Geometry
Geometry

Author: V. V. Prasolov

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2001-06-12

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1470425432

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This book provides a systematic introduction to various geometries, including Euclidean, affine, projective, spherical, and hyperbolic geometries. Also included is a chapter on infinite-dimensional generalizations of Euclidean and affine geometries. A uniform approach to different geometries, based on Klein's Erlangen Program is suggested, and similarities of various phenomena in all geometries are traced. An important notion of duality of geometric objects is highlighted throughout the book. The authors also include a detailed presentation of the theory of conics and quadrics, including the theory of conics for non-Euclidean geometries. The book contains many beautiful geometric facts and has plenty of problems, most of them with solutions, which nicely supplement the main text. With more than 150 figures illustrating the arguments, the book can be recommended as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in geometry.

Riemannian Geometry
Riemannian Geometry

Author: Takashi Sakai

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780821889565

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This volume is an English translation of Sakai's textbook on Riemannian Geometry which was originally written in Japanese and published in 1992. The author's intent behind the original book was to provide to advanced undergraduate and graudate students an introduction to modern Riemannian geometry that could also serve as a reference. The book begins with an explanation of the fundamental notion of Riemannian geometry. Special emphasis is placed on understandability and readability, to guide students who are new to this area. The remaining chapters deal with various topics in Riemannian geometry, with the main focus on comparison methods and their applications.

Methods of Information Geometry
Methods of Information Geometry

Author: Shun-ichi Amari

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780821843024

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Information geometry provides the mathematical sciences with a fresh framework of analysis. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical foundation of information geometry. It provides an overview of many areas of applications, such as statistics, linear systems, information theory, quantum mechanics, and convex analysis.

Linear and Quasi-linear Equations of Parabolic Type
Linear and Quasi-linear Equations of Parabolic Type

Author: Olʹga A. Ladyženskaja

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780821815731

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Equations of parabolic type are encountered in many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics, and those encountered most frequently are linear and quasi-linear parabolic equations of the second order. In this volume, boundary value problems for such equations are studied from two points of view: solvability, unique or otherwise, and the effect of smoothness properties of the functions entering the initial and boundary conditions on the smoothness of the solutions.

Algebraic Functions
Algebraic Functions

Author: Kenkichi Iwasawa

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0821819690

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This is a translation of Iwasawa's 1973 book, Theory of Algebraic Functions originally published in Japanese. Because the book treats mainly the classical part of the theory of algebraic functions, emphasizing analytic methods, it provides an excellent introduction to the subject from the classical viewpoint. Directed at graduate students, the book requires some basic knowledge of algebra, topology, and functions of a complex variable.

Mathematics of Fractals
Mathematics of Fractals

Author: Masaya Yamaguchi

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780821805374

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This book aims at providing a handy explanation of the notions behind the self-similar sets called "fractals" and "chaotic dynamical systems". The authors emphasize the beautiful relationship between fractal functions (such as Weierstrass's) and chaotic dynamical systems; these nowhere-differentiable functions are generating functions of chaotic dynamical systems. These functions are shown to be in a sense unique solutions of certain boundary problems. The last chapter of the book treats harmonic functions on fractal sets.

Selected Problems in Real Analysis
Selected Problems in Real Analysis

Author: M. G. Goluzina

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published:

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780821897386

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This book is intended for students wishing to deepen their knowledge of mathematical analysis and for those teaching courses in this area. It differs from other problem books in the greater difficulty of the problems, some of which are well-known theorems in analysis. Nonetheless, no special preparation is required to solve the majority of the problems. Brief but detailed solutions to most of the problems are given in the second part of the book. This book is unique in that the authors have aimed to systematize a range of problems that are found in sources that are almost inaccessible (especially to students) and in mathematical folklore.

Geometry of Characteristic Classes
Geometry of Characteristic Classes

Author: Shigeyuki Morita

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0821821393

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Characteristic classes are central to the modern study of the topology and geometry of manifolds. They were first introduced in topology, where, for instance, they could be used to define obstructions to the existence of certain fiber bundles. Characteristic classes were later defined (via the Chern-Weil theory) using connections on vector bundles, thus revealing their geometric side. In the late 1960s new theories arose that described still finer structures. Examples of the so-called secondary characteristic classes came from Chern-Simons invariants, Gelfand-Fuks cohomology, and the characteristic classes of flat bundles. The new techniques are particularly useful for the study of fiber bundles whose structure groups are not finite dimensional. The theory of characteristic classes of surface bundles is perhaps the most developed. Here the special geometry of surfaces allows one to connect this theory to the theory of moduli space of Riemann surfaces, i.e., Teichmüller theory. In this book Morita presents an introduction to the modern theories of characteristic classes.