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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. 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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book provides an introduction to the modern theory of polynomials whose coefficients are linear bounded operators in a Banach space - operator polynomials. This theory has its roots and applications in partial differential equations, mechanics and linear systems, as well as in modern operator theory and linear algebra. Over the last decade, new advances have been made in the theory of operator polynomials based on the spectral approach. The author, along with other mathematicians, participated in this development, and many of the recent results are reflected in this monograph. It is a pleasure to acknowledge help given to me by many mathematicians. First I would like to thank my teacher and colleague, I. Gohberg, whose guidance has been invaluable. Throughout many years, I have worked wtih several mathematicians on the subject of operator polynomials, and, consequently, their ideas have influenced my view of the subject; these are I. Gohberg, M. A. Kaashoek, L. Lerer, C. V. M. van der Mee, P. Lancaster, K. Clancey, M. Tismenetsky, D. A. Herrero, and A. C. M. Ran. The following mathematicians gave me advice concerning various aspects of the book: I. Gohberg, M. A. Kaashoek, A. C. M. Ran, K. Clancey, J. Rovnyak, H. Langer, P.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. 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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. 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 39Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 576 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. 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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 444 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. 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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This publication was made possible through a bequest from my beloved late ~ wife. United together in this present collection are those works by the author which have not previously appeared in book form. The following are excepted: Vorlesungen tiber Differential und Integra1rechnung (Lectures on Differential and Integral Calculus) Vo1s 1-3, Birkhiiuser Verlag, Basel (1965-1968); Aufgabensamm1ung zur Infinitesima1rechnung (Exercises in Infinitesimal Calculus) Vo1s 1, 2a, 2b, and 3, Birkhiiuser Verlag, Basel (1967-1977); two issues from Memorial des Sciences on Conformal Mapping (written together with C. Gattegno), Gauthier-Villars, Paris (1949); Solution of Equations in Euclidean and Banach Spaces, Academic Press, New York (1973); and Stu dien tiber den Schottkyschen Satz (Studies on Schottky's Theorem), Wepf & Co., Basel (1931). Where corrections have had to be implemented in the text of certain papers, references to these are made at the conclusion of each paper. In the few instances where this system does not, for technical reasons, seem appropriate, an asterisk in the page margin indicates wherever a correction is necessary and is then given at the end of the paper. (There is one exception: the correc this tions to the paper on page 561 are presented on page 722. The works are published in 6 volumes and are arranged under 16 topic headings. Within each heading, the papers are ordered chronologically according to the date of original publication.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 548 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Until the mid-twentieth century, topological studies were focused on the theory of suitable structures on sets of points. The concept of open set exploited since the twenties offered an expression of the geometric intuition of a 'realistic' place (spot, grain) of non-trivial extent.Imitating the behaviour of open sets and their relations led to a new approach to topology flourishing since the end of the fifties.It has proved to be beneficial in many respects. Neglecting points, only little information was lost, while deeper insights have been gained; moreover, many results previously dependent onchoice principles became constructive. The result is often a smoother, rather than a more entangled, theory.No monograph of this nature has appeared since Johnstone's celebrated Stone Spaces in 1983. The present book is intended as a bridge from that time to the present. Most of the material appears here in book form for the first time or is presented from new points of view. Two appendices provide an introduction to some requisite concepts from order and category theories.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 420 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Authors: Hugo Bachmann, Walter J. Ammann, Florian Deischl, Josef Eisenmann, Ingomar Floegl, Gerhard H. Hirsch, Günter K. Klein, Göran J. Lande, Oskar Mahrenholtz, Hans G. Natke, Hans Nussbaumer, Anthony J. Pretlove, Johann H. Rainer, Ernst-Ulrich Saemann, Lorenz Steinbeisser. Large structures such as factories, gymnasia, concert halls, bridges, towers, masts and chimneys can be detrimentally affected by vibrations. These vibrations can cause either serviceability problems, severely hampering the user's comfort, or safety problems. The aim of this book is to provide structural and civil engineers working in construction and environmental engineering with practical guidelines for counteracting vibration problems. Dynamic actions are considered from the following sources of vibration: - human body motions, - rotating, oscillating and impacting machines, - wind flow, - road traffic, railway traffic and construction work. The main section of the book presents tools that aid in decision-making and in deriving simple solutions to cases of frequently occurring 'normal' vibration problems. Complexer problems and more advanced solutions are also considered. In all cases these guidelines should enable the engineer to decide on appropriate solutions expeditiously. The appendices of the book contain fundamentals essential to the main chapters.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the vVorkshop on Trees held in Versailles on 14-16 June 1995. Why: a workshop on trees Two main reasons motivated this workshop. First, the current plethora of tree representations in branching processes which has be come obvious by the Minneapolis IMA Congress Classica] and Modern Branching Processes in 1994. But this would not have been sufficient to organize an 'n-th' congress on branching processes. Secondly, regular discussions with researchers in algebra and computing sciences at the University of Versailles and at INRIA (lnstitut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) convinced us it would be fruitful to offer the workers in these different fields the opportunity to exchange their points of view on the subject. The organizers being probabilists, a large part of the meeting (two sessions) was devoted t~ probability theor:y (not only branching processes). Nevertheless, the other three sessions focused on algorithms, on ultrametric and combinatorial aspects of trees and on disordered systems. Most papers in this volume are both of high level and of pedagogical interest. They are intended for a large public, including graduate students looking for an initiation to tree structures. The papers have been grouped into four sections: - disordered systems, - probability and trees, - large deviations, - ultrametric and algebraic aspects of trees. Some of the speakers are, unfortunately, not represented in this volume.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Die Schweiz birgt auf kleinem Raum starke geographische und kulturelle Unterschiede, die sich in deutlichen Unterschieden der regionalen Sterblichkeit widerspiegeln. In diesem Atlas werden diese Unterschiede anhand der Todesfälle von 1969 bis 1992 für die Gesamtsterblichkeit sowie für die einzelnen Krebslokalisationen eingehend analysiert, sowie als Ergänzung und Hintergrund auch die Mortalität an Herz-Kreislaufkrankheiten, Leberzirrhose, Bronchitis und Selbstmord dargestellt. Eine umfangreiche Zusammenschau der Querbezüge zwischen den Todesursachenmustern untereinander und zu sozioökonomischen Einflussvariablen wird darüber hinaus vorgenommen. Eine so gründliche Darstellung der Krankheitsgeographie existiert bisher für kein anderes Land der Welt.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 232 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -'Functional Analysis' is a comprehensive, 2-volume treatment of a subject lying at the core of modern analysis and mathematical physics. The first volume reviews basic concepts such as the measure, the integral, Banach spaces, bounded operators and generalized functions. Volume II moves on to more advanced topics including unbounded operators, spectral decomposition, expansion in generalized eigenvectors, rigged spaces, and partial differential operators. This text provides students of mathematics and physics with a clear introduction into the above concepts, with the theory well illustrated by a wealth of examples. Researchers will appreciate it as a useful reference manual.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 452 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch verfolgt verschiedene, eng miteinander verbundene Ziele. In erster Linie mochte es Schiilern, Lehrern und Studierenden der Mathematik dienlich sein als Einfiihrnngin einen wichtigen, aher meist vernachlassigten Aspekt der Mathematik. Doch ist das Buch in gewissem Sinn auch eine philosophische Abhandlung. Ebenso ist es eine Fortsetzung friiherer Arbeiten und verlangt selbst eine Fortsetzung. Ich werde auf diese Punkte der Reihe nach zu sprechen kommen. 1. Streng genommen besteht unser ganzes Wissen auIlerhalb der Mathematik und der demonstrativen Logik (die ja in der Tat ein Zweig der Mathematik ist) aus Vermutungen. Es gibt natiirlich Ver mutungen und Vermutungen. Es gibt hOchst respektable und zu verlassige Vermutungen wie die in gewissen allgemeinen Gesetzen der Naturwissenschaften niedergelegten. Es giht andere Vermutungen, die weder respektabel noch zuverlassig sind, und die einen zuweilen argern konnen, wenn man sie in der Zeitung Hest. Und zwischen diesen beiden Extremen stehen alle moglichen Arten und Schattierungen von Ver muten, instinktivem Vorausfiihlen und Erraten. Wir sichern die Giiltigkeit unseres mathematischen Wissens durch demonstratives SchliefJen, aber wir stiitzen unsere Vermutungen durch plausibles SchliefJen. Ein mathematischer Beweis besteht aus demon strativem SchlieIlen, aber der Induktionsbeweis des Physikers, der Indizienbeweis des Juristen, der dokumentarische Beweis des Ristori kers, der statistische Beweis des Nationalokonomen gehoren zum plausiblen SchlieIlen. Der Unterschied zwischen den heiden SchluIlweisen ist groIl und mannigfaltig. Demonstratives SchlieBen ist sicher, unbestreitbar und endgiiltig. Plausibles Schlie!3en ist gewagt, strittig und provisorisch.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 408 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : 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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 628 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Die Akustik ist ein Gebiet, das erstaunlicherweise in der wissenschaftshistorischen Literatur nur relativ selten zu finden ist. Darstellungen langerer Epochen in der Entwicklung dieses Fachgebietes haben noch groBeren Seltenheitswert. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erschien bisher lediglich F.V. HUNTS 'Origins in acoustics', das im wesentlichen die Zeitepoche von der Antike bis NEWTON beschreibt. Ein Buch, das in gewisser Weise aIs eine Fortsetzung betrachtet werden kann, ist CANNON/DoSTROVSKYS 'The evolution of dynamics: Vibration theory from 1687 to 1742'. Es setzt jedoch gemlill seinem Titel ganz bestimmte Akzente. Mit NEWTONS 'Principia' von 1687 beginnt eine Periode ausgesprochen theoretischer Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Akustik, fUr die Namen wie z.B. TAYLOR, SAUVEUR, EULER, D'ALEMBERT, JOHANN und DANIEL BERNOULLI Zeugnis ablegen. Dieses Uberwiegen der Theorie wird 1787 mit dem Auftreten CHLADNIS wieder zugunsten des Experiments verschoben. Da es tiber die Tatigkeit der eben genannten Forscher bereits einige ausfUhrliche DarsteIlungen gibt, beginnt die detaillierte Betrachtung in diesem Buch erst im Erscheinungsjahr von CHLADNIS Erstlingswerk. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, nicht nur die akustischen Arbeiten CHLADNIS zu beschreiben, sondem auch seinen Einflull auf die Forschung bis in die Mitte des 19.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 252 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Das Riemannsche Integral lernen schon die Schüler kennen, die Theorien der reellen und der komplexen Funktionen bauen auf wichtigen Begriffsbildungen und Sätzen Riemanns auf, die Riemannsche Geometrie ist für Einsteins Gravitationstheorie und ihre Erweiterungen unentbehrlich, und in der Zahlentheorie ist die berühmte Riemannsche Vermutung noch immer offen. Riemann und sein um fünf Jahre jüngerer Freund Richard Dedekind sahen sich als Schüler von Gauss und Dirichlet. Um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts leiteten sie den Übergang zur 'modernen Mathematik' ein, der eine in Analysis und Geometrie, der andere in der Algebra mit der Hinwendung zu Mengen und Strukturen. Dieses Buch ist der erste Versuch, Riemanns wissenschaftliches Werk unter einem einheitlichen Gesichtspunkt zusammenzufassend darzustellen. Riemann gilt als einer der Philosophen unter den Mathematikern. Er stellte das Denken in Begriffen neben die zuvor vorherrschende algorithmische Auffassung von der Mathematik, welche die Gegenstände der Untersuchung, in Formeln und Figuren, in Termumformungen und regelhaften Konstruktionen als die allein legitimen Methoden sah. David Hilbert hat als Riemanns Grundsatz herausgestellt, die Beweise nicht durch Rechnung, sondern lediglich durch Gedanken zu zwingen. Hermann Weyl sah als das Prinzip Riemanns in Mathematik und Physik, 'die Welt als das erkenntnistheoretische Motiv., die Welt aus ihrem Verhalten im un- endlich kleinen zu verstehen.'Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 352 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : 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. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1 Prologue.- A) America¿s second Leibniz. B) The difficulties of a biographer. C) Scope and focus. D) Poetry, prose and mathematical symbolism. E) Policy as to mathematical usage.- 2 Count Tolstoy and Wiener¿s Father.- Solomon and Leo Wiener. The gift of tongues. Tolstoyan conversion and arrival in New Orleans. Mutualistic communities in the 1880s. Leo¿s ¿Mark Twain¿ characteristics: ¿the Russian Irishman¿. Marriage and family. Professorships at Missouri and Harvard.- 3 New England and Wiener¿s Early Training, 1901¿1905.- Norbert¿s Cambridge home. Early biological curiosities. Peabody School and Leo¿s tutelage. The ¿avenger of blood¿. Infantile maladroitness and threat of myopia. Old Mill Farms and Ayer High School. Love for the democracy of the New England town.- 4 Harvard and Wiener¿s University Training, 1906¿1913.- A) An eleven-year-old freshman at Tufts College. B) A semester in zoology. C) The ¿black year¿ at the Sage school of philosophy. D) The return to Harvard.- 5 Bertrand Russell and Wiener¿s Postdoctoral Years, 1914¿1917.- A) Wiener¿s emancipation. B) The doctrine of types. C) The Tractatus and logical empiricism. D) Wiener¿s philosophical activity. E) Columbia and its word-minded philosopher (1915). F) Harvard and the Docent Lectures (1915¿1916). G) The unpleasant stint in Maine (1916). Note: The Peano postulate system.- 6 World War I and Wiener¿s Military Yearnings.- The young war enthusiast. Futile efforts to enlist in the armed forces. Staff work with the Encyclopedia Americana. Computer at the U.S. Army Proving Grounds. Private in the U.S. Infantry. Fowlersque touch.- 7 From Postulate Systems to the Brownian Motion and Potential Theory.- A) Wiener joins the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. B) The relation of space and geometry to experience [22a]. C) Postulate systems. D) The Brownian motion. E) Theory of the potential. Note 1: Boolean algebra. Note 2: Algebraic field. Note 3: The Brownian movement. Note 4: The ¿Borel¿ terminology. Note 5: Hausdorff dimension.- 8 The Allotment of National Income, Marriage, and Wiener¿s Academic Career.- Slow promotion and resulting competitiveness. Mal-allocation of national income. Margaret Engemann and marriage. Search for positions abroad.- 9 From Communications Engineering to Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theory.- A) Harmonic analysis. B) Heaviside¿s operational calculus [26d, 29c]. C) From power to communications engineering. D) Generalized harmonic analysis. E) Tauberian theory. F) The intensity, coherence and polarization of light. Note 1: A proof of ¿ 9A (9). Note 2: Historical remarks. Note 3: Spectral synthesis. Note 4: Conditional Banach spaces.- 10 Max Born and Wiener¿s Thoughts on Quantum Mechanics and Unified Field Theory.- A) The Uncertainty Principle in classical physics. B) The collaboration with Max Born. C) The work with Struik and Vallarta on unified field theory. D) The philosophical interlude. Leibniz and Haldane. E) Quantum theory and the Brownian motion. Hidden-parameters. Note: The mapping M .- 11 The Collaboration with E. Hopf and R.E.A.C. Paley.- A) Radiative equilibrium in the stars. B) Significance of the Hopf-Wiener equation; causality and analyticity. C) Paley and the Fourier transformation in the complex domain.- 12 Birkhoff¿s Theorem and the Consolidation of Wiener¿s Ideas on Statistical Physics.- A) The need for ergodicity in Gibbsian statistical mechanics. B) Wiener¿s work in Ergodic Theory. C) The contingent cosmos, noise, and Gibbsian statistical mechanics. D) The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy. E) The homogeneous chaos and the Wiener program in statistical mechanics. F) Anisotropic time and Bergsonian time. G) Information, negentropy and Maxwell¿s demon. Note 1: Definition of the Hamiltonian. Note 2: Thermodynamic entropy. Note 3: Boltzmann statistical entropy. Note 4: Proof of equality of entropy and information.- 13 Lee, Bush, and Wiener¿s Th.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. 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.

Taschenbuch. Etat : 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. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first European Congress of Mathematics was held in Paris from July 6 to July 10, 1992, at the Sorbonne and Pantheon-Sorbonne universities. It was hoped that the Congress would constitute a symbol of the development of the community of European nations. More than 1,300 persons attended the Congress. The purpose of the Congress was twofold. On the one hand, there was a scientific facet which consisted of forty-nine invited mathematical lectures that were intended to establish the state of the art in the various branches of pure and applied mathematics. This scientific facet also included poster sessions where participants had the opportunity of presenting their work. Furthermore, twenty-four specialized meetings were held before and after the Congress. The second facet of the Congress was more original. It consisted of six teen round tables whose aim was to review the prospects for the interactions of mathematics, not only with other sciences, but also with society and in particular with education, European policy and industry. In connection with this second goal, the Congress also succeeded in bring ing mathematics to a broader public. In addition to the round tables specific ally devoted to this question, there was a mini-festival of mathematical films and two mathematical exhibits. Moreover, a Junior Mathematical Congress was organized, in parallel with the Congress, which brought together two hundred high school students. 548 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the first years of the existence of this series of monographs, during the so-called 'Golden Age' of drug research, the majority of the pa pers published were mainly concerned with the traditional domains of drug research, namely chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and pre clinical investigations. The series' aim was to give coverage to impor tant areas of research, to introduce new active substances with thera peutic potential and to call attention to unsolved problems. This objective has not changed. The table of contents of the present volume makes evident, however, that the search for new medicines has become increasingly complex, and additional, new disciplines have entered the research arena. The series now includes reviews on bio chemical, biological, immunological, physiological and medicinal aspects of drug research. Researchers actively engaged in the various scientific fields forming the entity of drug research can benefit from the wealth of knowledge and experience of the respective authors, and will be assisted in their endeavour to discover new pharmaceutical agents. Those simply wanting to keep abreast of new developments in the complex, multi-discipline science can turn to the 'Progress in Drug Research' volumes as an almost encyclopaedic source of information without having to consult the innumerable original publications. Volume 32 contains 12 reviews, a subject index, an index for the close to 400 articles published in the series so far, and an author and titles index for all 32 volumes.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 552 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -w. KlingmUller Lehrstuhl fUr Genetik, Universitat Bayreuth, UniversitatsstraBe 30, 8580 Bayreuth, FRG th th On September 6 and 7 1983 the second workshop on 'Azospirillum: Genetics, Physiology, Ecology' took place at the University of Bayreuth, west Germany, organized by the genetics department. There were about 50 participants, who came from German research institutions, from other European countries, from Israel, Egypt and North and South America. The first such workshop had taken place two years ago in Bayreuth too, hence the organizers could draw on the experiences then obtained. Azospirilla have, during the past ten years, found an ever increasing scientific interest, because first, these soil bacte ria carry the genetic information for binding molecular nitrogen from the air, and second, they live in close vicinity to the roots of several grain crops and forage grasses. By exploitation of these two properties, it is hoped to develop inoculation pro cedures that result in yield increases in agriculture, in par ticular in soils poor in nitrogen. The reports on the first afternoon focussed, as a result of the Bayreuth research interest, on the genetic basis and the regulation of nitrogen fixation in Azospirillum. Here, mainly by application of most modern gene technological approaches, considerable progress in the understanding of the situation has been made, and was documented in the corresponding reports.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Volume 29 of 'Progress in Drug Research' contains 10 articles, a sub ject index for this volume, an alphabetic index of articles for volumes 1-29, and an author und subject index for all the volumes which have so far been published. The contributions of volume 29 are particularly concerned with drugs in general, hypertension and cardiovascular drugs, atherosclerosis, teratogenic hazards and carcinogenecity, hist amine, dopamine agonists, tetrahydroquinolines and /J-carbolines, and meddicinal research. The authors have tried, and I think they have succeded, not only to summarize the current status of particular fields of drug research, but also to provide leads for future research activity. The articles of this vo lume will be of special value to those actively engaged in drug re search, and to those who wish to keep abrest of the latest developments influencing modern therapy. In addition, it is believed that the 29 vo lumes of 'Progress in Drug Research' now available represent a useful reference book of encyclopedic character. The editor would like to take the occasion of the publication of this volume to express his grati tude both to the authors and to the readers. The authors have willingly . undertaken the great labor of writing significant topical contributions, and many readers have helped the editor with criticism and advise. With these thanks, the editor would like to express his gratitude to the publishers, Birkhauser Verlag Basel, particularly to Messrs. H. 1. Ben der, C. Einsele and A.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 508 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Fourth International Symposium on Multivariate Approximation Theory was held at the Oberwolfach Mathematical Research Insti tute, Black Forest, W.-Germany, during the week of January 20 - 26, 1985. The preceding conferences on this topic were held in 1976, 1979, and 1982 \* . We were pleased to have more than 50 mathematicians from 13 countries in attendance. The program in cluded 40 lectures. These Proceedings form a record of most of the papers presented at the Symposium. The topics treated cover different problems on multivariate approximation such as polynomial approximation on simplices, multivariate splines (box-splines, dimension of spline spaces), blending methods, multivariate Hermite interpolation, data smoothing and surface representation, and multivariate summation methods. We would like to thank the director of the Oberwolfach Mathe matical Research Institute, Prof. Dr. M. Barner, and his staff for providing the facilities. Of the people who gave their time to help make this conference a success, we would like to mention in particular Prof. Dr. F.J. Delvos (Siegen), Dr. G. Baszenski (College Station, Texas), and Dipl.-Math. H. Nienhaus (Siegen). Finally, our thanks are due to Carl Einsele of Birkhauser Publishers for his valuable cooperation.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This volume contains a collection of 23 papers presented at the 4th French-German Conference on Optimization, hold at Irsee, April 21 - 26, 1986. The conference was aUended by ninety scientists: about one third from France, from Germany and from third countries each. They all contributed to a highly interesting and stimulating meeting. The scientifique program consisted of four survey lectures of a more tutorical character and of 61 contributed papers covering almost all areas of optimization. In addition two informal evening sessions and a plenary discussion on further developments of optimization theory were organized. One of the main aims of the organizers was to indicate and to stress the increasing importance of optimization methods for almost all areas of science and for a fast growing number of industry branches. We hope that the conference approached this goal in a certain degree and managed to continue fruitful discussions between -theory and -applications-. Equally important to the official contributions and lectures is the -nonmeasurable part of activities inherent in such a scientific meeting. Here the charming and inspiring atmosphere of a place like Irsee helped to establish numerous new contacts between the participants and to deepen already existing ones. The conference was sponsored by the Bayerische Kultusministerium, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Universities of Augsburg and Bayreuth. Their interest in the meeting and their assistance is gratefully acknowledged. We would like to thank the authors for their contributions and the referees for their helpful comments.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 396 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -O I 1 -1 durch die GauB-Quadraturformel Q I n n L w 0 f (x 0) ¿ i=1 1 1 Sei Rn : = I - Q das Fehlerfunktional. n Izl1, Fur eine im Kreis Kr I Kr : = {z E a: holomorphe Funktion f, f(z) = L i=O sei f i i ¿ = x . ( 1. 1) : = sup{ I a 0 I r i E:JN und R (qo) \* O}, qo (x) o 1 n 1 1 In Xr := {f: f holomorph in Kr und IflrSpringer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Under the generous chairmanship of Professor Dr. med. Werner Kaufmann we organized the international symposium on 'VASODEPRESSOR HORMONES IN HYPERTENSION - PROSTAGLANDINS AND KININS' held in Nuremberg (FRG) as an official satellite symposium to the Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension 1986. This supplement brings together the most interesting papers presented at this symposium. In the past there were hundreds of publications in both fields, the prostaglandins and the kallikrein-kinins and there were a lot of information indic~ting that these two systems influence each other strongly. But it is not at all clear till today which role these two systems play in physiological or even pathophysio logical regulation of systemic blood pressure. So it was aim of this symposium to bring the scientists of these two fields together to discuss blood pressure regulation in respect of the prostaglandin and kallikrein-kinin system. The authors of the presented papers provided new findings, an overview of their own work, and their hypotheses in this field. We would like to thank the contributors for their excellent papers and scientific discussion. We pay particular credit to the Birkhauser Verlag AG, Basel, Switzerland, for their kind cooperation, and express particular thanks to Mrs Renate Wiesmann and Mrs Renate Cawello for writing the manuscripts. Our gratitude goes to Schwarz GmbH, Monheim (FRG) wi thout their sponsorship this symposium' and book would not have been possible. July, 1987 G. Bonner O. A. Carretero H. Kueppers J.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 396 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This monograph collects research and expository articles reflect ing the interaction and the cooperation of different groups in several European institut ions concerning current research on mathematical models for the behaviour of materials with phase change. These papers were presented and discussed in a Workshop held at Obidos, Portugal, du ring the first three days of October, 1988, and grew out of a two year period of intensive exploitation of differ ent abilities and mathematical experiences of the six participating groups, namely, in the University of Augsburg, wh ich was the co ordination center of this project, the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees of Paris, the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, the University of Florence, the University of Lisbon and the University of Oxford. This project was carried out under the title 'Mathemat ical Models of Phase Transitions and Numerical Simulation' , in the framework of twinning program for stimulation of cooperation and scientific interchange, sponsored by the European Community. The underlying idea of the project was to create and study the mathematical models arising in applied engineering problems with free boundaries in a broad sense, namely in melting and freezing problems, diffusion-reaction processes, solid-solid phase transition, hysteresis phenomena, 'mushy region' descriptions, contact prob lems with friction andjor adhesion, elastoplastic deformations, etc. vi This large spectrum of applied problems have in common the main feature of brusque transitions of their qualitative behaviour that correspond, in general, to non-classical discontinuous monotone or non monotone strong nonlinearities in the mathematical equations.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 428 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -W. Klingmuller Lehrstuhl fur Genetik, Universitat Bayreuth, UniversitatsstraBe 30, 8580 Bayreuth, FRG Growth of higher plants, particularly agricultural crops, de pends on combined nitrogen. To obtain high yields, combined nitrogen has to be supplied as fertilizer. However, the che- cal production of nitrogen fertilizers is very energy consuming and costly. In underdeveloped countries there is in addition the problem of how to get such fertilizer and how to distribute it. Efforts to replace chemical nitrogen fertilizers by other means of nitrogen fertilization are therefore important. Some bacteria have the capability to use molecular nitrogen from the atmosphere. Such nitrogen is thus transformed into a bound form. Responsible for this capability is a gene group they carry, the nif genes, and an enzyme system, they produce, nitrogenase. An example for such bacteria are rhizobia, which grow in symbioses with leguminous plants, and in their root nodules bind molecular nitrogen. The host plant takes advantage of this. Less well known, but being studied with increasing intensity, are the so called Azospirillum bacteria. They too bind molecular nitrogen. But, in contrast to rhizobia, they do not form nodules on the roots of legumes, but live in loose associations with the roots of other plants, for instance maize, wheat, rice or other grain crops. By exploiting the capabilities of these bacteria it can be hoped to find a way for supplying biologically bound nit- gen to grain crops.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 152 pp. Englisch.