Maths for scientists

This book brings together a comprehensive account of major developments in the theory and applications of nonlinear dispersive waves, nonlinear water waves, KdV and nonlinear Schrodinger equations, Davey-Stewartson equation, Benjamin-Ono equation and nonlinear instability phenomena.

The contents of this volume consist of 15 lectures on mathematics and its applications which include the following topics: dynamics of neural network, phase transition of cellular automata, homoclinic bifurcations, ergodic theories of low dimensional dynamical systems, Anosov endomorphisms and Anosov flows, axiom A systems, complex dynamical systems, multi-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems and holomorphic vector fields.

The 2nd experimental chaos conference provided a multidisciplinary forum for the scientific and engineering communities to present recent developments of and techniques in nonlinear dynamics.

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject.

NEEDs '92 was held in Dubna, Russia in July 1992.

The proceedings contain a range of papers dealing with different issues relating to the theme of the workshop.

The papers presented in the congress can roughly be classified into the following categories: theoretical and statistical mathematics applied to biological systems; image elaboration; dynamics of biological fluids; dynamics and statics of biological structures and computers in biology and medicine.

This volume contains the lectures presented at the workshop on "e;Quantum Groups, Integrable Models and Statistical Systems"e;.

The papers presented in this volume cover a number of different aspects of stochastic analysis, probability theory, quantum field theory, functional integration, ergodic theory, quantum theory, statistical modelling, random graph theory and percolation theory.

This second workshop on constraint theory aims at reviewing the developments that have taken place in the theory of singular Lagrangians and Dirac-Bergmann Hamiltonian constraints as well as their quantization.

This workshop gathered experts in plasma physics, nonlinear phenomena and mathematics.

This volume is a collection of papers which were presented at the traditional international conference on programming and mathematical methods for solving physical problems.

This volume contains intense studies on Quantum Groups, Knot Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Conformal Field Theory, Differential Geometry and Differential Equation Methods and so on.

This volume contains papers, contributed by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines, on the application of nonlinear dynamics (chaos theory) in the study of brain function.

The theory of subfactors of von Neumann algebras made an amazing development in the past ten years or so.

This volume of proceedings consists of 14 invited papers.

Fractal sets serve as excellent models in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and other fields.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at Euromech Colloquium 308 - Chaos and Noise in Dynamical Systems.

The topics discussed in this volume are: Symmetry and Foundations in Classical and Quantum Mechanics; Geometry, Topology and Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Groups and Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras; Algebraic Approach to Nuclear Structure; Integrable Statistical Systems and Theory of Critical Phenomena Supersymmetry; Atomic and Molecular Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Other Applications of Group Theory to Physics.

This symposium brought together mechanicians, physicists and applied mathematicians to discuss the interdisciplinary topic of nonlinear wave motion, which displays effects that give rise to a multitude of unanswered questions.

This volume covers the recent developments of the exact solvable models, Yangian symmetry, the long-ranged interaction models and high-dimensional integrable systems.

This book consists of selected papers presented at the Third Conference of the Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies.

This book contains a collection of articles on the topics mentioned in the title or closely related to them, and is dedicated to Prof Aristide Halanay from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in occasion of his 70th birthday.

In recent years nonlinear and irreversible quantum mechanics is becoming increasingly important because of the availability of precision experiments.

This book offers new perspectives and paradigms in science, specifically to point out novel characteristics in natural processes.

The Third International Workshop on Complex Structures and Vector Fields was held to exchange information on current topics in complex analysis, differential geometry and mathematical physics, and to find new subjects in these fields.

Iteration theory has its roots in the operation of substituting functions into itself.

The aim of the symposium was to provide a forum for presenting and discussing recent developments and trends in Reaction-diffusion Equations and to promote scientific exchanges among mathematicians in China and in Japan, especially for the younger generation.

Nonstationarity is another name for intermittency, a phenomenon which affects many physical processes.

These proceedings contain lecture notes on computer algebra, cosmological models, quantum cosmology, and black hole physics.

There is an apparent trend towards geometrization of physical theories.

These proceedings contain the lecture notes of the topics covered during the Summer School as well as the contributions from the Workshop.

This book is of interest to researchers in universities, research centres and industries who are involved in measurements and need advanced mathematical tools to solve their problems, and to whoever is working in the development of these mathematical tools.

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on 'Exactly Soluble Models in Statistical Mechanics: Historical Perspectives and Current Status', held at Northeastern University in March 1996 - the first ever conference to deal exclusively with this topic.

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss both local and global geometrical and topological effects in quantum systems, in the context of the new methods of investigation.

Historically, science has developed by reducing complex situations to simple ones, analyzing the components and synthesizing the original situation.

These proceedings contain a collection of papers on Combinatorial Dynamics, from the lectures that took place during the international symposium, Thirty Years after Sharkovskii's Theorem: New Perspectives, which was held at La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain, from June 13 to June 18, 1994.

The areas covered in this volume include: duality in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories; phenomenological applications of string theory; strings in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; SUSY conformal field theories; QCD strings; aspects of mathematical physics, including: mirror symmetry, W-algebras, representation theory.

The intellectual center of this proceedings volume is the subject of conservation laws.

The Wigner Symposia deal with the most recent developments in those mathematical areas which were introduced to physics by E P Wigner, and also with related fields.

This book provides an excellent overview of current developments in a wide range of topics in biomathematics, such as population dynamics, neural networks, fishery markets, transmission of infectious diseases, genetic analysis, biostatistics and biomechanics.