Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
Combinatorial Designs and their Applications
1st Edition
By Kathleen Quinn, Bridget Webb, Chris Rowley, F C Holroyd
January 29, 1999
The fruit of a conference that gathered seven very active researchers in the field, Combinatorial Design and their Applications presents a wide but representative range of topics on the non-geometrical aspects of design theory. By concentrating on a few important areas, the authors succeed in ...
Elliptic Operators, Topology, and Asymptotic Methods
2nd Edition
By John Roe
January 06, 1999
Ten years after publication of the popular first edition of this volume, the index theorem continues to stand as a central result of modern mathematics-one of the most important foci for the interaction of topology, geometry, and analysis. Retaining its concise presentation but offering streamlined...
Generalized Functions, Operator Theory, and Dynamical Systems
1st Edition
By I Antoniou, G Lumer
December 23, 1998
Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine writes in his preface: "Irreversibility is a challenge to mathematics...[which] leads to generalized functions and to an extension of spectral analysis beyond the conventional Hilbert space theory." Meeting this challenge required new mathematical ...
Advances in Dual Integral Equations
1st Edition
By B N Mandal, Nanigopal Mandal
December 18, 1998
The effectiveness of dual integral equations for handling mixed boundary value problems has established them as an important tool for applied mathematicians. Their many applications in mathematical physics have prompted extensive research over the last 25 years, and many researchers have made ...
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications: Collge de France Seminar Volume XVIII
1st Edition
By Doina Cioranescu, Jacques-Louis Lions
August 15, 1998
This book presents the texts of selected lectures on recent work in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations delivered by leading international experts at the well-established weekly seminar held at the Collège de France. Emphasis is on applications to numerous areas, including ...
Strongly Irreducible Operators on Hilbert Space
1st Edition
By Chun Lan Jiang, Zong Yao Wang
May 01, 1998
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of strongly irreducible operators acting on a complex separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space, and to expose and reflect the internal structure of operators by analyzing and studying irreducibility of operators. Much of the material presented here...
Recent Advances in Differential Equations
1st Edition
By H-H Dai, P.L. Sachdev
April 01, 1998
The First Pan-China Conference on Differential Equations was held in Kunming, China in June of 1997. Researchers from around the world attended-including representatives from the US, Canada, and the Netherlands-but the majority of the speakers hailed from China and Hong Kong. This volume contains ...
Functional Analysis with Current Applications in Science, Technology and Industry
1st Edition
By Martin Brokate, Abul Hasan Siddiqi
December 08, 1997
This volume constitutes the proceedings of a conference on functional analysis and its applications, which took place in India during December 1996. Topics include topological vector spaces, Banach algebras, meromorphic functions, partial differential equations, variational equations and ...
Integral Methods in Science and Engineering
1st Edition
By Christian Constanda, Jukka Saranen, S Seikkala
October 08, 1997
Based on proceedings of the International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, this collection of papers addresses the solution of mathematical problems by integral methods in conjunction with approximation schemes from various physical domains. Topics and applications include...
Generalized Optimal Stopping Problems and Financial Markets
1st Edition
By Dennis Wong
November 07, 1996
Provides mathematicians and applied researchers with a well-developed framework in which option pricing can be formulated, and a natural transition from the theory of optimal stopping problems to the valuation of different kinds of options. With the introduction of generalized optimal stopping ...
Noncoercive Variational Problems and Related Results
1st Edition
By Daniel Goeleven
October 10, 1996
In establishing a general theory of the existence of solutions for noncoercive variational problems and constrained problems formulated as variational inequalities or hemivariational inequalities, this Research Note illustrates recent mathematical approaches and results with various examples from ...
Lectures on Bifurcations, Dynamics and Symmetry
1st Edition
By Michael Field
September 11, 1996
This book is an expanded version of a Master Class on the symmetric bifurcation theory of differential equations given by the author at the University of Twente in 1995. The notes cover a wide range of recent results in the subject, and focus on the dynamics that can appear in the generic ...