Functional Equations: History, Applications and Theory:
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Main Author: Aczél, J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1984
Series:Mathematics and Its Applications 12
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Approach your problems from the right end and begin with the solution. It isn't that they can't see the problem. It is that they can't see the answers. Then one day, perhaps you will find the final question. G.K. Chesterton. The Scandal of Father Brown 'The Point of a Pin' . 'The Hermit Clad ~n Crane Feathers' in R. van Gulik's The Chinese Haze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the "tree" of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces. And in addition to this there are such new emerging subdisciplines as "completely integrable systems", "chaos, synergetics and large-scale order", which are almost impossible to fit into the existinf, classification schemes. They draw upon widely different sections of mathematics
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 246 p)
ISBN:9789400963207
9781402003295
DOI:10.1007/978-94-009-6320-7

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