| Dewey Class |
518 |
| Title |
Mathematics Unlimited — 2001 and Beyond ([EBook] /) / edited by Björn Engquist, Wilfried Schmid. |
| Added Personal Name |
Engquist, Björn editor. |
| Schmid, Wilfried editor. |
| Other name(s) |
SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Publication |
Berlin, Heidelberg : : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : : Imprint: Springer, , 2001. |
| Physical Details |
XXX, 1236 p. : online resource. |
| ISBN |
9783642564789 |
| Summary Note |
Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond" is a book guaranteed to delight the reader. This veritable treasure trove not only depicts the state of mathematics at the end of the century, but is also full of remarkable insights into its future development as we enter a new millennium. True to its title, the book extends beyond the spectrum of mathematics, both pure and applied, to include contributions from other related sciences. Whatever your field of expertise, you will enjoy reading the many stimulating contributions and, in so doing, gain insights into the astounding progress of mathematics and the perspectives for its future over the next 100 years. One of the editors, Björn Engquist, is a world-renowned researcher in computational science and engineering, and professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union. The second editor, Wilfried Schmid, is a distinguished mathematician at Harvard University. Likewise, the authors are all foremost mathematicians and scientists, and their biographies and photographs appear at the end of the book. Unique in both form and content, this is a "must-read" for every mathematician and scientist and, in particular, for graduates still choosing their specialty.: |
| Contents note |
II -- Evolution Equations in Geometry -- Computational Field Visualization -- Whither Applied Nonlinear Dynamics? -- Mathematics Comes from Many Sources… -- The Ubiquitous Heat Kernel -- Mathematical Modelling of the Internet -- Developments in Insurance Mathematics -- Discontinuous Groups for Non-Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces -- Cryptography -- Periods -- How Should We Prepare the Students of Science and Technology for a Life in the Computer Age? -- Astrophysics and Cosmology in the 21st Century -- L2-Invariants and Their Applications to Geometry, Group Theory and Spectral Theory -- A Chapter in Physical Mathematics: Theory of Knots in the Sciences -- The Unity of Mathematics -- Geometric Aspects of Mirror Symmetry -- What Is an Algorithm? -- From Number Crunching to Virtual Reality: Mathematics, Physics and Computation -- Modeling the Cardiovascular System: A Mathematical Challenge -- Math in the Entertainment Industry -- Three Problems in Real Algebraic Geometry and Their Descendants -- Primitive Automorphic Forms -- Mathematical Challenges from Molecular Evolution -- Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging: Analysis of Vascular Structures for Liver Surgery Planning -- Systems of Conservation Laws: A Challenge for the XXIst Century -- RIMS for the 21st Century -- Discrete Probability -- Probability Theory — A Somewhat Narrow Perspective -- Error-Correcting Codes and Curves over Finite Fields -- The Turing Machine Paradigm in Contemporary Computing -- Randomization of Algebra and Algebraization of Probability — An Attempt at Prediction -- Dynamical Systems: Moving into the Next Century -- Noise in the Climate System — Ubiquitous, Constitutive and Concealing -- Questions About Polytopes -- Biographies. |
| System details note |
Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users) |
| Internet Site |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56478-9 |
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