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Three-dimensional topology includes two vast domains: the study of geometric structures on 3-manifolds and the study of topological invariants of 3-manifolds, knots, etc. This book belongs to the...

This is an extended second edition of "The Topology of Torus Actions on Symplectic Manifolds" published as Volume 93 in this series in 1991. The material and references have been updated. Symplectic...

The 39 chapters in this volume consider subjects ranging from genetics, markers, and molecular biology of alcoholism, to clinical observations and treatment. The aim is to integrate pertinent...

This book is an essay on the epistemology of classifications. Its main purpose is not to provide an exposition of an actual mathematical theory of classifications, that is, a general theory which...

This book offers an original contribution to the foundations of logic and mathematics and focuses on the internal logic of mathematical theories, from arithmetic or number theory to algebraic...

The book contains reproductions of the most important papers that gave birth to the first developments in nonlinear programming. Of particular interest is W. Karush's often quoted Master Thesis,...

This monograph explores the design of controllers that suppress oscillations and instabilities in congested traffic flow using PDE backstepping methods. The first part of the text is concerned with...

Der vorliegende von Herm Walter Borgogno als Promotionsarbeit verfasste Bericht befasst sich mit dem Tragverhalten von Slim Floor Decken mit Betonhohlplatten bei Raumtemperatur und Brandeinwirkungen...

Tramway LokomotivenAuthor: HeftiPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Jan 01, 1980Number of Pages: 238 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3764311592ISBN-13: 9783764311599

What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from...

"What good is a newborn baby?" Michael Faraday's reputed response when asked, "What good is magnetic induction?" But, it must be admitted that a newborn baby may die in infancy. What about this one-...

This book is a comprehensive presentation of recent results and developments on several widely used transforms and their fast algorithms. In many cases, new options are provided for improved or new...

Die Anwendung von Gentechnik bei Pflanzen ist in Europa nach wie vor umstritten. Ein zentrales Thema der Kontroverse sind die Auswirkungen auf die nat?rliche Umwelt und die Gesundheit der Verbraucher...

Transgene Pflanzen informiert ?ber den aktuellen Stand der Wissenschaft auf dem Gebiet der "Gr?nen Gentechnik". So kann sich jeder sein eigenes Urteil ?ber dieses Teilgebiet der Gentechnik bilden...

In 1992, a group of scientists including molecular biologists, microbiologists, population biolo- gists, ecologists, human geneticists, moral philosophers and others met discussing the state of...

This landmark monograph presents the most recent mathematical developments in the analysis of ionospheric distortions of SAR images and offers innovative new strategies for their mitigation. As a...

This book presents models written as partial differential equations and originating from various questions in population biology, such as physiologically structured equations, adaptive dynamics, and...

There are several physico-chemical processes that determine the behavior of multiphase fluid systems - e.g., the fluid dynamics in the different phases and the dynamics of the interface(s), mass...

Author: W. EbelingPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 182 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3034854315ISBN-13: 9783034854313

Computer simulation of semiconductor processing equipment and devices requires the use of a wide variety of numerical methods. Of these methods, the Monte Carlo approach is perhaps most fundamentally...

Das Buch bietet erstmalig Einsichten in historische und aktuelle Berufsverl?ufe von Frauen und M?nnern in der Mathematik. Ziel des Buches ist zu zeigen, dass es sich lohnt, Mathematik zu studieren...

Travelling Mathematics - The Fate of Diophantos' ArithmeticAuthor: Ad MeskensPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Sep 27, 2010Number of Pages: 210 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Travelling waves are observed in many natural processes, ranging from the spread of diseases to the combustion of fuels. A common feature of a multitude of these phenomena is that they can be...

This volume provides an in-depth overview of the current state of psoriasis and its management. It reviews the clinical manifestations of psoriasis as well as psoriatic arthritis and emphasizes the...

This monograph extends this approach to the more general investigation of X-lattices, and these "tree lattices" are the main object of study. The authors present a coherent survey of the results on...

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...

This volume contains contributions from international experts in the fields of constructive approximation. This area has reached out to encompass the computational and approximation-theoretical...

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:...

This book consists of contributions originating from a conference in Obedo, Portugal, which honored the 70th birthday of V.A. Solonnikov. A broad variety of topics centering on nonlinear problems is...

Optimization problems subject to constraints governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most challenging problems in the context of industrial, economical and medical...