Cohen, E./Riesenfeld, R. F./Elber, G.
Geometric Modeling with Splines: An Introduction
Written by researchers who have helped found and shape the field, this book is a definitive
introduction to geometric modeling. The authors present all of the necessary techniques for
curve and surface representations in computer-aided modeling with a focus on how the
techniques are used in design. They achieve a balance between mathematical rigor and broad
applicability. Appropriate for readers with a moderate degree of mathematical maturity, this
book is suitable as an undergraduate or graduate text, or particularly as a resource for
self-study.
Year: 2000 ISBN: 1-56881-137-3
600 pages. Hardcover.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: Volume 1, Adding Games
This classic on games and how to play them intelligently is being re-issued in a new, four volume
edition. This book has laid the foundation to a mathematical approach to playing games. The wise
authors wield witty words, which wangle wonderfully winning ways.
Year: 2001 ISBN: 1-56881-130-6
296 pages. Hardcover.
Bruce Berndt at al., editors
Number Theory for the Millennium III:
The Millennial Conference on Number Theory
Building on the tradition of an outstanding series of conferences at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, the organizers attracted an international group of scholars to open the new Millennium with a conference that reviewed the current state of number theory research and pointed to future directions in the field. The conference was the largest general number theory conference in recent history, featuring a total of 159 talks, with the plenary lectures given by George Andrews, Jean Bourgain, Kevin Ford, Ron Graham, Andrew Granville, Roger Heath-Brown, Christopher Hooley, Winnie Li, Kumar Murty, Mel Nathanson, Ken Ono, Carl Pomerance, Bjorn Poonen, Wolfgang Schmidt, Chris Skinner, K. Soundararajan, Robert Tijdeman, Robert Vaughan, and Hugh Williams. The Proceedings Volumes of the conference review some of the major
number theory achievements of this century and to chart some of the directions in which the subject will be heading during the new century. These volumes will serve as a useful reference to researchers in the area and an introduction to topics of current interest in number theory for a general audience in mathematics.
Year: 2001 ISBN: 1-56881-152-7
400 pages. Hardcover.
Bruce Donald, Kevin Lynch, Daniela Rus, editors
Algorithmic and Computational Robotics: New Directions:
The Fourth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations
Algorithms that control the computational processes relating sensors and actuators are indispensable for robot navigation and the perception of the world in which they move. Therefore, a deep understanding of how algorithms work to achieve this control is essential for the development of efficient and usable robots in a broad field of applications. An interdisciplinary group of scientists gathers every two years to document the progress in algorithmic foundations of robotics. This volume addresses in particular the areas of control theory, computational and differential geometry in robotics, and applications to core problems such as motion planning,
navigation, sensor-based planning, and manipulation.
Year: 2001 ISBN: 1-56881-125-X
408 pages. Hardcover.
David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Keith Devlin
The Experimental Mathematician:
A Computational Guide to the Mathematical Unknown
Experimental Mathematics might be considered a contradiction in terms and yet, the age-old tradition of experimenting with numbers, patterns, and figures has gained respectability with the advent of computers. Their ability to process large amounts of information, to calculate and check enormous numbers of numerical identities, to create geometric images from a large spectrum of parameters, enables mathematicians to investigate, test, and create patterns of mathematical significance. Such patterns in turn suggest conjectures and sometimes reveal ideas that lead to rigorous mathematical proofs. The authors undertake a journey into this new and fascinating area and open up vistas of mathematics to interested laymen as well as to mathematicians
who are intrigued by this new and highly productive approach to research. Using examples that require little technical background, the authors establish approaches and techniques that lead to an understanding of the experimental method. They go on to more sophisticated mathematical subjects and ultimately to current research projects that will serve as a challenge and inspiration to young mathematicians.
Year: 2002 ISBN: 1-56881-136-5
300 pages. Hardcover.
A. Gheondea, R.N. Gologan, D. Timotin (Editors)
Operator Theoretical Methods
xviii+416 pages,
The Theta Foundation, Bucharest 2000
ISBN 973-99097-2-8
List of participants
J. Agler and J.E. McCarthy: Nevanlinna-Pick Kernels and Localization
C.-G. Ambrozie: A Note on Moment Problems
Z.D. Arova: On $J$-Unitary Nodes with Strongly Regular $J$-Inner Characteristic Functions in the Hardy Class $H_2^{n\times n}$
E. Blanchard: On Finiteness of the Number of $N$-Dimensional Hopf $C^*$-Algebrasy
L.Burlando: On the Weighted Reduced Minimum Modulus
L.P. Castro and F.-O. Speck: An Operator Approach to a Boundary Value Problem for the Helmholtz Equation
I. Cialenco: On the Nonselfadjoint Perturbations of the Wiener-Hopf Integral Operators
P.A. Cojuhari: Estimates of the Number of Perturbed Eigenvalues
P.A. Cojuhari and S. Corsac: Absence of the Singular Continuous Spectrum for Some Perturbed Wiener-Hopf Integral Operators
T. Constantinescu, A.H. Sayed, and T. Kailath: Structured Extensions of Matrices
V.~Deaconu: Continous Graphs and $C^*$-Algebras
D. Guido and T. Isola: Singular Traces, Dimensions, and Novikov-Shubin Invariants
H.~Helson and J.I.~Tanaka: Singular Cocycles and the Generator Problem
H. Helson and J.I. Tanaka: Singular Cocycles and the Generator Problem
J. Janas and S. Naboko : On Subordination Properties of One-Dimensional Discrete Schr\"odinger Operator
P.C. Kunstmann: Kernel Estimates and $L^p$ Spectral Independence of Differential and Integral Operators
J.-Ph. Labrousse: Geodesics in the Space of Linear Relations on a Hilbert Space
S. Litvinov: On Besicovitch Weighted Ergodic Theorem in von Neumann Algebras
Z. Liu: On Adjoints of Operators on $L^1$
V.M. Manuilov: Almost Commutativity Implies Asympotic Commutativity
C.-K. Ng: Amenability of Hopf $C^*$-Algebras
C. Peligrad and L. Zsid\'o: Open Projections of $C^*$-Algebras: Comparison and Regularity
D. Poguntke: Banach Algebras Associated to Laplace Operators on the Heisenberg Group and on the Affine Group of the Real Line
C. Pop: Bimodules norm\'es repr\'esentables sur des espaces hilbertiens
J. Renault: Cuntz-Like Algebras
E.A. Suciu: Elementary Replacements and ${\rm Ext}^2$ Groups for Hilbert Modules Over a Function Algebra
F.-H. Vasilescu: Operator Theoretic Characterizations of Moment Functions