Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Basel. Springer/Birkhäuser, 2010
ISBN 10: 3034604998 ISBN 13: 9783034604994
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Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 274 S. ill. engl. Einbd. etw. berieben, ansonsten sehr gut erh. ISBN: 9783034604994 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 710.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Armebooks, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 454 Seiten; BirkhÃuser - 2. Auf. 1990 : Joseph Silk - gb - 10-49-5 OH-MI7I-YOG3 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Cham, Springer International Publishing/Birkhäuser., 2019
ISBN 10: 3319991744 ISBN 13: 9783319991740
Anbieter: Universitätsbuchhandlung Herta Hold GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland
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1st edition 2019. 23.5 cm x 15.5 cm. X, 100 p. Softcover. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis; Lecture Notes in Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Sprache: Englisch.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Cham, Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser., 2021
ISBN 10: 3030847993 ISBN 13: 9783030847999
Anbieter: Universitätsbuchhandlung Herta Hold GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland
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1st ed. 2021. X, 151 p. Softcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Research Perspectives CRM Barcelona, 15. Sprache: Englisch.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Cham, Springer/Birkhäuser., 2018
ISBN 10: 3319727087 ISBN 13: 9783319727080
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VI, 338 p. Softcover. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Sprache: Englisch.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Cham, Springer International Publishing; : Birkhäuser., 2018
ISBN 10: 3319637800 ISBN 13: 9783319637808
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Cham [u.a.], Birkhäuser Springer., 2015
ISBN 10: 3319146173 ISBN 13: 9783319146171
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VIII, 290 p. Hardcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Stamped. Shelfwear. Operator Theory, 245 : Advances and Applications. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Basel - Boston - Berlin / Berlin - Heidelberg - New York - Tokyo, Birkhäuser Verlag - Springer-Verlag 1990., 1990
Anbieter: Versandantiquariat Peter Kardos, Zürich, Schweiz
Deutsche Erstausgabe. Gr.8°. 1 Blatt, 454 Seiten, 1 Blatt, mit zahlreichen z.T. blattgrossen Abbildungen im Text auf Kunstdruckpapier (davon ein Frontispiz: Ein mit dem "Very Large Array" in Soccoro (New Mexico) aufgenommenes Radiobild der elliptischen Riesengalaxie Messier 87). Illustrierter Original-Pappband (Umschlagmotiv: Eine von der Seite gesehene Spiralgalaxie, der Sombreronebel (M 104/ NGC 4594). Gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Beiliegend: 4 Zeitungsausschnitte zu diesem Buch, Ephemera.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: New York, NY, Springer US : Imprint: Birkhäuser., 2021
ISBN 10: 1071615106 ISBN 13: 9781071615102
Anbieter: Universitätsbuchhandlung Herta Hold GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland
XXXI, 530 p. Hardcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, 96. Sprache: Englisch.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Basel, Springer Basel/Birkhäuser., 2019
ISBN 10: 3764385278 ISBN 13: 9783764385279
Anbieter: Universitätsbuchhandlung Herta Hold GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland
2019. Band 2 25.8 cm x 18.5 cm. XVII, 573 S. Gebunden. Schutzumschlag an hinterer oberen Ecke eingerissen. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Sprache: Deutsch.
Sprache: Deutsch
Verlag: Bln., Springer, Basel, Birkhäuser, (1987)., 1987
Anbieter: Bojara & Bojara-Kellinghaus OHG, Osnabrück, Deutschland
Quer-4°. Mit 240 (tls. farb.) Abb., 31 Diagrammen u. 1 gefalt. Taf. 6, 274 S. OPbd. m. OU. - Gutes Ex. (Buchblock unbedeutend gewellt). 1.
Verlag: Birkhäuser im Springer Verlag, 2020., 2020
Anbieter: Antiquariat Carl Wegner, Berlin, B, Deutschland
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Birkhäuser, Springer International Publishing, 2017
ISBN 10: 331942811X ISBN 13: 9783319428116
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Zustand: gebraucht. 364 S., original Pappeinband/ gebunden, guter Zustand. Versand in stabiler Buchverpackung mit der Deutschen Post oder DHL. Rechnung liegt bei.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Birkhäuser Architecture / Springer, 2003
ISBN 10: 3764364947 ISBN 13: 9783764364946
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. ARCHITECTURENew conceptual strategies for structures, hybrid materials and constructions, computer-aided design and fabrication, and the adaptation of techniques from aeroplane design and ship building: these new technical developments in design and production are radically changing the use of metals in building. yesterday's standards and processes are rapidly becoming out-dated, and it is high time that the most recent advances are documented in a systematic overview.\nCase studies examine significant recent buildings, both completed and in design, which illustrate ground-breaking concepts. These include Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao and the Experience Music project in Seattle, the Millennium Bridge by Norman Foster, Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Seattle Library by Rem Koolhaas. Each project is comprehensively documented in image and text, paying particular attention to the application and processing of metal and steel.pp. 144 illust #060125 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. (Please note: Over standard weight or size. Orders via ABE Books or Biblio or from Overseas may incur additional postage charges. We will contact you prior to processing order to request your approval or contact us to confirm postage cost.).
Sprache: Deutsch
Verlag: Birkhäuser - Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, Basel ; Boston, 1990
ISBN 10: 3764324015 ISBN 13: 9783764324018
Anbieter: Gebrauchtbücherlogistik H.J. Lauterbach, Gummersbach, NRW, Deutschland
Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 28x21cm; XVI, 470 S. Broschiert. 617 Ill. u. graph. Darst. Zustand: Gut bis Sehr Gut min. gebräunt (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Springer Birkhauser, New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1493914731 ISBN 13: 9781493914739
Anbieter: Emile Kerssemakers ILAB, Heerlen, Niederlande
26 cm. original hardcover. xxiv,500 pp. ills, diagrams. bibliography. index. -(some signs of use, otherwise (very) good). 1080g.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: New York, Springer Science (Birkhäuser Cornerstones), 2010
ISBN 10: 0817646728 ISBN 13: 9780817646721
Anbieter: Antiquariat Smock, Freiburg, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. Formateinband: illustrierter Pappband / gebundene Ausgabe XVI, 445 S. (24 cm) Hardcover; 1. Aufl.; Sehr guter Zustand! Minimaler Abdruck vom Preiskleber am Vorderdeckel. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 950 [Stichwörter: Differentation and Distribution, Convergence of Distributions, Taylor Expansion in Several Variables, Localization, Distributions with Compact Support, Multiplication by Functions; Transposition: Pullback and Pshforward, Convolution of Distributions, Fundamental Solutions; Fractational Integration and Differentation, Fourier Transform, Distribution Kernels, Fourier Series, Supports and Fourier Transform, Sobolev Spaces etc.].
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book collects the notes of the lectures given at the Advanced Course on Crossed Products, Groupoids, and Rokhlin dimension, that took place at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) from March 13 to March 17, 2017. The notes consist of three series of lectures. The first one was given by Dana Williams (Dartmouth College), and served as an introduction to crossed products of C\*-algebras and the study of their structure. The second series of lectures was delivered by Aidan Sims (Wollongong), who gave an overview of the theory of topological groupoids (as a model for groups and group actions) and groupoid C\*-algebras, with particular emphasis on the case of étale groupoids. Finally, the last series was delivered by Gábor Szabó (Copenhagen), and consisted of an introduction to Rokhlin type properties (mostly centered around the work of Hirshberg, Winter and Zacharias) with hints to the more advanced theory related to groupoids.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is an introduction to two higher-categorical topics in algebraic topology and algebraic geometry relying on simplicial methods.Moerdijk's lectures offer a detailed introduction to dendroidal sets, which were introduced by himself and Weiss as a foundation for the homotopy theory of operads. The theory of dendroidal sets is based on trees instead of linear orders and has many features analogous to the theory of simplicial sets, but it also reveals new phenomena. For example, dendroidal sets admit a closed symmetric monoidal structure related to the Boardman-Vogt tensor product of operads. The lecture notes start with the combinatorics of trees and culminate with a suitable model structure on the category of dendroidal sets. Important concepts are illustrated with pictures and examples.The lecture series by Toën presents derived algebraic geometry. While classical algebraic geometry studies functors from the category of commutative rings to the category of sets, derived algebraic geometry is concerned with functors from simplicial commutative rings (to allow derived tensor products) to simplicial sets (to allow derived quotients). The central objects are derived (higher) stacks, which are functors satisfying a certain up-to-homotopy descent condition. These lectures provide a concise and focused introduction to this vast subject, glossing over many of the technicalities that make the subject's research literature so overwhelming.Both sets of lectures assume a working knowledge of model categories in the sense of Quillen. For Toën's lectures, some background in algebraic geometry is also necessary.
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book consists essentially of notes which were written for an Advanced Course on Classifying Spaces and Cohomology of Groups. The course took place at the Centre de Recerca Mathematica (CRM) in Bellaterra from May 27 to June 2, 1998 and was part of an emphasis semester on Algebraic Topology. It consisted of two parallel series of 6 lectures of 90 minutes each and was intended as an introduction to new homotopy theoretic methods in group cohomology. The first part of the book is concerned with methods of decomposing the classifying space of a finite group into pieces made of classifying spaces of appropriate subgroups. Such decompositions have been used with great success in the last 10-15 years in the homotopy theory of classifying spaces of compact Lie groups and p-compact groups in the sense of Dwyer and Wilkerson. For simplicity the emphasis here is on finite groups and on homological properties of various decompositions known as centralizer resp. normalizer resp. subgroup decomposition. A unified treatment of the various decompositions is given and the relations between them are explored. This is preceeded by a detailed discussion of basic notions such as classifying spaces, simplicial complexes and homotopy colimits.
Sprache: Deutsch
Verlag: Basel ; Boston ; Berlin ; Heidelberg ; Springer-Birkhäuser Verlag, 1990
ISBN 10: 3764324015 ISBN 13: 9783764324018
Anbieter: Elops e.V. Offene Hände, Bad Windsheim, Deutschland
Hardcover/Pappeinband; 28 cm. 470 Seiten; 617 Abbildungen und 47 Tafeln Vorsatz leicht fleckig; untere Kante bestoßen Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1625.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Springer, Berlin|Springer International Publishing|CITIC Press|Birkhäuser, 2023
ISBN 10: 3031268407 ISBN 13: 9783031268403
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. This volume, originally published in China and translated into four other languages, presents a fascinating and unique account of the history of mathematics, divided into eight chronologically organized chapters. Tracing the development of mathematics acros.
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book shows how California's weather and climate have drastically changed and what we can expect in the near future. California's weather and climate are becoming as common a topic in the media as inflation and wars. It comes into our lives during heat waves when we require more cooling and during droughts when we are asked to limit our use of water. We may not be able to visit state and national parks when fires rage nearby. Indeed, California does have weather. LaDochy and Witiw dispel the erroneous myths about the state's climate in a colorful, entertaining way. California does have seasons. It does rain in Southern California. It is not always sunny and mild throughout the year. And not all El Niños bring abundant rainfall every time throughout the state. These and other myths are discussed and dismissed with the latest science and remarkable vignettes. The authors describe the diversity of the state's physical environment, both natural and man-made and how climate changeis currently altering this diverse environment. Climate change, in the past, present and future, continues to influence this most populous state. Yes, California does have weather.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel, Springer Basel, 1988
ISBN 10: 3764322306 ISBN 13: 9783764322304
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - These notes are based on lectures given in the semmar on 'Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry' held at Schloss Mickeln, Diisseldorf, November 16-21, 1987. In 1982 Tsfasman, Vladut and Zink, using algebraic geometry and ideas of Goppa, constructed a seqeunce of codes that exceed the Gilbert-Varshamov bound. The result was considered sensational. Furthermore, it was surprising to see these unrelated areas of mathematics collaborating. The aim of this course is to give an introduction to coding theory and to sketch the ideas of algebraic geometry that led to the new result. Finally, a number of applications of these methods of algebraic geometry to coding theory are given. Since this is a new area, there are presently no references where one can find a more extensive treatment of all the material. However, both for algebraic geometry and for coding theory excellent textbooks are available. The combination ofthe two subjects can only be found in a number ofsurvey papers. A book by C. Moreno with a complete treatment of this area is in preparation. We hope that these notes will stimulate further research and collaboration of algebraic geometers and coding theorists. G. van der Geer, J.H. van Lint Introduction to CodingTheory and Algebraic Geometry PartI -- CodingTheory Jacobus H. vanLint 11 1. Finite fields In this chapter we collect (without proof) the facts from the theory of finite fields that we shall need in this course.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel biological computers, fed with data on Earth's history of successes and failures. Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, some unexpected and worrying anomalies begin cropping up, making an urgent expedition to the system necessary: is it the underlying data, the computations, or is some unknown entity tampering with the space colonization program A race against time ensues as the lives of four strangers begin to converge. While grounded in the social systems aspect, the author posits that the future is likely to be characterized by more biology-based tools than most contemporary science fiction - which most often relies entirely on non-biological hardware in terms of advanced technologies - predicts. The result is an entertaining and skillful blend of thriller and SF, complemented by a nontechnical appendix describing the underlying science.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume contains lecture notes from the coursesgiven by Vlad Bally and Rama Cont at the Barcelona Summer School on StochasticAnalysis (July 2012).The notes of the course by Vlad Bally, co-authoredwith Lucia Caramellino, develop integration by parts formulas in an abstractsetting, extending Malliavin's work on abstract Wiener spaces. The results areapplied to prove absolute continuity and regularity results of the density fora broad class of random processes.Rama Cont's notes provide anintroduction to the Functional Itô Calculus, a non-anticipative functionalcalculus that extends the classical Itô calculus to path-dependent functionalsof stochastic processes. This calculus leads to a new class of path-dependentpartial differential equations, termed Functional Kolmogorov Equations, whicharise in the study of martingales and forward-backward stochastic differentialequations.This book will appeal to both young and senior researchers in probability and stochastic processes, as well as to practitioners in mathematical finance.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume presents the lecture notes from two courses given by Davar Khoshnevisan and René Schilling, respectively, at the second Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis.René Schilling's notes are an expanded version of his course on Lévy and Lévy-type processes, the purpose of which is two-fold: on the one hand, the course presents in detail selected properties of the Lévy processes, mainly as Markov processes, and their different constructions, eventually leading to the celebrated Lévy-Itô decomposition. On the other, it identifies the infinitesimal generator of the Lévy process as a pseudo-differential operator whose symbol is the characteristic exponent of the process, making it possible to study the properties of Feller processes as space inhomogeneous processes that locally behave like Lévy processes. The presentation is self-contained, and includes dedicated chapters that review Markov processes, operator semigroups, random measures, etc. Inturn, Davar Khoshnevisan's course investigates selected problems in the field of stochastic partial differential equations of parabolic type. More precisely, the main objective is to establish an Invariance Principle for those equations in a rather general setting, and to deduce, as an application, comparison-type results. The framework in which these problems are addressed goes beyond the classical setting, in the sense that the driving noise is assumed to be a multiplicative space-time white noise on a group, and the underlying elliptic operator corresponds to a generator of a Lévy process on that group. This implies that stochastic integration with respect to the above noise, as well as the existence and uniqueness of a solution for the corresponding equation, become relevant in their own right. These aspects are also developed and supplemented by a wealth of illustrative examples.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The story of microscopy over the years is one of wonder, revelation, and even love. What better words could there be to describe the amazing things that we have been able to see, learn and accomplish thanks to the progress made in this field A love story between a pieace of glass and the rainbow with an original soundtrack mad of poetry and music.From Galilei's initial foray into basic optical microscopy, including the Camillo Golgi and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia lessons, to such later developments as time-resolved microscopy, multi-photon microscopy and three-dimensional microscopy to innovations such as optical nanoscopy, bioimaging and super resolution imaging, the book seeks to take the reader, be they scientist or layperson, on a journey through the evolution of the microscope and its many uses, including in the field of medicine.The author uses visible light as a through-line to unite the various chapters, as well as using fluorescence as a touchpointfrom which to map the changes in the science, a significant choice, as it, along with label-free approaches and the addition of artificial intelligence, form the natural environment for development of the modern multi-messenger microscope towards bioimaging at the nanoscale.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Springer, Berlin|Springer International Publishing|Birkhäuser, 2021
ISBN 10: 3030818918 ISBN 13: 9783030818913
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. This book sketches a path for newcomers into the theory of harmonic analysis on the real line. It presents a collection of both basic, well-known and some less known results that may serve as a background for future research around this topic.This book .
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - People are used to seeing 'fake physics' in science fiction - concepts like faster-than-light travel, antigravity and time travel to name a few. The fiction label ought to be a giveaway, but some SF writers - especially those with a background in professional science - are so adept at 'technobabble' that it can be difficult to work out what is fake and what is real. To confuse matters further, Isaac Asimov's 1948 piece about the fictitious time-travelling substance thiotimoline was written, not as a short story, but in the form of a spoof research paper. The boundaries between fact and fiction can also be blurred by physicists themselves - sometimes unintentionally, sometimes with tongue-in-cheek, sometimes to satirize perceived weaknesses in research practices. Examples range from hoaxes aimed at exposing poor editorial standards in academic publications, through 'thought experiments' that sound like the plot of a sci-fi movie to April Fools' jokes. Even the latter may carry a serious message, whether about the sociology of science or poking fun at legitimate but far-out scientific hypotheses. This entertaining book is a joyous romp exploring the whole spectrum of fake physics - from science to fiction and back again.