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| Author | : Thomas King |
| Publisher | : House of Anansi |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 0887846963 |
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
| Author | : Juan M Maldacena |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 571 |
| Release | : 2005-07-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9814479845 |
Intended mainly for advanced graduate students in theoretical physics, this comprehensive volume covers recent advances in string theory and field theory dualities. It is based on the annual lectures given at the School of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (2003) a traditional event that brings together graduate students in high energy physics for an intensive course given by leaders in their fields.The first lecture by Paul Aspinwall is a description of branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, which includes an introduction to the modern ideas of derived categories and their relation to D-branes. Juan Maldacena's second lecture is a short introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence with a short discussion on its plane wave limit. Tachyon condensation for open strings is discussed in the third lecture by Ashoke Sen while Eva Silverstein provides a useful summary of the various attempts to produce four-dimensional physics out of string theory and M-theory in the fourth lecture. Matthew Strassler's fifth lecture is a careful discussion of a theory that has played a very important role in recent developments in string theory — a quantum field theory that produces a duality cascade which also has a large N gravity description. The sixth lecture by Washington Taylor explains how to perform perturbative computations using string field theory.The written presentation of these lectures is detailed yet straightforward, and they will be of great use to both students and experienced researchers in high energy theoretical physics.
| Author | : John Roe |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0821833324 |
Coarse geometry is the study of spaces (particularly metric spaces) from a 'large scale' point of view, so that two spaces that look the same from a great distance are actually equivalent. This book provides a general perspective on coarse structures. It discusses results on asymptotic dimension and uniform embeddings into Hilbert space.
| Author | : Jörg Desel |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 857 |
| Release | : 2004-06-14 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3540222618 |
This tutorial volume originates from the 4th Advanced Course on Petri Nets, ACPN 2003, held in Eichstätt, Germany in September 2003. In addition to lectures given at ACPN 2003, additional chapters have been commissioned to give a well-balanced presentation of the state of the art in the area. This book will be useful as both a reference for those working in the area as well as a study book for the reader who is interested in an up-to-date overview of research and development in concurrent and distributed systems; of course, readers specifically interested in theoretical or applicational aspects of Petri nets will appreciate the book as well.
| Author | : Mitchell A. Berger |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009-05-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3642008372 |
Helmholtz's seminal paper on vortex motion (1858) marks the beginning of what is now called topological fluid mechanics.After 150 years of work, the field has grown considerably. In the last several decades unexpected developments have given topological fluid mechanics new impetus, benefiting from the impressive progress in knot theory and geometric topology on the one hand, and in mathematical and computational fluid dynamics on the other. This volume contains a wide-ranging collection of up-to-date, valuable research papers written by some of the most eminent experts in the field. Topics range from fundamental aspects of mathematical fluid mechanics, including topological vortex dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, integrability issues, Hamiltonian structures and singularity formation, to DNA tangles and knotted DNAs in sedimentation. A substantial introductory chapter on knots and links, covering elements of modern braid theory and knot polynomials, as well as more advanced topics in knot classification, provides an invaluable addition to this material.
| Author | : Joel David Hamkins |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2021-02-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0262362651 |
An introduction to the philosophy of mathematics grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice. In this book, Joel David Hamkins offers an introduction to the philosophy of mathematics that is grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice. He treats philosophical issues as they arise organically in mathematics, discussing such topics as platonism, realism, logicism, structuralism, formalism, infinity, and intuitionism in mathematical contexts. He organizes the book by mathematical themes--numbers, rigor, geometry, proof, computability, incompleteness, and set theory--that give rise again and again to philosophical considerations.
| Author | : Thomas Duquesne |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2010-09-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3642140076 |
Focusing on the breadth of the topic, this volume explores Lévy processes and applications, and presents the state-of-the-art in this evolving area of study. These expository articles help to disseminate important theoretical and applied research to those studying the field.
| Author | : Jong In Lim |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2004-03-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3540213767 |
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2003, held in Seoul, Korea, in November 2003. The 32 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully selected from 163 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital signatures, primitives, fast implementations, computer security and mobile security, voting and auction protocols, watermarking, authentication and threshold protocols, and block ciphers and stream ciphers.
| Author | : John Neuberger |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2009-12-01 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3642040403 |
A Sobolev gradient of a real-valued functional on a Hilbert space is a gradient of that functional taken relative to an underlying Sobolev norm. This book shows how descent methods using such gradients allow a unified treatment of a wide variety of problems in differential equations. For discrete versions of partial differential equations, corresponding Sobolev gradients are seen to be vastly more efficient than ordinary gradients. In fact, descent methods with these gradients generally scale linearly with the number of grid points, in sharp contrast with the use of ordinary gradients. Aside from the first edition of this work, this is the only known account of Sobolev gradients in book form. Most of the applications in this book have emerged since the first edition was published some twelve years ago. What remains of the first edition has been extensively revised. There are a number of plots of results from calculations and a sample MatLab code is included for a simple problem. Those working through a fair portion of the material have in the past been able to use the theory on their own applications and also gain an appreciation of the possibility of a rather comprehensive point of view on the subject of partial differential equations.
| Author | : Maria Chlouveraki |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2009-08-29 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3642030645 |
This volume offers a thorough study of symmetric algebras, covering topics such as block theory, representation theory and Clifford theory. It can also serve as an introduction to the Hecke algebras of complex reflection groups.
