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The collection of papers in this volume represents recent advances in the under- standing of the geometry and topology of singularities. The book covers a broad range of topics which are in the focus...

The construction considered in these notes is based on a very simple idea. Let (A, G ) and (B, G ) be two group representations, for definiteness faithful and finite- 1 2 dimensional, over an...

Unter dem Eindruck besorgniserregender Sch?den an nahezu allen heimischen Waldbaumarten wurden seit Anfang der aChtziger Jahre neue Forderungen die Morphologie an herangetragen. Ziel...

Die Erforschung von Tropenkrankheiten r?ckt immer st?rker in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses von Wissenschaft, Politik und ?ffentlichkeit. Tropenkrankheiten werden immer h?ufiger zu einer...

These notes present a polished introduction to tropical geometry and contain some applications of this rapidly developing and attractive subject. Tropical geometry is algebraic geometry over the...

In evolutionary time scales natural disturbances have affected the vegetation on Earth. During the Quaternary the forest biomes of the tropics were subjected to manifold disturbances. Climate changes...

The book captures a fascinating snapshot of the current state of results about the operator-norm convergent Trotter-Kato Product Formul on Hilbert and Banach spaces. It also includes results on the...

This book treats the computational use of social concepts as the focal point for the realisation of a novel class of socio-technical systems, comprising smart grids, public display environments, and...

The tragedy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has led to a rapid expansion in science directed at understanding tsunami and mitigating their hazard. A remarkable cross-section of this research was...

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was triggered by a 9. 15 magnitude earthquake (MELTZNER et al., 2006; CHLIEH et al., 2007) that occurred at 0:58:53 GMT, 7:58:53 LT (USGS) (t ). The epicenter was...

The 1993 Southwest Hokkaido Earthquake of Magnitude 7. 9 (July 12, 22: 17 JST) caused serious tsunami disasters in the southwestern part of Hokkaido, particularly on Okushiri Island (a tiny island...

In July 1998, I received an e-mail from Alfred Gray, telling me: " . . . I am in Bilbao and working on the second edition of Tubes . . . Tentatively, the new features of the book are: 1. Footnotes...

Turbotrains InternationalAuthor: StoffelsPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Jan 01, 1983Number of Pages: 135 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 376431172XISBN-13: 9783764311728

Turing's Revolution: The Impact of His Ideas about ComputabilityAuthor: Giovanni SommarugaPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Jan 29, 2016Number of Pages: 331 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

The extraordinary range of cultural interests of renowned physicist David Speiser-including the sciences, art, architecture, music, and history of science-has inspired generations of later scientists...

The theory of vertex operator algebras and their representations has been showing its power in the solution of concrete mathematical problems and in the understanding of conceptual but subtle...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anf?ngen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv...

Die Konjunktur springt an. Wird die Diskussion urn den Standort Deutschland verstummen? Sieher nieht. Der technologische Trend bleibt weiterhin die Arbeitsrationalisierung. Das gilt weItweit. Die...

*-algebras of unbounded operators in Hilbert space, or more generally algebraic systems of unbounded operators, occur in a natural way in unitary representation theory of Lie groups and in the...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, a leading physicist in the Manhattan Project, recognized that scientific inquiry and discovery could no longer be separated from their effect on political decision-making,...

Und Der Mensch Schuf Sich SelbstAuthor: Jonathan KingdonPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 371 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3034860676ISBN-13:...

The central subject matter of this book is Einstein's special theory of relativiry. While it is a book that is written primarily for a lay audience this does not necessarily mean an audience not...

Ungarische Lokomotiven Und TriebwagenAuthor: KopaszPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Aug 23, 2014Number of Pages: 343 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3034864469ISBN-13: 9783034864466

Das vorliegende Buch bem?ht sich zu beweisen, dass eine logische und technische Vereinheitlichung und Vereinigung aller Wissenszweige m?glich ist. Durch Vorf?hrung eines Proto-Modells soll gezeigt...

1 The Electromagnetic Program for the Synthesis of Physics.- 2 The General Theory of Relativity: The Core of the Program of Unified Field Theories.- 3 Weyl's Theory: The First Truly Geometrized...

The present Volume contains the contributions to the fourth meeting on Unilateral Problems in Structural Analysis, held at Capri on June 14 to 16,1989. The preceding meetings took place at Villa...

0 Basic Facts.- 1 Hey's Theorem and Consequences.- 2 Siegel-Weyl Reduction Theory.- 3 The Tamagawa Number and the Volume of G(?)/G(?).- 3.1 Statement of the main result.- 3.2 Proof of 3.1.- 3.3 The...

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Universal Algebraic Logic. The three main themes are (i) universal logic and the question of what logic is, (ii) duality theories between the world of...

John Corcoran was a very well-known logician who worked on several areas of logic. He produced decisive works giving a better understanding of two major figures in the history of logic, Aristotle and...

Universal Logic: An Anthology: From Paul Hertz to Dov GabbayAuthor: Jean-Yves B?ziauPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 02, 2012Number of Pages: 410 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...