Nonlinear difference equations of order greater than one are of paramount impor- tance in applications where the (n + 1)st generation (or state) of the system depends on the previous k generations (or states).
The last fifty years have witnessed several monographs and hundreds of research articles on the theory, constructive methods and wide spectrum of applications of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations.
It is generally acknowledged that deterministic formulations of dy- namical phenomena in the social sciences need to be treated differently from similar formulations in the natural sciences.
There are many problems in nonlinear partial differential equations with delay which arise from, for example, physical models, biochemical models, and social models.
Dynamical systems theory is especially well-suited for determining the possible asymptotic states (at both early and late times) of cosmological models, particularly when the governing equations are a finite system of autonomous ordinary differential equations.
Functional Equations, Inequalities and Applications provides an extensive study of several important equations and inequalities, useful in a number of problems in mathematical analysis.
Two-and three-level difference schemes for discretisation in time, in conjunction with finite difference or finite element approximations with respect to the space variables, are often used to solve numerically non- stationary problems of mathematical physics.
It seems hard to believe, but mathematicians were not interested in integration problems on infinite-dimensional nonlinear structures up to 70s of our century.
Preface to the English Edition The present monograph is a revised and enlarged alternative of the author's monograph [19] which was devoted to the development of a unified approach to studying differential inclusions, whose values of the right hand sides are compact, not necessarily convex subsets of a Banach space.
The aim of this book is to present a rigorous phenomenological and mathematical formulation of sedimentation processes and to show how this theory can be applied to the design and control of continuous thickeners.
This book is an attempt to give a systematic presentation of results and meth- ods which concern the fixed point theory of multivalued mappings and some of its applications.
Various applications of the homogenization theory of partial differential equations resulted in the further development of this branch of mathematics, attracting an increasing interest of both mathematicians and experts in other fields.