ISBN 0-12-349703-5 E Hardback E 400 Pages
Academic Press (December 2003)
This is perhaps AP's most successful mathematics
text ever
published. Steve Smale is perhpas the best
known mathematician in
the world. The AMS recently published a three
volume set of his
collected works. He is a Field's Medalist
and has many, many
other accomplishments. This book is considered
one of his seminal
works. It came from work being done at UC-Berkeley
in the early
1970s. Since it's original publication in
1974, it became the
standard textbook for courses at this level
(graduate). Morris
Hirsch is also famous for his work. Bob Devaney,
the new co-author,
was a PhD student of Smale's at UC. He is
now at BU and has
written several books, including a best-selling
book on Chaotic
Dynamical Systems published by AW and a undergraduate
textbook on
DE and dynamical systems published by Brooks-Cole
(ITP). Smale
recommened Bob as the co-author for the revision.
The basic plan for the revision is to add
a chapter on chaotic
dynamical systems, to update all other chapters
(the book's
presentation is seriously dated) and to add
many additional
figures. Devaney will be expanding the plan
soon but the simple
plan above will go along way toward the success
of the new
edition.
ISBN 0-12-532111-2 E Hardback
Academic Press E(May 2003)
Infinite Words is an important theory in
both Mathematics and
Computer Sciences. Many new developments
have been made in the
field, encouraged by its application to problems
in computer
science. Infinite Words is the first manual
devoted to this topic.
Infinite Words explores all aspects of the
theory, including
Automata, Semigroups, Topology, Games, Logic,
Bi-infinite Words,
Infinite Trees and Finite Words. The book
also looks at the early
pioneering work of Buchi, McNaughton and
Schutzenberger.
Publication is planned for June 2003 | Paperback
| 290 pages |
ISBN: 0-521-53739-8
This first volume of the two-volume book
contains selected papers
from the international conference 'Groups
St Andrews 2001 in
Oxford' which was held at the University
of Oxford in August 2001.
Five main lecture courses were given at the
conference, and
articles based on their lectures form a substantial
part of the
Proceedings. This volume contains the contributions
from Marston
Conder (Auckland), Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
and Marcus Du Sautoy
(Cambridge). The series of Proceedings of
Groups St Andrews
conferences have provided snapshots of the
state of research in
group theory throughout the past twenty years.
As with earlier
volumes, these refereed volumes also contain
accessible surveys
of contemporary research fronts, as well
as a diverse collection
of short research articles. They form a valuable
reference for
researchers, especially graduate students,
working in group
theory.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Permutability and subnormality
in finite groups
M. J. Alejandre, A. Ballester-Bolinches,
R. Esteban-Romero and M.
C. Pedraza-Aguilera; 2. (Pro)-finite and
(topologically) locally
finite groups with a CC-subgroup Z. Arad
and W. Herfort; 3. Table
algebras generated by elements of small degrees
Z. Arad and M.
Muzychuk; 4. Subgroups which are a union
of a given number of
conjugacy classes A. R. Ashraf and H. Sahraei;
5. Some results on
finite factorized groups A. Ballester-Bolinches,
J. Cossey, X.
Guo and M. C. Pedraza-Aguilera; 6. On nilpotent-like
Fitting
formations A. Ballester-Bolinches, A. Martinez-Pastor,
M. C.
Pedraza-Aguilera and M. D. Perez-Ramos; 7.
Locally finite groups
with min-p for all primes p A. Ballester-Bolinches
and T.
Pedraza; 8. Quasi-permutation representations
of 2-groups of
class 2 with cyclic centre H. Behravesh;
9. Groups acting on
bordered Klein surfaces with maximal symmetry
E. Bujalance, F. J.
Cirre and P. Turbek; 10. Breaking points
in subgroup lattices G.
Calugareanu and M. Deaconescu; 11. Group
actions on graphs, maps
and surfaces with maximum symmetry M. D.
E. Conder; 12. On dual
pronormal subgroups and Fitting classes A.
D'Aniello and M. D.
Perez-Ramos; 13. (p; q; r)-generations of
the sporadic group O'N
M. R. Darafsheh, A. R. Ashrafi and G. A.
Moghani; 14.
Computations with almost-crystallographic
groups K. Dekimpe and B.
Eick; 15. Random walks on groups: characters
and geometry P.
Diaconis; 16. On distances of 2-groups and
3-groups A. Drapal; 17.
Zeta functions of groups: the quest for order
versus the flight
from ennui M. P. F. du Sautoy; 18. Some factorizations
involving
hypercentrally embedded subgroups in finite
soluble groups L. M.
Ezquerro and X. Soler-Escriva; 19. Elementary
theory of groups B.
Fine, A. M. Gaglione, A. G. Myasnikov, G.
Rosenberger and D.
Spellman; 20. Andrews-Curtis and Todd-Coxeter
proof words G.
Havas and C. Ramsay; 21. Short balanced presentations
of perfect
groups G. Havas and C. Ramsay; 22. Finite
p-extensions of free
pro-p groups W. Herfort and P. A. Zalesskii;
23. Elements and
groups of finite length M. Herzog, P. Longobardi
and M. Maj; 24.
Logged rewriting and identities among relators
A. Heyworth and C.
D. Wensley; 25. A characterization of F4(q)
where q is an odd
prime power A. Iranmanesh and B Khosravi;
26. On associated
groups of rings Y. B. Ishchuk.
Publication is planned for June 2003 | Paperback
| 290 pages |
ISBN: 0-521-53740-1
This second volume of the two-volume book
contains selected
papers from the international conference
'Groups St Andrews 2001
in Oxford' which was held at the University
of Oxford in August
2001. Five main lecture courses were given
at the conference, and
articles based on their lectures form a substantial
part of the
Proceedings. This volume contains the contributions
from Peter
Palfy (Eotvos Lorand, Budapest) and Michael
Vaughan-Lee (Oxford).
The series of Proceedings of Groups St Andrews
conferences have
provided snapshots of the state of research
in Group Theory
throughout the past twenty years. As with
earlier volumes, these
refereed volumes also contain accessible
surveys of contemporary
research fronts, as well as a diverse collection
of short
research articles. They form a valuable reference
for
researchers, especially graduate students,
working in group
theory.
Contents
Introduction; 27. Gracefulness, group sequencings
and graph
factorizations G. Kaplan, A. Lev and Y. Roditty;
28. Orbits in
finite group actions T. M. Keller; 29. Groups
with finitely
generated integral homologies D. H. Kochloukova;
30. Invariants
of discrete groups, Lie algebras and pro-p
groups D. H.
Kochloukova; 31. Groups with all non-subnormal
subgroups of
finite rank L. A. Kurdachenko and P. Soules;
32. On some infinite
dimensional linear groups L. A. Kurdachenko
and I. Y. Subbotin;
33. Groups and semisymmetric graphs S. Lipschutz
and Ming-Yao Xu;
34. On the covers of finite groups M. S.
Lucido; 35. Groupland O.
Macedonska; 36. On maximal nilpotent pi-subgroups
J Medina;
Characters of p-groups and Sylow p-subgroups
A. Moreto; 37. On
the relation between group theory and loop
theory M. Niemenmaa;
38. Groups and lattices P. P. Palfy; 39.
Finite generalized
tetrahedron groups with a cubic relator G.
Rosenberger, M. Scheer
and R. M. Thomas; 40. Character degrees of
the Sylow p-subgroups
of classical groups J. Sangroni; 42. Character
correspondences
and perfect isometries L. Sanus; 43. The
characters of finite
projective symplectic group PSp(4; q) M.
A. Shahabi and H.
Mohtadifar; 44. Exponent of finite groups
with automorphisms P.
Shumyatsky; 45. Classifying irreducible representations
in
characteristic zero A. Turull; 46. Lie methods
in group theory M.
R. Vaughan-Lee; 47. Chevalley groups of type
G2 as automorphism
groups of loops P. Vojtechovsky.
Publication is planned for June 2003 | Hardback
| 544 pages
220 line diagrams | ISBN: 0-521-81765-X
Publication is planned for June 2003 | Paperback|
544 pages 220
line diagrams | ISBN: 0-521-52086-X
Written specifically for electronic and mechanical
engineers and
students, this book takes quantum mechanics
out of the theory
books and into the real world, using practical
engineering
examples throughout. Levifs unique, practical
approach engages
the reader and keeps them motivated with
numerous illustrations,
exercises and worked solutions. Starting
with some scene setting
revision material on classical mechanics
and electromagnetics,
Levi takes the reader from first principles
and Schrodingerfs
equation on to more advanced topics including
scattering,
eigenstates, the harmonic oscillator and
time dependent
perturbation theory. A CD-ROM is included
which contains MATLAB
source code to support the text. Quantum
mechanics is usually
thought of as being a difficult subject to
master - this book
sets out to prove it doesnft need to be.
Contents
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards quantum
mechanics; 3. Using
the Schrodinger wave equation; 4. Scattering
in one dimension:
the propagation matrix method; 5. Eigenstates
and operators; 6.
The harmonic oscillator; 7. Fermions and
bosons; 8. Time
dependent perturbation; 9. The semiconductor
laser; 10. Time-independent
perturbation; 11. Angular momentum and the
hydrogen atom; 12.
Additional concepts; Appendix A. Table of
physical values;
Appendix B. Coordinates and trigonometry;
Appendix C. Expansions,
integrals, and mathematical relations; Appendix
D. Linear
algebra; Appendix E. Vector calculus and
Maxwellfs equations;
Appendix F. The Greek alphabet; Index.