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Questions that arose from linear programming and combinatorial optimization have been a driving force for modern polytope theory, such as the diameter questions motivated by the desire to understand...

Poncelet Porisms and Beyond: Integrable Billiards, Hyperelliptic Jacobians and Pencils of QuadricsAuthor: Vladimir DragovicPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: May 06, 2011Number of Pages: 294...

Professor Hua Loo-Keng is the first person to have undertaken the task of popularizing mathematical methods in China. As early as 1958, he proposed that the application of operations research methods...

Das Projekt f?r dieses Buch entstand im Mai 1990 anl?sslich des j?hrlichen Treffens des populationsbiologischen Arbeitskreises der Gesellschaft f?r ?kologie (Gf?). Die Autoren m?chten damit den...

This text is based on a lecture course given by the authors in the framework of Oberwolfach Seminars at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in May, 2013. It is intended to serve as a...

Positive Operator Semigroups: From Finite to Infinite DimensionsAuthor: Andr?s B?tkaiPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Feb 20, 2017Number of Pages: 364 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book is devoted to the study of positive solutions to indefinite problems. The monograph intelligibly provides an extensive overview of topological methods and introduces new ideas and results...

This book presents nine survey articles addressing topics surrounding positivity, with an emphasis on functional analysis. The book assembles a wide spectrum of research into positivity, providing...

The study of poxviruses has a long and distinguished history that includes Jenner's founding work on smallpox vaccination. In the more than 200 years since that time we have seen the remarkable...

Das vorliegende Buch mit dem Titel "Praktikum der Radioaktivitat und der Radio- chemie" ist eine Neuausgabe des 1968 erschienenen "Praktikums der angewandten Radioaktivitat" von L. HERFORTH und H...

The primary mission of the medical school is to create new doctors. Once the medical student has received his or her doctorate, the medical school's interest in, and acceptance of, responsibility for...

One of the easiest things an anesthesiologist can do is to administer an anesthetic, and therein lies one of the major dangers of anesthesia. Like in flying and diving, if the rules are followed,...

This monograph bridges the gap between the nonlinear predictor as a concept and as a practical tool, presenting a complete theory of the application of predictor feedback to time-invariant, uncertain...

This book was written to make the material presented in my book, Stahlbetonbrucken, accessible to a larger number of engineers throughout the world. A work in English, the logical choice for this...

Trying to address the entire field of presynaptic modulation of neurotransmitter release is a rather daunting undertaking, one that is well beyond the scope of this book. In addition, studies of...

In the modern age of almost universal computer usage, practically every individual in a technologically developed society has routine access to the most up-to-date cryptographic technology that...

Many philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have wondered about the remarkable relationship between mathematics with its abstract, pure, independent structures on one side, and the wilderness...

Principles of Learning and Memory focuses on the most topical and central phenomena, which are discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view in five sections: formation, organization,...

This monograph introduces readers to locally conformally Kähler (LCK) geometry and provides an extensive overview of the most current results. A rapidly developing area in complex geometry dealing...

FirstEdition DUE TO THE necessity to save weight and materialin the design ofmodern structures and machines, stability problems have become increasingly im- portant. The classicalengineering approach...

Transfiniteness is an abstract mathematical concept that is extended by the author to the very real world of graphs and networks and the idea of random walks, topics of particular interest to...

Harmonic analysis and probability have long enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship that has been rich and fruitful. This monograph, aimed at researchers and students in these fields, explores...

This volume contains a selection of papers by the participants of the 6. International Conference on Probability in Banach Spaces, Sand- bjerg, Denmark, June 16-D1, 1986. The conference was attended...

The first international conference on Probability in Banach Spaces was held at Oberwolfach, West Germany, in 1975. It brought together European researchers who, under the inspiration of the Schwartz...

Probability limit theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces give conditions un- der which convergence holds uniformly over an infinite class of sets or functions. Early results in this direction were...

The papers contained in this volume are an indication of the topics th discussed and the interests of the participants of The 9 International Conference on Probability in Banach Spaces, held at...

Birkhauser Boston, Inc., will publish a series of carefully selected mono- graphs in the area of mathematical modeling to present serious applications of mathematics for both the undergraduate and...

Problem-Solving Methods in Combinatorics: An Approach to Olympiad ProblemsAuthor: Pablo Sober?nPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 05, 2013Number of Pages: 174 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Systeme. Es scheint, daB der neue Standpunkt immer neue Positionen gewinnt. Ungeachtet dessen sind die Anhanger der traditionellen Auffassung der An- sicht, daB viele Beobachtungen fiir sie sprachen...

Probleme Der Naturwissenschaften: Erl?utert Am Begriff Der MineralartAuthor: P. NiggliPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...