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The mathematical study of the Bose gas goes back to the ?rst quarter of the twentieth century, with the invention of quantum mechanics. The name refers to the Indian physicist S.N. Bose who realized...

This textbook contains a rigorous exposition of the mathematical foundations of two of the most important topics in politics and economics: voting and apportionment, at the level of upper...

Intended for a wide audience, this book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of the various maximum principles available in elliptic theory, from their beginning for linear equations to...

Vladimir Maz'ya: Friend and mathematician. Recollections.- On Maz'ya's work in potential theory and the theory of function spaces.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Embeddings and isoperimetric inequalities.- 3...

During the week of August 31 - September 4, 1998, a conference in honour of Vladimir Maz'ya was held in Rostock as a satellite meeting of the World Congress of Mathematicians. It was sponsored by the...

Vol. t59. 2002 J damaged zone on the rock mass. Collins el al. examine the benefits of employing small-scale microseismic and acoustic emission systems to investigate the temporal fracture mechanics...

The Medieval Latin Translation of the Data of EuclidAuthor: Shuntaro ItoPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Sep 11, 2013Number of Pages: 256 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The simplest model of nuclear matter is a collection of point nucleons interacting through a two-body potential that accounts for scattering data and the properties of the deuteron. In order to use...

This monograph presents the newly developed method of rigged Hilbert spaces as a modern approach in singular perturbation theory. A key notion of this approach is the Lax-Berezansky triple of Hilbert...

The moduli space Mg of curves of fixed genus g - that is, the algebraic variety that parametrizes all curves of genus g - is one of the most intriguing objects of study in algebraic geometry these...

Reflects recent developments related to the Monge-Ampere equation stressing the geometric aspects of the theory, using some techniques from harmonic analysis---covering lemmas and set decompositions...

The Monge-Amp?re EquationAuthor: Cristian E. Guti?rrezPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Nov 02, 2016Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319433725ISBN-13:...

The primary objective of this monograph is to develop an elementary and se- containedapproachtothemathematicaltheoryofaviscousincompressible?uid n in a domain ? of the Euclidean spaceR, described by...

In this volume outstanding specialists review the state of the art in nervous system research for all main invertebrate groups. They provide a comprehensive up-to-date analysis important for everyone...

The network paradigm dominated immunological research from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The originator, Niels Jerne, hypothesized that the vast diversity of antibodies in each individual forms...

To commemorate properly the 70th birthday of a man who, by his very nature, is too busy to pause for any kind of ceremonial event unless it has a concomitant functional output was a difficult problem...

These lecture notes contain a guided tour to the Novikov Conjecture and related conjectures due to Baum-Connes, Borel and Farrell-Jones. They begin with basics about higher signatures, Whitehead...

Recent research indicates that the immune system and inflammatory reactions are governed and regulated by powerful neuronal mediators derived from the central and peripheral nervous system. The NPY...

A.A. Kirillov's pioneering 1962 paper on nilpotent orbits places him as the founder of orbit theory. The orbit method influenced the development of several areas of mathematics in the second half of...

The Orbit Method in Representation Theory: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Copenhagen, August to September 1988Author: DulfoPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 04, 2011Number of Pages: 230...

The Parabolic Anderson Model: Random Walk in Random PotentialAuthor: Wolfgang K?nigPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: May 31, 2018Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Neuropeptides rank among the phylogenetically oldest interneuronal signal substances. In the concept of neuro-secretion they were identified as neurohormones by which - via the blood - the brain...

The Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic in the 1920s and 1930s in PolandAuthor: Roman MurawskiPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Sep 08, 2014Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Travelers differ.At one extreme are random travelers who see what they accidentally bump into.At the other extreme are the lock-step travelers who follow a banner (or a red umbrella) and look when...

The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological...

The book explores the theory of discrete integrable systems, with an emphasis on the following general problem: how to discretize one or several of independent variables in a given integrable system...

A solution to the protein folding problem has eluded researchers for more than 30 years. The stakes are high. Such a solution will make 40,000 more tertiary structures available for immediate study...

This book is the English translation of Baumgart's thesis on the early proofs of the quadratic reciprocity law ("?ber das quadratische Reciprocit?tsgesetz. Eine vergleichende Darstellung der...

This book is the third in a series of lectures of the S eminaire Poincar e, whichis directed towards a large audience of physicists and of mathematicians. The goal of this seminar is to provide up...

The aim of this book is to present the theory and applications of the relativistic Boltzmann equation in a self-contained manner, even for those readers who have no familiarity with special and...