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Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures on Manifolds results from a similarly entitled conference held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The various contributions to this volume discuss recent advances in the areas of positive sectional curvature,...
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Birkhäuser
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2010-07-25
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Classical mechanics, one of the oldest branches of science, has undergone a long evolution, developing hand in hand with many areas of mathematics, including calculus, differential geometry, and the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The modern formulations of...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-07-30
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Integral transforms, such as the Laplace and Fourier transforms, have been major tools in mathematics for at least two centuries. In the last three decades the development of a number of novel ideas in algebraic geometry, category theory, gauge theory, and string theory...
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Birkhäuser
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2009-06-12
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Oscar Zariski’s work in mathematics permanently altered the foundations of algebraic geometry. The powerful tools he forged from the ideas of modern algebra allowed him to penetrate classical problems with an unaccustomed depth, and brought new rigor to the intuitive...
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Springer
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2008-12-23
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This volume uses a unified approach to representation theory and automorphic forms. It collects papers, written by leading mathematicians, that track recent progress in the expanding fields of representation theory and automorphic forms and their association with number...
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Birkhäuser
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2007-10-10
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This volume contains research and survey articles by well known and respected mathematicians describing recent developments and research trends in differential geometry and topology that have been collected and dedicated in honor of Lieven Vanhecke, as a tribute to...
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Birkhäuser
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2007-07-28
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One of the world’s foremost geometers, Alan Weinstein has made deep contributions to symplectic and differential geometry, Lie theory, mechanics, and related fields. Contributors to this text in Weinstein’s honor cover a broad range of topics: Induction and reduction...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2007-07-03
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This volume comprises lecture notes, survey and research articles originating from the CIMPA Summer School Arithmetic and Geometry around Hypergeometric Functions held at Galatasaray University, Istanbul, June 13-25, 2005. It covers a wide range of topics related to...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2007-06-28
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A tribute to the vision and legacy of Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, the invited papers in this volume reflect the unity of mathematics as a whole, with particular emphasis on the many connections among the fields of geometry, physics, and representation theory. Written by...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2007-05-31
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Hideki Omori is widely recognized as one of the world’s most creative and original mathematicians. This volume is dedicated toHideki Omori on the occasion of his retirement from Tokyo University of Science. His retirement was also celebrated in April 2004 with an...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2007-04-22
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In one sense, deformation theory is as old as algebraic geometry itself: this is because all algebro-geometric objects can be “deformed” by suitably varying the coef?cients of their de?ning equations, and this has of course always been known by the classical geometers....
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Springer
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2007-04-20
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This book documents the rich structure of the holomorphic Q function spaces which are geometric in the sense that they transform naturally under conformal mappings, with particular emphasis on the last few years' development based on interaction between geometric...
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Birkhäuser
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2006-11-15
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The main subject of this book is an up-to-date and in-depth survey of the theory of normal frames and coordinates in di?erential geometry.The existing results, as well as new ones obtained lately by the author, on the theme are presented.The text is so organized that it...
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Birkhäuser
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2006-11-10
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If you have not heard about cohomology, this book may be suited for you. Fundamental notions in cohomology for examples, functors, representable functors, Yoneda embedding, derived functors, spectral sequences, derived categories are explained in elementary fashion....
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Springer
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2006-11-08
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This lucid and accessible text provides an introductory guide to projective geometry, an area of mathematics concerned with the properties and invariants of geometric figures under projection. Including numerous worked examples and exercises throughout, the book covers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-08-03
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Noncompact symmetric and locally symmetric spaces naturally appear in many mathematical theories, including analysis (representation theory, nonabelian harmonic analysis), number theory (automorphic forms), algebraic geometry (modulae) and algebraic topology (cohomology...
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Birkhäuser
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2006-07-25
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Springer
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2006-07-09
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This book is a general introduction to the theory of schemes, followed by applications to arithmetic surfaces and to the theory of reduction of algebraic curves.
The first part introduces basic objects such as schemes, morphisms, base change, local properties...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-06-29
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"From nothing I have created a new different world," wrote János Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today. The results of Bolyai and the co-discoverer, the Russian...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-06-03
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This volume contains revised papers that were presented at the international workshop entitled Computational Methods for Algebraic Spline Surfaces (“COMPASS”), which was held from September 29 to October 3, 2003, at Schloß Weinberg, Kefermarkt (A- tria). The workshop...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-05-24
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