The Abel Prize 2008-2012

The Abel Prize 2008-2012
Author: Helge Holden
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783662512531

Covering the years 2008-2012, this book profiles the life and work of recent winners of the Abel Prize: · John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits, 2008 · Mikhail Gromov, 2009 · John T. Tate Jr., 2010 · John W. Milnor, 2011 · Endre Szemerédi, 2012. The profiles feature autobiographical information as well as a description of each mathematician's work. In addition, each profile contains a complete bibliography, a curriculum vitae, as well as photos — old and new. As an added feature, interviews with the Laureates are presented on an accompanying web site (http://extras.springer.com/). The book also presents a history of the Abel Prize written by the historian Kim Helsvig, and includes a facsimile of a letter from Niels Henrik Abel, which is transcribed, translated into English, and placed into historical perspective by Christian Skau. This book follows on The Abel Prize: 2003-2007, The First Five Years (Springer, 2010), which profiles the work of the first Abel Prize winners.

The Abel Prize

The Abel Prize
Author: Helge Holden
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642013732

The book presents the winners of the first five Abel Prizes in mathematics: 2003 Jean-Pierre Serre; 2004 Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer; 2005 Peter D. Lax; 2006 Lennart Carleson; and 2007 S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan. Each laureate provides an autobiography or an interview, a curriculum vitae, and a complete bibliography. This is complemented by a scholarly description of their work written by leading experts in the field and by a brief history of the Abel Prize. Interviews with the laureates can be found at http://extras.springer.com .

Islamic Government

Islamic Government
Author: Ruhollah Khomeini
Publisher: Alhoda UK
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005
Genre: Iran
ISBN: 9789643354992

Turning Point

Turning Point
Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812922999

The former president's account of his first political battle reveals how his entrance into politics was riddled by a volatile political scene in the South that was spurred by the Supreme Court's "One man, one vote" decision

The Shah and the Ayatollah

The Shah and the Ayatollah
Author: Fereydoun Hoveyda
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2003-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN:

But such characteristics, which exist in other Muslim countries - especially in the Arab world - fail to clarify the particularities of the Iranian revolution.".

Stein Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings

Stein Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings
Author: Franc Forstnerič
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319610589

This book, now in a carefully revised second edition, provides an up-to-date account of Oka theory, including the classical Oka-Grauert theory and the wide array of applications to the geometry of Stein manifolds. Oka theory is the field of complex analysis dealing with global problems on Stein manifolds which admit analytic solutions in the absence of topological obstructions. The exposition in the present volume focuses on the notion of an Oka manifold introduced by the author in 2009. It explores connections with elliptic complex geometry initiated by Gromov in 1989, with the Andersén-Lempert theory of holomorphic automorphisms of complex Euclidean spaces and of Stein manifolds with the density property, and with topological methods such as homotopy theory and the Seiberg-Witten theory. Researchers and graduate students interested in the homotopy principle in complex analysis will find this book particularly useful. It is currently the only work that offers a comprehensive introduction to both the Oka theory and the theory of holomorphic automorphisms of complex Euclidean spaces and of other complex manifolds with large automorphism groups.

The Persian Sphinx

The Persian Sphinx
Author: Abbas Milani
Publisher: Mage Pub
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781933823348

"Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran-a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitanism against Persian isolationism, secularism against religious fundamentalism and ultimately civil society and democracy against authoritarianism...In telling the story of Hoveyda's life, the author has not only laid bare the development of Iranian society during a pivotal period (1919-1978) but has also unearthed important new materials on U.S.-Iranian relations..." -- p. [4]

The Carter Presidency, and Beyond

The Carter Presidency, and Beyond
Author: Laurence H. Shoup
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A political scientist examines Carter's rise to power, the effect of mass media coverage of his campaign, and his foreign and domestic policies.