocols.- On the expected complexity of distributed selection.- LPG: A generic, logic and functional programming language.- CEC.- ASSPEGIQUE.- REVEUR4 : A laboratory for conditional rewriting.- An interactive, incremental and portable computer algebra system for -calculus and combinatory logic based on video edition and rewriting techniques.- The Passau RAP System: Rapid prototyping for algebraic specifications.- SPRAC: A software engineering environment.- SLOG: A logic interpreter for equational clauses.- An algebraic transformation system for occam programs.- REVE a rewrite rule laboratory.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Physical principles of electrets.- Thermally stimulated discharge of electrets.- Radiation-induced charge storage and polarization effects.- Piezo- and pyroelectric properties.- Bioelectrets : Electrets in biomaterials and biopolymers.- Applications.- Recent progress in electret research.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 476 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Use of expert systems for control system design.- Indicators of stability, performance and robustness.- The primary indicators for interactive design.- Simple design technique.- Reverse frame alignment design technique.- An observer-based approach to design.- Development of an expert system for multivariable control system design using a systematic design approach.- Conclusions.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Singular perturbation techniques in control theory.- Singular perturbations for deterministic control problems.- Singular perturbations in stochastic control.- Singular perturbation of Markov chains.- Optimal control of perturbed Markov chains.- Time scale modeling of dynamic networks with sparse and weak connections.- Stability analysis of singularly perturbed systems.- New stability theorems for averaging and their application to the convergence analysis of adaptive identification and control schemes.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 432 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Approach your problems from the right end It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is and begin with the answers. Then one day. that they can't see the problem. perhaps you will find the final question. G. K. Chesterton. The Scandal of Father 'The Hennit Clad in Crane Feathers' in R. Brown 'The point of a Pin'. van Gulik's The Chinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the 'tree' of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces. And in addition to this there are such new emerging subdisciplines as 'experimental mathematics', 'CFD', 'completely integrable systems', 'chaos, synergetics and large-scale order', which are almost impossible to fit into the existing classification schemes. They draw upon widely different sections of mathematics.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From the reviews:'It survives the pitfalls of this fashion-conscious era by pursuing a rigorously independent-minded attitude to contemporary ideas. The level is introductory undergraduate, with rather little mathematics but a strong physical basis.The second part, on general relativity and cosmology, provides a good account of modern theoretical ideas, from rotating black holes to Grand Unified Theories and inflation. The third part is an excellent and profound discussion of the fundamental problems of cosmology. For anyone with a philosophical turn of mind this section alone makes the book essential reading.' Nature 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Describes basic programming principles and their step-by-step applications.Numerous examples are included. 388 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This is a new, revised edition of this widely known text. All of the basic topics in calculus of several variables are covered. The presentation is self-contained, assuming only a knowledge of basic calculus in one variable. Many completely worked-out problems have been included.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 636 pp. Englisch.