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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage, qui est la these de doctorat d'Etat que j'ai soutenue devant l'Universite de Provence aAix-en-Provence le 30 juin 1988, mais alaquelle j'ai toutefois apporte posterieurement certaines rectifications, a pour objet la comparaison structurale du Tractatus de Wittgenstein avec I'Ethique de Spinoza. Monsieur le Professeur Gilles-Gaston Granger, qui m'a confie le soin de cette etude comparative et en a suivi I'elaboration, et auquel je renou velle ici l'expression de ma respectueuse gratitude, a perl;u la pensee de Wittgenstein comme une transposition moderne de la doctrine de Spinoza et illui a paru interessant de comparer les oeuvres representatives de ces deux auteurs que sont le Tractatus et l'Ethique. Les travaux de Martial Gueroult m'ont guide dans mes recherches en vue d'approfondir le systeme de I'Ethique et j'ai egalement mis aprofit les critiques qui ont ete formulees ala soutenance de ma these par Madame le Professeur Elisabeth Schwartz, presidente du jury. Je remercie l'Universite de Bäle, la Freiwillige Akademische Gesell schaft aBäle et la fondation Berta Hess-Cohn aBäle qui ont bien voulu financer I'edition de cet ouvrage. Et je suis reconnaissant aux Editions Birkhäuser a Bäle et particulierement a Monsieur Albert Gomm de I'at tention qu'ils ont apportee ason impression tout en respectant, dans la mesure du possible, la presentation materielle de ma these de doctorat.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 424 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The discoveries of the past decade have opened new perspectives for the old field of Hamiltonian systems and led to the creation of a new field: symplectic topology. Surprising rigidity phenomena demonstrate that the nature of symplectic map pings is very different from that of volume preserving mappings which raised new questions, many of them still unanswered. On the other hand, due to the analysis of an old variational principle in classical mechanics, global periodic phenomena in Hamiltonian systems have been established. As it turns out, these seemingly differ ent phenomena are mysteriously related. One of the links is a class of symplectic invariants, called symplectic capacities. These invariants are the main theme of this book which grew out of lectures given by the authors at Rutgers University, the RUB Bochum and at the ETH Zurich (1991) and also at the Borel Seminar in Bern 1992. Since the lectures did not require any previous knowledge, only a few and rather elementary topics were selected and proved in detail. Moreover, our se lection has been prompted by a single principle: the action principle of mechanics. The action functional for loops in the phase space, given by 1 Fh) = J pdq -J H(t, 'Y(t)) dt , 'Y 0 differs from the old Hamiltonian principle in the configuration space defined by a Lagrangian. The critical points of F are those loops 'Y which solve the Hamiltonian equations associated with the Hamiltonian H and hence are the periodic orbits.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In November 2001 the Mathematical Research Center at Oberwolfach, Germany, hosted the third Conference on Mathematical Models and Numerical Simulation in Electronic Industry. It brought together researchers in mathematics, electrical engineering and scientists working in industry.The contributions to this volume try to bridge the gap between basic and applied mathematics, research in electrical engineering and the needs of industry.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume began as the last part of a one-term graduate course given at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences in the Autumn of 1993. The course was one of four associated with the 1993-94 Fields Institute programme, which I helped to organise, entitled 'Artin L-functions'. Published as [132]' the final chapter of the course introduced a manner in which to construct class-group valued invariants from Galois actions on the algebraic K-groups, in dimensions two and three, of number rings. These invariants were inspired by the analogous Chin burg invariants of [34], which correspond to dimensions zero and one. The classical Chinburg invariants measure the Galois structure of classical objects such as units in rings of algebraic integers. However, at the 'Galois Module Structure' workshop in February 1994, discussions about my invariant (0,1 (L/ K, 3) in the notation of Chapter 5) after my lecture revealed that a number of other higher-dimensional co homological and motivic invariants of a similar nature were beginning to surface in the work of several authors. Encouraged by this trend and convinced that K-theory is the archetypical motivic cohomology theory, I gratefully took the opportunity of collaboration on computing and generalizing these K-theoretic invariants. These generalizations took several forms - local and global, for example - as I followed part of number theory and the prevalent trends in the 'Galois Module Structure' arithmetic geometry.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Biomolecular studies are the trial of Man to understand how Nature manages information at the molecular level. The understanding of molecular informa tion handling in nature is essential for the molecular optimization in chem istry, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology and therefore - as an ex ample - for the development of specifically acting drugs. The famous recent method of technical information management is digital electronics. Over the past few years, evidence has arisen that computerized and molecular information managements have many similar and overlapping aspects. For example, both technology and nature use digitized information and both use small structures for the efficient handling of information. Furthermore, they optimize their processes in order to gain a maximum of information with a minimum of invested energy. During the last two decades, novel experimental techniques in biomolec ular sciences have paved the way for artificial biomolecular optimization. In the same time interval, the progress of micro system technology has been extended from the field of digital electronics and sensing to micro liquid hand ling, and the field of chip-supported substance handling began. It appears that the 'marriage' of physical micro technology and molecular processing will be consummated soon. The contact of both fields has been realized in for ex ample DNA chips. Such connections will also become relevant in additional fields in the near future. Biomolecular investigations are the first to profit from these fast growing scientific and technical connections between micro systems and molecular sciences.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 608 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Table of Contents of Volume I.- Articles by Plenary Speakers.- The Mathematics of M-Theory.- Probabilistic Aspects of Financial Risk.- Flags and Lattice Basis Reduction.- Moduli, Motives, Mirrors.- The Role of Oscillations in Some Nonlinear Problems.- New Families of Solutions in N-Body Problems.- Irreducible Modular Representations of a Reductive p-Adic Group and Simple Modules for Hecke Algebras.- Dequantization of Real Algebraic Geometry on Logarithmic Paper.- Articles by Parallel Speakers.- Advances on Extremal Problems in Number Theory and Combinatorics.- Spectral Analysis of Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics.- Spectrum and Statistical Properties of Chaotic Dynamics.- Sampling in Complex and Harmonic Analysis.- Lower Bounds for Shape Resonance Widths of Schrödinger Operators.- A Conjecture of De Giorgi on Symmetry for Elliptic Equations in n.- The Random Graph Revisited.- Difference Fields: Model Theory and Applications to Number Theory.- Geometric Aspects of Polynomial Interpolation in More Variables and of Waring's Problem.- The Calibration Method for Free Discontinuity Problems.- Geometry on Arc Spaces of Algebraic Varieties.- Stacks for Everybody.- Multiple -Values, Galois Groups, and Geometry of Modular Varieties.- Heat Kernels on Manifolds, Graphs and Fractals.- Local Langlands Correspondences and Vanishing Cycles on Shimura Varieties.- Burgers Turbulence and Dynamical Systems.- Random Growth and Random Matrices.- Sobolev Spaces and Quasiconformal Mappings on Metric Spaces.- Understanding Skyrmions Using Rational Maps.- Models for the Leaf Space of a Foliation.- Multivariable Hypergeometric Functions.- Contact Structures, Rational Curves and Mori Theory.- Analytic Topology.- Towards Ryser's Conjecture.- The Dynamics of Algebraic d-Actions.- Self-Interacting Random Motions.- Harmonic Analysis on Reductive Symmetric Spaces.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überwachen die Behörden der Länder die Einhaltung der Vorschriften, die für das Inverkehrbringen und die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln gelten. Das Pflanzenschutz-Kontrollprogramm ist ein bundesweit harmonisiertes Programm zur Überwachung pflanzenschutzrechtlicher Vorschriften. Die Durchführung und Berichterstattung der Kontrollen erfolgten nach gemeinsamen Standards der Länder auf Grundlage eines abgestimmten Handbuches. Die Festlegung von Kontrolltatbeständen und die Betriebsauswahl erfolgt durch die Länder; zusätzlich werden bundesweite Kontrollschwerpunkte festgelegt. Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse des Jahres 2011 zusammen. Bundesweit wurden in 2.545 Handelsbetrieben Verkehrskontrollen durchgeführt und in 5.367 Betrieben der Landwirtschaft, des Gartenbaus und der Forstwirtschaft Betriebs- oder Anwendungskontrollen vorgenommen. Im Rahmen der Überwachung der Verordnung über Pflanzenschutzmittel und Pflanzenschutzgeräte (Pflanzenschutzmittelverordnung) wurden des Weiteren 70.063 Pflanzenschutzgeräte von amtlichen bzw. amtlich anerkannten Kontrollstellen überprüft. Die Zusammensetzung und physikalische, chemische und technische Eigenschaften von 197 Pflanzenschutzmitteln wurden untersucht.¿Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 44 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die fachgerechte Erbebensicherung von Bauwerken ist heute nicht mehr eine Frage der Erkenntnisse, sondern eine Frage der Ausbildung von Bauingenieuren und Architekten und somit der Umsetzung vorhandenen Wissens in die Praxis. Durch wenige gezielte Massnahmen konzeptioneller und konstruktiver Art sowie durch eine problemgerechte Berechnung und Bemessung kann das Schadenrisiko drastisch vermindert und ein hoher Schutzgrad gegen Einsturz erreicht werden. Das Buch ist auf die Bedürfnisse des praktisch tätigen Bauingenieurs ausgerichtet; mit seiner starken Gewichtung des erbebengerechten Entwurfs hilft es, konzeptionelle Fehler und Mängel zu vermeiden, da diese auch durch eine noch so ausgeklügelte ingenieurmässige Berechnung und Bemessung nicht kompensiert werden können. Das Buch gibt aber auch zahlreiche Hinweise zu aktuellen Forschungsthemen.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 316 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die in Europa bis Ende der 1980er Jahre bestehende Grenze zwischen unterschiedlichen Gesellschaftssystemen, insbesondere die innerdeutsche Grenze, hat die individuellen Biografien von Bürgern vital beeinflusst. Auch die Wissenschaftler, u.a. die Mathematiker, waren weitaus mehr betroffen, als nach außen hin sichtbar war. Der Autor, der das Ende der Teilung in der Mitte seiner beruflichen Laufbahn in Berlin erlebte, schildert in autobiografischen Skizzen die Spezifik dieser Situation, anknüpfend an Inhalte der Ausbildung in der Schule und des Studiums im Osten Deutschlands, bis hin zu Innenansichten aus Institutionen wie dem Karl-Weierstrass-Institut der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin, anschließend der Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe Partielle Differentialgleichungen und Komplexe Analysis, sowie dem Institut für Mathematik an der Universität Potsdam. Beleuchtet werden weiterhin die erlebten Sichten der Gesellschaftssysteme auf eine exakte Wissenschaft wie die Mathematik, die Organisation in Instituten, Haltungen zur Zweckbestimmung reiner und angewandter Forschung in der Mathematik, Aspekte der Wissenschaftsförderung, sowie individuelle und teilweise kontroverse Standpunkte. Da Probleme um die Mathematik, etwa ihre Triebkräfte, das Zusammenspiel ihrer Spezialgebiete und ihr Einfluss auf Naturwissenschaften, Technologie und viele Bereiche des täglichen Lebens nicht immer leicht verständlich gemacht werden können, ist in der Darstellung ein überwiegend unterhaltsamer und teilweise unkonventioneller Ton gewählt. Er soll auch die Tragik ein wenig vergessen machen, die mit Verlusten von Potentialen und wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten in dem vergangenen System verbunden war.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 268 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der Autor informiert über die unterschiedlichen Bestimmungen in den Landesbauordnungen, Normen und Gesetzen sowie über die brandtechnischen Eigenschaften von Baustoffen und Bauteilen. Neben den Anforderungen für den Wohnungsbau werden auch die Bestimmungen für den Industrie- und Sonderbau sowie die Möglichkeiten und Probleme bei der Sanierung von Gebäuden behandelt.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 360 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Holz im Außenbereich sind vielfältig. Wesentliche Anwendungen sind Überdachungen von Freiräumen, Fassaden, Türme, Brücken, aber auch sogenannte kleine Holzbauwerke wie Balkone, Pergolen, Zäune und Palisaden. Dabei stellen Freibewitterung und zum Teil auch Erdkontakt hohe Belastungen für den Baustoff Holz dar. Die Schutzmöglichkeiten für das exponierte Holz und das Vermeiden von konstruktiven Fehlern und damit letztendlich von Schäden sind deshalb Schwerpunkte dieses Buches. Der Holzschutz wird hier im umfassenden Sinne gesehen: die Wahl der Holzart, die baukonstruktive Ausbildung, bei Erfordernis der chemische Schutz und eine schützende Oberflächenbehandlung. Bei der Einstufung der Bauteile in Gefährdungsklassen, bei der Einordnung der Holzarten nach ihrer Dauerhaftigkeit und der Erfordernis oder besser Nichterfordernis eines chemischen Schutzes werden die Euro-Normen zugrunde gelegt und damit das aktuelle und zukünftige Regelwerk. Für die Beurteilung des Brandverhaltens und des Brandschutzes von Außenbauteilen wird die neue Musterbauordnung herangezogen, die dem Holzbau neue Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele werden durch Fotos und Skizzen erläutert.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 208 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -eine Assistentenstelle bei GERHARD HARIG am bereits 1906 gegründeten Karl-Sudhoff-Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Naturwissenschaften in Leipzig, die er anderen Angeboten (z. B. beim Flugzeugbau) vorzog. Nach dem Tode von Professor HARIG bekam HANS WUSSING 1967 (als einziger habilitierter Wissenschaftshistoriker in der DDR) eine Dozentur für Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften und wurde zum kommissarischen Direktor des Sudhoff-Instituts eingesetzt. Ein Jahr später wurde er zum a. o. Professor für Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften berufen, 1970 erfolgte die Ernennung zum ordent lichen Professor. Von 1977 bis 1982 war er Direktor des Sudhoff-Instituts und ist seit 1982 Leiter der Abteilung für Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften. Die Reihe von WUSSINGs Publikationen ist lang. Eine Liste seiner Veröffentlichungen bis 1985 findet sich in der Zeitschrift NTM, Bd. 24 (1987), S. 1-5. Es ist hier nicht der Ort, all seine Arbeiten im einzelnen zu würdigen. Erwähnt seien nur die wichtigsten Buchpublikationen: 1962 erschien bei B. G. Teubner Leipzig die Mathematik in der Antike. WUSSING verfaßte Biographien von COPERNICUS, GAUSS, NEWTON und ADAM RIES. Auch seine neueste Publikation hat mit dem bekannten deutschen Rechenmeister zu tun: Die Goß von ADAM RIES konnte er trotz schwie rigster Umstände zusammen mit WOLFGANG KAUNZNER noch rechtzeitig im Jubiläumsjahr 1992 herausgeben. WUSSING ist auch ein erfolgreicher Hochschullehrer.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 800 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Fractals in Biology and Medicine' explores the potential of fractal geometry for describing and understanding biological organisms, their development and growth as well as their structural design and functional properties. It extends these notions to assess changes associated with disease in the hope to contribute to the understanding of pathogenetic processes in medicine. The book is the first comprehensive presentation of the importance of the new concept of fractal geometry for biological and medical sciences. It collates in a logical sequence extended papers based on invited lectures and free communications presented at a symposium in Ascona, Switzerland, attended by leading scientists in this field, among them the originator of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot. 'Fractals in Biology and Medicine' begins by asking how the theoretical construct of fractal geometry can be applied to biomedical sciences and then addresses the role of fractals in the design and morphogenesis of biological organisms as well as in molecular and cell biology. The consideration of fractal structure in understanding metabolic functions and pathological changes is a particularly promising avenue for future research. 397 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the key concerns in modern control theory is the design of steering strategies. The implementation of such strategies is done by a regulator. Presented here is a self-contained introduction to the mathematical background of this type of regulator design. The topics selected address the matter of greatest interest to the control community, at present, namely, when the design objective is the reduction of the influence of exogeneous disturbances upon the output of the system. In a first scenario the disturbance signal is regarded as a deterministic time series with known dynamics but unknown parameters. The design objective is then the asymptotic disturbance compensation. In a second scenario, no information about the disturbance signal is available apart from some bounds. Here, in an H-approach, control strategies are worked out which will prove efficient for all such disturbances. The intention of this book is to present ideas and methods on such a level that the beginning graduate student will be able to follow current research. New results are included, especially for nonlinear control systems, and as a service to the reader, an extensive appendix presents topics from linear algebra, invariant manifolds and calculus of variations, information which is hardly to be found in standard textbooks. Contents: Introduction - The problem of output regulation - Introduction - Problem statement - Output regulation via full information - Output regulation via full error feedback - A particular case - Well-posedness and robustness - The construction of a robust regulator - Disturbance attenuation via H-methods - Introduction - Problem statement - A characterization of the L2-gain of a linear system - Disturbance attenuation via full information - Disturbance attenuation via measured feedback - Full information regulators - Problem statement - Time-dependent control strategies - Examples - Time-independent control strategies- The local case - Nonlinear observers - Problem statement - Time-dependent observers - Error feedback regulators - Examples - Nonlinear H-techniques - Introduction - Construction of the saddle-point - The local scenario - Disturbance attenuation via linearization - Matrix equations - Linear matrix equations - Algebraic Riccati equations - Invariant manifolds - Existence theorem - Outflowing manifolds - Asymptotic phase - Convergence for T - A special case - Dichotomies and Lyapunov functions - Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs equation - Introduction - Method of characteristics - The equation of Isaacs - The Hamiltonian version of Isaacs' equation - Bibliography 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The controversy between the wave theory and the emission theory of light early in the nineteenth century has been a subject of numerous studies. Yet many is sues remain unclear, in particular, the reasons for rejecting Young's theory of light. It appears that further progress in the field requires a better grasp of the overall situation in optics and related subjects at the time and a more thorough study of every factor suggested to be of importance for the dispute. This book is intended to be a step in this direction. It examines the impact of the concept of interference of light on the development of the early nineteenth century optics in general, and the theory of light, in particular. This is not a his tory of the wave theory of light, nor is it a history of the debate on the nature of light in general: it covers only that part of the controversy which involved the concept of interference. Although the book deals with a number of scientists, scientific institutions, and journals, its main character is a scientific concept, the principle of interference. While discussing the reasons for accepting or rejecting this concept I have primarily focused on scientific factors, although in some cases the human factor is examined as well. The book is a revised Ph. D. dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1984) writ ten under Alan E. Shapiro. 271 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The school, the book This book is based on lectures given by the authors of the various chapters in a three week long CIMPA summer school, held in Sophia-Antipolis (near Nice) in July 1992. The first week was devoted to the basics of symplectic and Riemannian geometry (Banyaga, Audin, Lafontaine, Gauduchon), the second was the technical one (Pansu, Muller, Duval, Lalonde and Sikorav). The final week saw the conclusion ofthe school (mainly McDuffand Polterovich, with complementary lectures by Lafontaine, Audin and Sikorav). Globally, the chapters here reflect what happened there. Locally, we have tried to reorganise some ofthe material to make the book more coherent. Hence, for instance, the collective (Audin, Lalonde, Polterovich) chapter on Lagrangian submanifolds and the appendices added to some of the chapters. Duval was not able to write up his lectures, so that genuine complex analysis will not appear in the book, although it is a very current tool in symplectic and contact geometry (and conversely). Hamiltonian systems and variational methods were the subject of some of Sikorav's talks, which he also was not able to write up. On the other hand, F. Labourie, who could not be at the school, wrote a chapter on pseudo-holomorphic curves in Riemannian geometry. 331 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many physical problems are meaningfully formulated in a cylindrical domain. When the size of the cylinder goes to infinity, the solutions, under certain symmetry conditions, are expected to be identical in every cross-section of the domain. The proof of this, however, is sometimes difficult and almost never given in the literature. The present book partially fills this gap by providing proofs of the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to various important cases of linear and nonlinear problems in the theory of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.The book is a valuable resource for graduates and researchers in applied mathematics and for engineers. Many results presented here are original and have not been published elsewhere. They will motivate and enable the reader to apply the theory to other problems in partial differential equations. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In several proofs from the theory of finite-dimensional Lie algebras, an essential contribution comes from the Jordan canonical structure of linear maps acting on finite-dimensional vector spaces. On the other hand, there exist classical results concerning Lie algebras which advise us to use infinite-dimensional vector spaces as well. For example, the classical Lie Theorem asserts that all finite-dimensional irreducible representations of solvable Lie algebras are one-dimensional. Hence, from this point of view, the solvable Lie algebras cannot be distinguished from one another, that is, they cannot be classified. Even this example alone urges the infinite-dimensional vector spaces to appear on the stage. But the structure of linear maps on such a space is too little understood; for these linear maps one cannot speak about something like the Jordan canonical structure of matrices. Fortunately there exists a large class of linear maps on vector spaces of arbi trary dimension, having some common features with the matrices. We mean the bounded linear operators on a complex Banach space. Certain types of bounded operators (such as the Dunford spectral, Foiadecomposable, scalar generalized or Colojoara spectral generalized operators) actually even enjoy a kind of Jordan decomposition theorem. One of the aims of the present book is to expound the most important results obtained until now by using bounded operators in the study of Lie algebras. 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The English edition differs only slightly from the Russian original. The main struc tural difference is that all the material on the theory of finite noncooperative games has been collected in Chapter 2, with renumbering of the material of the remain ing chapters. New sections have been added in this chapter: devoted to general questions of equilibrium theory in nondegenerate games, subsections 3.9-3.17, by N.N. Vorob'ev, Jr.; and 4, by A.G. Chernyakov; and 5, by N.N. Vorob'ev, Jr., on the computational complexity of the process of finding equilibrium points in finite games. It should also be mentioned that subsections 3.12-3.14 in Chapter 1 were written by E.B. Yanovskaya especially for the Russian edition. The author regrets that the present edition does not reflect the important game-theoretical achievements presented in the splendid monographs by E. van Damme (on the refinement of equilibrium principles for finite games), as well as those by J.e. Harsanyi and R. Selten, and by W. Giith and B. Kalkofen (on equilibrium selection). When the Russian edition was being written, these direc tions in game theory had not yet attained their final form, which appeared only in quite recent monographs; the present author has had to resist the temptation of attempting to produce an elementary exposition of the new theories for the English edition; readers of this edition will find only brief mention of the new material. 496 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth European Multigrid Conference, held in Amsterdam, July 6-9,1993. There were 78 registered participants from 14 different countries, and 56 presentations were given. The preceding conferences in this series were held in Cologne (1981, 1985) and in Bonn (1990). Also at the other side of the Atlantic special multigrid conferences are held regularly, at intervals of two years, always in Copper Mountain, Colorado, US. The Sixth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods took place in April, 1993. Circumstances prevented us from putting a larger time interval between the Copper and Amsterdam meetings. The next European meeting is planned in 1996, a year later than the next Copper Meeting. When the first multigrid conference was held in 1981 there was no doubt about the usefulness of a conference dedicated specially to multigrid, because multigrid was a new and relatively unexplored subject, still in a pioneering stage, and pursued by specialists. The past twenty years have shown a rapid growth in theoretical understanding, useful applications and widespread acceptance of multi grid in the applied disciplines. Hence, one might ask whether there is still a need today for conferences specially dedicated to multigrid. The general consensus is that the answer is affirmative. New issues have arisen that are best addressed or need also be addressed from a special multigrid point of view. 358 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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 of contemporary singularity theory. Its idea emerged during two Singularities workshops held at the University of Lille (USTL) in 1999 and 2000. Due to the breadth of singularity theory, a single volume can hardly give the complete picture of today's progress. Nevertheless, this collection of papers provides a good snapshot of what is the state of affairs in the field, at the turn of the century. Several papers deal with global aspects of singularity theory. Classification of fam ilies of plane curves with prescribed singularities were among the first problems in algebraic geometry. Classification of plane cubics was known to Newton and classification of quartics was achieved by Klein at the end of the 19th century. The problem of classification of curves of higher degrees was addressed in numerous works after that. In the paper by Artal, Carmona and Cogolludo, the authors de scribe irreducible sextic curves having a singular point of type An (n 15) and a large (Le. , :::: 18) sum of Milnor numbers of other singularities. They have discov ered many interesting properties of these families. In particular they have found new examples of so-called Zariski pairs, i. e. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These proceedings contain the main topics and results presented at the Fourth International Conference on Multivariate Approximation. The meeting took place during the week of September 24-29, 2000 at the now well-known 'Haus Bommerholz', the guest-house of the University of Dortmund. It hosted 43 participants from 16 countries, and the program included 9 invited one-hour lectures, 21 contributed talks, and two problem sessions. The articles collected here are carefully peer-refereed and suitably edited for publication. Following the tradition of this series of conferences, the meeting was aimed at advancing selected topics of Multivariate Approximation Theory. These include approximation on compact sets (such as spheres, balls, or compact ho mogeneous manifolds), spherical designs and energy functionals, interpolation by radial basis functions and by splines, frame theory and Gabor analysis, re finable function systems and subdivision, properties of harmonic, polyharmonic and blending functions, sampling and data compression, among others. The editors would like to express their thanks to all who have given their sup port to the conference, and to the preparation of this book. In particular, our thanks go to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for their funding of the con ference, to the University of Dortmund, and to the staff of Haus Bommerholz for their help running the conference, and to the Universities of Dortmund and Duisburg for the financial support of this proceedings volume. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of 'PDE 2000', the international conference on partial differential equations held July 24 -28, 2000, in Clausthal. The confer ence took place during the EXPO 2000 and was sponsored by the Land Nieder sachsen, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Bergstadt Clausthal-Zellerfeld and the Kreissparkasse Clausthal-Zellerfeld. This conference continues a series: Ludwigfelde 1976, Reinhardsbrunn 1985, Holz hau 1988, Breitenbrunn 1990, Lambrecht 1991 (proceedings in Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 57, Birkhauser Verlag 1992), Potsdam 1992 and 1993, Holzhau 1994 (proceedings in Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 78, Birkhauser Verlag 1995), Caputh 1995 and Potsdam 1996 (proceedings in Mathematical Research, Vol. 100, Akademie Verlag 1997). The intention of the organizers was to bring together specialists from different areas of modern analysis, mathematical physics and geometry, to discuss not only the recent progress in their own fields but also the interaction between these fields. The special topics of the conference were spectral and scattering theory, semiclas sical and asymptotic analysis, pseudodifferential operators and their relation to geometry, as well as partial differential operators and their connection to stochas tic analysis and to the theory of semigroups. The scientific advisory board of the conference in Clausthal consisted of M. Ben Artzi (Jerusalem), Chen Hua (Peking), M. Demuth (Clausthal), T. Ichinose (Kanazawa), 1. Rodino (Thrin), B.-W. Schulze (Potsdam) and J. Sjostrand (Paris). 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding mathematician and personality, Vladimir Petrovich Potapov, who made important contributions to and exerted considerable influence in the areas of operator theory, complex analysis and their points of juncture. The book commences with insightful biographical material, and then presents a collection of papers on different aspects of operator theory and complex analysis covering those recent achievements of the Odessa-Kharkov school in which Potapov was very active. The papers deal with interrelated problems and methods. The main topics are the multiplicative structure of contractive matrix and operator functions, operators in spaces with indefinite scalar products, inverse problems for systems of differential equations, interpolation and approximation problems for operator and matrix functions. The book will appeal to a wide group of mathematicians and engineers, and much of the material can be used for advanced courses and seminars. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Following 50 years of glucocorticoid use in a clinical setting, an international body of expert scientists and physicians presents the most expansive survey of glucocorticoid pharmacology to date. This work traces the history of glucocorticoid biology from the seminal description of glucocorticoid insufficiency by Thomas Addison in the mid-19th century, up to current advances in elucidating the molecular basis of glucocorticoid action. Important discoveries are presented, as well as milestones in drug development, a survey of current clinical practice, and prospects for novel glucocorticoid-based therapeutics. Scientists and clinicians will appreciate the scope of this work, which is of special interest to workers in the fields of endocrinology, inflammation and autoimmune disease. 205 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains a selection of papers in modern operator theory and its applications. Most of them are directly related to lectures presented at the Inter national Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications held at the University of Groningen (IWOTA-98) in Groningen, the Netherlands, from June 30-July 3, 1998. The workshop was attended by 97 mathematicians-of which 12 were PhD or postdoctoral students-from 19 countries. The program consisted of 19 plenary lectures of 40 minutes and 72 lectures of 30 minutes in 4 parallell sessions. The present volume reflects the wide range and rich variety of topics presented and discussed at the workshop. The papers deal with operator polynomials and analytic operator functions, with spectral problems of (partial) differential oper ators and related operator matrices, with interpolation, completion and extension problems, with commutant lifting and dilation, with Ricatti equations and real ization problems, with scattering theory, with problems from harmonic analysis, and with topics in the theory of reproducing kernel spaces and of spaces with an indefinite metric. All papers underwent the usual refereeing process. 558 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -22 papers on control of nonlinear partial differential equations highlight the area from a broad variety of viewpoints. They comprise theoretical considerations such as optimality conditions, relaxation, or stabilizability theorems, as well as the development and evaluation of new algorithms. A significant part of the volume is devoted to applications in engineering, continuum mechanics and population biology. 402 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference on ' Operator Calculus and Spectral Theory' in Lambrecht, Germany, Decem ber 9. - 14. , 1991, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and by the Karl-Weierstrass-Institute of Mathematics, Berlin. The idea was to bring together specialists from different areas of modern analysis, geometry and mathematical physics, in a similar spirit as in the earlier series of conferences of the Karl-Weierstrass- Institute (Ludwigsfelde, 1976; Reinhardsbrunn, 1985; Holzhau, 1988; Breitenbrunn,1990). Berlin, Mainz M. Demuth B. Gramsch B. -W. Schulze List of talks given in La. brecht. 8. - 14. December 91 Name Title S. Albeverio Some recent deveiopments in Dirichlet forms and associated processes U. Bunke On the spectral flow of Dirac operators with negative definite functions as symbols - applications in probability theory and mathematical physics M. Combescure Recurrent versus diffusive behaviour for time-dependent quantum Hamiltonian E. B. Davies Analysis on graphs and noncommutative geometry M. Demuth On stochastic spectral analysis and asymptotics for Schrodinger operators P. Duclos A global approach to the location of quantum resonances v. v. Egorov On negative spectrum of elliptic operators V. EnB Non-threshold states of long-range N-body problems B. Gramsch -algebras and microlocal analysis P. B. Gilkey On the index of geometrical operators for Riemannian manifolds with boundary B. Helffer Spectral problems in statistical mechanics R. Hempe I Second order pertubations of elliptic operators with periodic principal part T. Ichinose On the Weyl quantized relativistic Hamiltonian V. V. 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since 1976 the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (formerly the Department of Mathematics of INCREST) and the Faculty of Mathematics (formerly the Faculty of Sciences) of the University ofTimi~oara have organized several Con ferences on Operator Theory. These Conferences were held yearly in Timi~oara (or in Timi~oara and Herculane) and beginning with 1985 they were held in Bucharest (1985,1986), in Timi~oara (1988) and in Predeal (1990). At the beginning, these Conferences answered the need of a part of the Romanian Mathematical Community ofexploring other forms of survival, after the dissolution of the Institute of Mathematics in 1975. Soon, these meetings evolved to International Conferences with a broad participation and where important results in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras and their interplay with Complex Function Theory, Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, System Theory, etc. were presented. The 14th Conference on Operator Theory was held between June 1st and June 5th 1992, at the University ofTimi~oara. It was partially supported by the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy and by the Faculty of Mathematics of the University ofTimi~oara. Another important contribution towards covering the costs of this meeting came from The Soros Foundation for an Open Society. Without this generous help the organizing of this event would be impossible. Since 1980, the Proceedings of OT Conferences were published by Birkhauser Verlag in the series Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. The abstracts of the talks were collected in the Conference Report, published by the University of Timi~oara. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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, consolidation, control, and adaptive specialization of memories. The editors present state-of-the-art reviews that cover the experimental analysis of behavior, as well as the biological basis of learning and memory, and that overcome traditional borders separating disciplines. The chapters present and evaluate core findings of human learning and memory that are obtained in different fields of research and on different levels of analysis (e.g. cellular, neural network, behavioral level). The volume provides an integrated pattern of results wherever this is possible. The reader acquires a broad and integrated perspective of human learning and memory based on current approaches. This textbook is of interest to researchers and advanced students in biology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. 380 pp. Englisch.