The Floer Memorial Volume

The Floer Memorial Volume
Author: Helmut Hofer
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034892179

Andreas Floer died on May 15, 1991 an untimely and tragic death. His visions and far-reaching contributions have significantly influenced the developments of mathematics. His main interests centered on the fields of dynamical systems, symplectic geometry, Yang-Mills theory and low dimensional topology. Motivated by the global existence problem of periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems and starting from ideas of Conley, Gromov and Witten, he developed his Floer homology, providing new, powerful methods which can be applied to problems inaccessible only a few years ago. This volume opens with a short biography and three hitherto unpublished papers of Andreas Floer. It then presents a collection of invited contributions, and survey articles as well as research papers on his fields of interest, bearing testimony of the high esteem and appreciation this brilliant mathematician enjoyed among his colleagues. Authors include: A. Floer, V.I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, M. Audin, D.M. Austin, S.M. Bates, P.J. Braam, M. Chaperon, R.L. Cohen, G. Dell' Antonio, S.K. Donaldson, B. D'Onofrio, I. Ekeland, Y. Eliashberg, K.D. Ernst, R. Finthushel, A.B. Givental, H. Hofer, J.D.S. Jones, I. McAllister, D. McDuff, Y.-G. Oh, L. Polterovich, D.A. Salamon, G.B. Segal, R. Stern, C.H. Taubes, C. Viterbo, A. Weinstein, E. Witten, E. Zehnder.

Memorial Volume For Shoucheng Zhang

Memorial Volume For Shoucheng Zhang
Author: Xiaoliang Qi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811231729

This book honors the remarkable science and life of Shoucheng Zhang, a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, spintronics, superconductivity, and other fields. It contains the contributions displayed at the Shoucheng Zhang Memorial Workshop held on May 2-4, 2019 at Stanford University.

A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry

A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry
Author: John Bowring
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368194291

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume

Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume
Author: George W. Roberts
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415295567

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Grassroots Memorials

Grassroots Memorials
Author: Peter Jan Margry
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857451901

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry

Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry
Author: Rosemary Horowitz
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786480068

From the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes compiled memorial books, or Yizker books, in an attempt to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information about their shtetls. This multipart collection provides a concise history of the memorial books and their cultural contexts; eight analytical essays on or using Yizker books; key reviews, in some cases translated from the Yiddish, from the 1950s and later; and a bibliographic overview of secondary sources and collections.