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Corporate Authors: Los Alamos Symposium on Mathematics in the Natural Sciences; Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Metropolis, N. Nicholas, 1915; Orszag, Steven A; Rota, Gian-Carlo, 1932-1999
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 1976.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Surveys in applied mathematics
Subjects:
Mathematics > Congresses
Science > Congresses
Science > Methodology > Congresses
MATHEMATICS > Essays
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus
MATHEMATICS > Reference
Mathematics
Science
Science > Methodology
Mathematics > Congresses
Science > Congresses
Science > Methodology > Congresses
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124921504
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781483258133
1483258130
Index Number: QA1
CLC: O1
Contents: ""Front Cover""; ""Surveys in Applied Mathematics: Essays dedicated to S.M. Ulam""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Chapter 1. On the Role of Applied Mathematics""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. WHAT IS APPLIED MATHEMATICS ?""; ""III. EDUCATION""; ""IV. RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""V. APPENDIX""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 2. On the Shape of a Curve""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 3. Automorphic Forms for Schottky Groups""; ""1. SCHOTTKY GROUPS""; ""2. SCHOTTKY SPACE AND AUGMENTED SCHOTTKY SPACE""; ""3. SCHOTTKY GROUPS AND RIEMANN SURFACES""
""4. POINCARE METRICS""""5. AUTOMORPHIC FORMS AND POINCARA ? SERIES""; ""6. PROOFS OF THEOREMS 2 AND 3""; ""7. PROOF OF THEOREM 4""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 4. Biased Versus Unbiased Estimation""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. THE JAMESa ?STEIN ESTIMATOR""; ""3. THREE EXAMPLES OF BIASED ESTIMATION IN PRACTICE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 5. Algorithms""; ""COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY""; ""SOME RECENT POSITIVE RESULTS""; ""ADDITIONAL COMMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 6. Whitney Numbers of Geometric Lattices""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1. PRELIMINARIES""
""2. THE SHEAVES Z AND M""""3. THE SHEAF W""; ""4. A SPECTRAL SEQUENCE""; ""5. STANDARD RESOLUTIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 7. Continued Fraction Expansion of Algebraic Numbers""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 8. Random Time Evolution of Infinite Particle Systems""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 9. Bifurcations in Reaction-Diffusion Problems""; ""I. BIFURCATION THEOREMS""; ""II. CHEMICAL WAVES AND REACTIONa ?DIFFUSION EQUATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 10. Singular Perturbation""; ""REFERENCES""
""Chapter 11. A Survey of Some Finite Element Methods Proposed for Treating the Dirichlet Problem""""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. THE NEUMANN PROBLEM""; ""3. THE DIRICHLET PROBLEM""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 12. The Mathematics of Quantum Fields""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 13. Renormalization Group Methods""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. MULTIPLE SCALES""; ""3. THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP: TECHNIQUE""; ""4. THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP: CONSEQUENCES""; ""5. OUTLOOK""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 14. Remarks on Turbulence Theory""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. THE DYNAMICAL EQUATIONS""
""3. ABSOLUTE EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS""""4. NONEQUILIBRIUM: CASCADE PHENOMENA""; ""5. EDDY VISCOSITY AND RENORMALIZATION""; ""6. CONVECTION INVARIANCE AND LAGRANGIAN COORDINATES""; ""7. WHAT CAN WE CALCULATE?""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 15. On an Explicitly Soluble System of Nonlinear Differential Equations Related to Certain Toda Lattices""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 16. Three Integrable Hamiltonian Systems Connected with Isospectral Deformations""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. ISOSPECTRAL DEFORMATIONS""

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