Author: Howard M. ConnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258521141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Spearhead
Author: Howard M. ConnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258521141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Godel
Author: John L. CastiPublisher:
ISBN: 0786747609
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us a complete understanding of the universe, Gödel's theorem also raised many provocative questions: What are the limits of rational thought? Can we ever fully understand the machines we build? Or the inner workings of our own minds? How should mathematicians proceed in the absence of complete certainty about their results? Equally legendary were Gödel's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first book for a general audience on this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life.
Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Author: Alexander GiventalPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821828502
Category : Algebras, Linear
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The material presented in this book corresponds to a semester-long course, ``Linear Algebra and Differential Equations'', taught to sophomore students at UC Berkeley. In contrast with typical undergraduate texts, the book offers a unifying point of view on the subject, namely that linear algebra solves several clearly-posed classification problems about such geometric objects as quadratic forms and linear transformations. This attractive viewpoint on the classical theory agrees well with modern tendencies in advanced mathematics and is shared by many research mathematicians. However, the idea of classification seldom finds its way to basic programs in mathematics, and is usually unfamiliar to undergraduates. To meet the challenge, the book first guides the reader through the entire agenda of linear algebra in the elementary environment of two-dimensional geometry, and prior to spelling out the general idea and employing it in higher dimensions, shows how it works in applications such as linear ODE systems or stability of equilibria. Appropriate as a text for regular junior and honors sophomore level college classes, the book is accessible to high school students familiar with basic calculus, and can also be useful to engineering graduate students.
The Greatest Show on Heaven and Earth
Author: Dennis AllenPublisher: Genevox Music Group
ISBN: 9780767308823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
New Catholic Encyclopedia: Fri-Hoh
Author: Catholic University of AmericaPublisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
New Catholic Encyclopedia: Baa-Cam
Author: Catholic University of AmericaPublisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
Logical Dilemmas
Author: John DawsonPublisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN: 9781568812564
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This authoritative biography of Kurt Goedel relates the life of this most important logician of our time to the development of the field. Goedel's seminal achievements that changed the perception and foundations of mathematics are explained in the context of his life from the turn of the century Austria to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: National Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Schur Algorithm, Reproducing Kernel Spaces and System Theory
Author: Daniel AlpayPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821821558
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The class of Schur functions consists of analytic functions on the unit disk that are bounded by $1$. The Schur algorithm associates to any such function a sequence of complex constants, which is much more useful than the Taylor coefficients. There is a generalization to matrix-valued functions and a corresponding algorithm. These generalized Schur functions have important applications to the theory of linear operators, to signal processing and control theory, and to other areas of engineering. In this book, Alpay looks at matrix-valued Schur functions and their applications from the unifying point of view of spaces with reproducing kernels. This approach is used here to study the relationship between the modeling of time-invariant dissipative linear systems and the theory of linear operators. The inverse scattering problem plays a key role in the exposition. The point of view also allows for a natural way to tackle more general cases, such as nonstationary systems, non-positive metrics, and pairs of commuting nonself-adjoint operators. This is the English translation of a volume originally published in French by the Societe Mathematique de France. Translated by Stephen S. Wilson.
Author: Michael Fraenkel