Screen LibraryFive decades as a mathematician and educator : on the 80th birthday of Professor Yung-Chow Wong /
Dedicated to Professor Yung-Chow Wong on his 80th birthday, this book contains a collection of articles from his former students and colleagues, as well as an article from Professor Wong himself, in which he tells the story of his early life.
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 1995. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2827#t=toc |
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Dedicated to Professor Yung-Chow Wong on his 80th birthday, this book contains a collection of articles from his former students and colleagues, as well as an article from Professor Wong himself, in which he tells the story of his early life. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi,581pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789812830777 |
| CLC: | O1 |
| Contents: | My early life, 1913-1948 / Yung-Chow Wong -- On the eigenvalues and numerical range of a quaternionic matrix / Yik-Hoi Au-Yeung -- Monopoles as fibre bundles and strings as infinite rank tensors / Hong-Mo Chan and Sheung Tsun Tsou -- Approximation by affine functions / Jor-Ting Chan -- A review on optimal design for mixture models / Ling-Yau Chan -- Griffiths' formalism on the calculus of variations via exterior differential systems / Wing-Sum Cheung -- Change of measures, likelihood ratio martingales and some applications / Tze Leung Lai -- Beyond the impossibility of a 16-square identity / Kee Yuen Lam and Paul Yiu -- Lie group homomorphisms which induce isomorphisms of representation rings / S.P. Lam -- A lifting theorem, and rings with isomorphic matrix rings / T.Y. Lam -- On ternary equations in square-free and prime variables / Yau-Luen Lau, Man-Cheung Leung and Ming-Chit Liu -- Instantons and three-manifolds / Ronnie Lee -- Some results on the c-numerical range / Chi-Kwong Li and Yiu-Tung Poon -- A matrix formulation of the complex flag manifolds / Qi-Keng Lu -- Invariants of strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds / Hing Sun Luk and Stephen S.-T. Yau -- The integral formulas of the Pontrjagin characteristic forms on an oriented differentiable manifold / Xiang-Ming Mei -- On the construction of tensor fields and connections on the frame bundle / Kam Ping Mok -- Cellular manufacturing systems: formulation and algorithmic issues / Shu Ming Ng -- Which inscribed N-gon in an ellipse has the longest perimeter? / Man Keung Siu and Kai Man Tsang -- Hyperbolicity problems in function theory / Yum-Tong Siu -- Extreme positive operators on convex cones / Bit-Shun Tam -- The golden mean and its way into physics / B.Y. Tong. |