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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is to present and analyze philosophical conceptions concerning mathematics and logic as formulated by Polish logicians, mathematicians and philosophers in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a remarkable period in the history of Polish science, in particular in the history of Polish logic and mathematics. Therefore, it is justified to ask whether and to what extent the development of logic and mathematics was accompanied by a philosophical reflection. We try to answer those questions by analyzing both works of Polish logicians and mathematicians who have a philosophical temperament as well as their research practice. Works and philosophical views of the following Polish scientists will be analyzed: Wac¿aw Sierpi¿ski, Zygmunt Janiszewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Stefan Banach Hugo Steinhaus, Eustachy ¿yli¿sk and Leon Chwistek, Jan ¿ukasiewicz, Zygmunt Zawirski, Stanis¿aw Le¿niewski, Tadeusz Kotarbi¿ski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Alfred Tarski, Andrzej Mostowski and Henryk Mehlberg, Jan Sleszy¿ski, Stanis¿aw Zaremba and Witold Wilkosz. To indicate the background of scientists being active in the 1920s and 1930s we consider in Chapter 1 some predecessors, in particular: Jan ¿niadecki, Józef Maria Hoene-Wröski, Samuel Dickstein and Edward Stamm.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary and social writings are also available in English, his mathematical works are not well represented in readily available, accessible English editions have remained accessible only to specialists. The four treatises included here ¿ Ludi matematici, De Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De lunularum quadratura ¿ are extremely valuable in rounding out the portrait of this multitalented thinker. The treatises are presented in modern English translations, with commentary that is intended to make evident the depths of Alberti¿s knowledge as well as address the treatises¿ mathematical, historical and cultural context, their classical Greek roots, and their relationship to later works by Renaissance thinkers.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented approaches to the sustainable use of these resources. The included case studies from northwestern Switzerland describe representative environments and are relevant for urban areas in general. They illustrate the protection of groundwater; river restoration; engineering and hydrogeological questions related to urban infrastructure and management concepts; as well as monitoring, modeling and remediation strategies for contaminated sites; problems caused by karst in urban environments; the use of shallow geothermal energy; and natural hazards such as flood events and earthquakes.It is demonstrated that modern quantitative earth sciences can contribute significantly in finding solutions concerning the sustainable use of subsurface resources in urban environments.The book is an invaluable source of information for hydrogeologists, geologists, urban planners, water supply engineers, and environmental agencies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The focus of this book and its geometric notions is on real vector spaces X that are finite or infinite inner product spaces of arbitrary dimension greater than or equal to 2. It characterizes both euclidean and hyperbolic geometry with respect to natural properties of (general) translations and general distances of X. Also for these spaces X, it studies the sphere geometries of Möbius and Lie as well as geometries where Lorentz transformations play the key role.Proofs of newer theorems characterizing isometries and Lorentz transformations under mild hypotheses are included, such as for instance infinite dimensional versions of famous theorems of A.D. Alexandrov on Lorentz transformations. A real benefit is the dimension-free approach to important geometrical theories.New to this third edition is a chapter dealing with a simple and great idea of Leibniz that allows us to characterize, for these same spaces X, hyperplanes of euclidean, hyperbolic geometry, or spherical geometry, the geometries of Lorentz-Minkowski and de Sitter, and this through finite or infinite dimensions greater than 1.Another new and fundamental result in this edition concerns the representation of hyperbolic motions, their form and their transformations. Further we show that the geometry (P,G) of segments based on X is isomorphic to the hyperbolic geometry over X. Here P collects all x in X of norm less than one, G is defined to be the group of bijections of P transforming segments of P onto segments.The only prerequisites for reading this book are basic linear algebra and basic 2- and 3-dimensional real geometry. This implies that mathematicians who have not so far been especially interested in geometry could study and understand some of the great ideas of classical geometries in modern and general contexts.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is the main neurotransmitter regulating sleep. The majority of drugs presently in use for the treatment of sleep disorders act by enhancing GABAergic neuronal inhibition. The GABA system is, therefore, of prime clinical relevance for the therapy of insomnia.The focus of this volume is on the neuropsychopharmacology and the clinical impact of the GABA system in regulating sleep and wakefulness. It presents molecular, neuropharmacological, systems-biological and clinical approaches to the understanding of the mechanism of action of GABA and GABAergic drugs. It also explores the role of GABA in the basic drives that affect sleep, and the influences that adapt sleep and wakefulness to external events.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 516 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch beschäftigt sich mit stochastischen Prozessen in der Zeit. Diese Klasse von mathematischen Modellen hat vielfältige Anwendungen auf Problemstellungen, in denen man Zufallsphänomene in ihrer zeitlichen Entwicklung erfassen möchte. Im umfangreichen Gebiet der stochastischen Prozesse konzentrieren wir uns auf Themen, die sowohl mathematisch als auch von den Anwendungen her besonders bedeutungsvoll sind. Ausgangspunkt ist die Theorie der bedingten Erwartungen und der Martingale, die die Stochastik in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts neu prägte; hier orientiert man sich an der Vorstellung eines fairen Spiels. Demgegenüber beschreiben Markovketten zufällige Entwicklungen, bei denen die Verteilung des zukünftigen Verlaufs nur vom gegenwärtigen Zustand abhängt. Bei den zeitkontinuierlichen Prozessen steht die Brownsche Bewegung an erster Stelle. Zusammen mit den Poissonschen Punktprozessen und Lévyprozessen befindet sie sich an der Schnittstelle zwischen Martingalen und Markovprozessen. Ein abschließendes Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit zeitkontinuierlichen Markovprozessen und ihren Generatoren, bis hin zu Fellerprozessen.Das Buch versteht sich als einführender Text, der an fortgeschrittene Themen wie etwa die stochastische Analysis heranführt. Grundlegende Sätze aus der Maß- und Integrationstheorie werden benutzt, dabei stehen immer die probabilistischen Aspekte im Vordergrund. Damit ist das Buch für das fortgeschrittene Bachelor- oder das einführende Masterstudium der Mathematik geeignet.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Deutsch.