The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one of its characterizing curves: the branch curve.
The book provides a comprehensive introduction and a novel mathematical foundation of the field of information geometry with complete proofs and detailed background material on measure theory, Riemannian geometry and Banach space theory.
This volume arose from a semester at CIRM-Luminy on "e;Thermodynamic Formalism: Applications to Probability, Geometry and Fractals"e; which brought together leading experts in the area to discuss topical problems and recent progress.
This book offers a gentle introduction to key elements of Geometric Algebra, along with their applications in Physics, Robotics and Molecular Geometry.
This book develops a new theory in convex geometry, generalizing positive bases and related to Caratheordory's Theorem by combining convex geometry, the combinatorics of infinite subsets of lattice points, and the arithmetic of transfer Krull monoids (the latter broadly generalizing the ubiquitous class of Krull domains in commutative algebra)This new theory is developed in a self-contained way with the main motivation of its later applications regarding factorization.
Providing a timely description of the present state of the art of moduli spaces of curves and their geometry, this volume is written in a way which will make it extremely useful both for young people who want to approach this important field, and also for established researchers, who will find references, problems, original expositions, new viewpoints, etc.
This collection of contributions originates from the well-established conference series "e;Fractal Geometry and Stochastics"e; which brings together researchers from different fields using concepts and methods from fractal geometry.
This book summarizes the author's lifetime achievements, offering new perspectives and approaches in the field of metal cutting theory and its applications.
Providing an introduction to current research topics in functional analysis and its applications to quantum physics, this book presents three lectures surveying recent progress and open problems.
Exploring the Riemann Zeta Function: 190 years from Riemann's Birth presents a collection of chapters contributed by eminent experts devoted to the Riemann Zeta Function, its generalizations, and their various applications to several scientific disciplines, including Analytic Number Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Complex Analysis, Probability Theory, and related subjects.
This volume consists of papers inspired by the special session on pseudo-differential operators at the 10th ISAAC Congress held at the University of Macau, August 3-8, 2015 and the mini-symposium on pseudo-differential operators in industries and technologies at the 8th ICIAM held at the National Convention Center in Beijing, August 10-14, 2015.
This collection of high-quality articles in the field of combinatorics, geometry, algebraic topology and theoretical computer science is a tribute to Jiri Matousek, who passed away prematurely in March 2015.
This volume collects papers based on talks given at the conference "e;Geometrias'19: Polyhedra and Beyond"e;, held in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto between September 5-7, 2019 in Portugal.
This book presents four lectures on Rees rings and blow-ups, Koszul modules with applications to syzygies, Grobner bases and degenerations, and applications of Adams operations.
This is the second volume of the Handbook of the Geometry and Topology of Singularities, a series which aims to provide an accessible account of the state-of-the-art of the subject, its frontiers, and its interactions with other areas of research.
The three-volume set, consisting of LNCS 10116, 10117, and 10118, contains carefully reviewed and selected papers presented at 17 workshops held in conjunction with the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan in November 2016.
This volume originated in talks given in Cortona at the conference "e;Geometric aspects of harmonic analysis"e; held in honor of the 70th birthday of Fulvio Ricci.
This monograph studies decompositions of the Jacobian of a smooth projective curve, induced by the action of a finite group, into a product of abelian subvarieties.
This volume features contributions from the Women in Commutative Algebra (WICA) workshop held at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) from October 20-25, 2019, run by the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).
The purpose of this volume and of the other volumes in the same series is to provide a collection of surveys that allows the reader to learn the important aspects of William Thurston's heritage.
Part 1 of this popular graduate-level textbook focuses on mathematical methods involving complex analysis, determinants, and matrices, including updated and additional material covering conformal mapping.
This proceedings book brings selected works from two conferences, the 2nd Brazil-Mexico Meeting on Singularity and the 3rd Northeastern Brazilian Meeting on Singularities, that were hold in Salvador, in July 2015.
This volume contains a collection of research papers and useful surveys by experts in the field which provide a representative picture of the current status of this fascinating area.
This book collects together original research and survey articles highlighting the fertile interdisciplinary applications of convex lattice polytopes in modern mathematics.
This book deals with an original contribution to the hypothetical missing link unifying the two fundamental branches of physics born in the twentieth century, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
This book collects original peer-reviewed contributions to the conferences organised by the international research network "e;Minimal surfaces: Integrable Systems and Visualization"e; financed by the Leverhulme Trust.
This book provides an introduction to deformation quantization and its relation to quantum field theory, with a focus on the constructions of Kontsevich and Cattaneo & Felder.