Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 187:

Harris, J. / Morrison, I. :

Moduli of Curves: A User's Guide


A guide to a rich and fascinating subject: 

algebraic curves and how they vary in families.  

Providing a broad but compact overview of the field, 

this book is accessible to readers with a modest backbround in algebraic geometry.  

It develops many techniques, including Hilbert schemes, deformation theory, 

stable reduction, intersection theory, and geometric invariant theory, 

with the focus on examples and applications arising in 

the study of moduli of curves.  

From such foundations, the book goes on to 

show how moduli spaces of curves are constructed, 

illustrates typical applications with the proofs of 

the Brill-Noether and Gieseker-Petri theorems via limit linear 

series, and surveys the most important results about their 

geometry ranging from irreducibility and complete subvarieties 

to ample divisors and Kodaira dimension. 

July 1998 378 pp.
3-540-98483-0

Springer

 


Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications, Series

Carmona, R. / Hwang, W.-L. / Torresani, B. :

Practical Time-Frequency Analysis

Time frequency analysis has been the object of intense research activity in the last decade. This book gives a self-contained account of methods recently introduced to analyze mathematical functions and signals simultaneously in terms of time and frequency variables. The book gives a detailed presentation of the applications of these transforms to signal processing, emphasizing the continuous transforms and their applications to signal problems, including estimation, denoising, detection, and synthesis. To help reader perform these analysis, Practical Time-Frequency Analysis.

Sep. 1998 486 pp.
0-12-160170-6

Academic Press

 


Studies in Advanced Mathematics,

Kuttler, K. L. :

Modern Analysis

This book provides broad coverage of real and abstract analysis. Its topics include basic measure theory in abstract and concrete form, material on classical linear functional analysis, probability, and some basic results used in the theory of partial differential equations. Modern Analysis is an ideal text for graduate-level real analysis courses and basic courses on measure theory using a modern approach.

May 1998 572 pp.
0-8493-7166-X

CRC Press

 


Hilgert, J. /Lawson, J. /Neeb, K.-H. /Vinberg, E. :

Positivity in Lie Theory:

Open Prolems

  

This book consists of 15 articles, each of which is an introduction to 

a set of open research problems in Lie theory.  

The unifying theme is of manifolds, semigroups on  the level of groups, 

and cones on the level of linear spaces and Lie algebras.  



The topics range from geometric and algebraic structure theory through harmonic analysis, 

representation theory as far as control theory and probability.  



A characteristic feature of the field called "Positivity in Lie Theory" 

is that notions of positivity in Lie theory occur in quite diverse 

settings, are motivated by a wide variety of problems and applications, 

and are approached from quite varying mathematical viewpoints.  



While this diversity is attractive for the specialists, 

it is often difficult for new-comers to the field to see the relation between 

the various aspects and to pick the right problems. 



May 1998		290 pp.



3-11-016112-5			

de Gruyter

 


Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 215:

Favini, A. / Yagi Atsushi :

Degenerate Differential Equations in Banach Spaces

Contains a detailed study of linear abstract degenerate differential equations, using both the semigroups generated by multivalued (linear) operators and extensions of the operational method from Da Prato and Grisvard. Describes recent and original results on PDEs and algebraic-differential equations, and establishes the analyzability of the semigroup generated by some degenerate parabolic operators in spaces of continuous functions.

Sep. 1998 336 pp.
0-8247-1677-9

Marcel Dekker, Inc.

 


Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 214:

Martynyuk, A. A. :

Stability by Liapunov's Matrix Function Method with Applications

Provides a systematic study of matrix Liapunov functions, incorporating new techniques for the qualitative analysis of nonlinear systems encountered in a wide variety of real-word situations.

Aug. 1998 296 pp.
0-8247-0191-7

Marcel Dekker, Inc.

 


Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 202:

Chen, Z. / Li, Y. / Micchelli, C. / Xu, Y. (eds.):

Computational Mathematics

  

Presents the refereed proceedings of the Guangzhou International Symposium on 

Computational Mathematics at Zhongshan Univ., Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.  



Nearly 90 international mathematics examine numerical optimization methods, 

wavelet analysis, computational approximation, numerical solutions 

of differential and integral equations, numerical linear algebra, 

inverse and ill-posed problems, geometric modeling, and signal 

and image processing and their applications.



Sep. 1998	608 pp.



0-8247-1946-8		

Marcel Dekker, Inc.

 


Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 201:

Dikranjan, D. / Salce, L. (eds.):

Abelian Groups, Module Theory, and Topology

  

Features a stimulating selection of papers on abelian groups, 

commutative and noncomutative rings and their modules, and 

topological groups.  Investigates currently popular topics such as

Butler groups and almost completely decomposable groups.



Aug. 1998	472 pp.



0-8247-1937-9		



Marcel Dekker, Inc.

 


Lecture Series in Mathematics & Its Applications, No. 15:

Buttazzo, G. / Giaquinta, E. / Hildebrandt, S.:

One Dimensional Variational Problems

This book combines the efforts of a distinguished team of authprs, all three renowned mathematicians and expositors, to provide the reader with a modern introduction to the calculus of variations. It should be welcome to graduate students who want to get an idea what the modern approach to get an variational problems is all about without being bothered by too many technicalities, and to lectures who want to use a modern text for a courses on the calculus of variations.

Dec. 1998 280 pp.
0-19-850465-9

Oxford Univ. Press

 


Oxford Logic Guide, Series

Sambin, G./ Smith, J. :

Twenty Years of Constructive Type Theory>> (Title Change)

Martin-Lof Constructive Type Theory

Per Martin-Lofs work on the development of constructive type theory has been of huge significance in the fields of logic and the foundations of mathematics. It is also of broader philosophical significance, and has important applications in areas such as computing science and linguistics. This volume draws together contributions from researchers whose work builds on the theory developed by martin-Lof over the last twenty-five years. As well as celebrating the anniversary of the subject it covers many of the divers fields which are now influenced by type theory. It is an invaluable record of areas of current activity, but also contains contributions from N. G. de Bruijin and William Tait, both important figures in the early development of the subject.

Aug. 1998 320 pp.
0-19-850127-7

Oxford Univ. Press

 


Oxford Logic Guide, Series

Gabbay, D. M. :

Fibring Logics

  

Modern applications of logic, in mathematics, theoretical computer science, 

and linguistics, require combined systems involving 

many different logics working together.  



In this book the author offers a basic methodology for combing--or fibring--systems.  

This means that many existing complex systems can be broken down into 

simpler components, hence making them much easier to manipulate.  



Using  this methodology the book discusses ways of obtaining 

a wide variety of multimodal intuitionistic, 

modal substructural and fuzzy systems in a uniform way. 



Oct. 1998		624 pp.



0-19-850381-4		

Oxford Univ. Press