Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
Albert D. Polimeni, SUNY, College at Fredonia
Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University

Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

ISBN: 0-201-71090-0
Copyright: 2003
Format: Cloth; 304 pp
Published: 05/28/2002
Status: Instock

Description

Mathematical Proofs is designed to prepare students for the more abstract mathematics courses that follow calculus. This text introduces students to proof techniques and writing proofs of their own. As such, it is an introduction to the mathematics enterprise providing solid introductions to relations, functions, and cardinalities of sets.

Table of Contents

0. Communicating Mathematics.
1. Sets.
2. Logic.
3. Direct Proof and Proof by Contrapositive.
4. More on Direct Proof and Proof by Contrapositive.
5. Proof by Contradiction.
6. Prove or Disprove.
7. Equivalence Relations.
8. Functions.
9. Mathematical Induction.
10. Cardinalities of Sets.
11. Proofs in Number Theory.
12. Proofs in Calculus.
13. Proofs in Group Theory.
Answers and Hints to Selected Odd-Numbered Exercises.
References Index of Symbols.
Index of Mathematical Terms.

Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, 5/E

ISBN: 0-201-72634-3
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth
Published: 07/17/2003
Status: Instock

Description

This fifth edition continues to improve on the features that have made it the market leader. The text offers a flexible organization, enabling instructors to adapt the book to their particular courses. The book is both complete and careful, and it continues to maintain its emphasis on algorithms and applications. Excellent exercise sets allow students to perfect skills as they practice. This new edition continues to feature numerous computer science applications-making this the ideal text for preparing students for advanced study.

Table of Contents
PART 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF DISCRETE MATHEMATICS.

1. Fundamental Principles of Counting.
2. Fundamentals of Logic.
3. Set Theory.
4. Properties of the Integers: Mathematical Induction.
5. Relations and Functions.
6. Languages: Finite State Machines.
7. Relations: The Second Time Around.
8. The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion.
9. Generating Functions.
10. Recurrence Relations.
11. An Introduction to Graph Theory.
12. Trees.
13. Optimization and Matching.
14. Rings and Modular Arithmetic.
15. Boolean Algebra and Switching Functions.
16. Groups, Coding Theory, and Polya's Theory of Enumeration.
17. Finite Fields and Combinatorial Designs.
Appendices.
Solutions.
Index.


Werner E. Kohler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Lee W. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems

ISBN: 0-321-12164-3
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth; 912 pp
Published: 10/02/2003
Status: Instock

Description

Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems integrates the underlying theory, the solution procedures, and the numerical/computational aspects of differential equations in a seamless way. For example, whenever a new type of problem is introduced (such as first-order equations, higher-order equations, systems of differential equations, etc.) the text begins with the basic existence-uniqueness theory. This provides the student the necessary framework to understand and solve differential equations. Theory is presented as simply as possible with an emphasis on how to use it. The Table of Contents is comprehensive and allows flexibility for instructors.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Differential Equations.
2. First Order Linear Differential Equations.
3. First Order Nonlinear Differential Equations.
4. Second Order Linear Differential Equations.
5. Higher Order Linear Differential Equations.
6. First Order Linear Systems.
7. Laplace Transforms.
8. Nonlinear Systems.
9. Numerical Methods.
10. Series Solution of Differential Equations.
11. Linear Two-Point Boundary Value Problems.
12. First Order Partial Differential Equations and the Method of Characteristics.
13. Second Order Linear Partial Differential Equations.
Appendix on Matrix Theory.

Alexei Kushner, Valentin Lychagin, Vladimir Roubtsov

Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations

Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol.101
Hardback | 500 pages 90 figures | ISBN: 0-521-82476-1

With the growing interest in the use of symmetry methods in applied mathematics, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the differential geometric view of the subject. The authors begin with a background chapter on calculus on manifolds, and then proceed to more advanced topics and applications, especially concerning singularities of the Monge-Ampere equations that describe many phenomena in geophysical fluid dynamics, for example. The authors describe many application areas and include computer code for implementing some of the techniques they describe. The book is richly illustrated.

Contents

Introduction; Part I. Symmetries and Integrals: 1. Distributions; 2. Ordinary differential equations; 3. Model differential equations and Lie superposition principle; Part II. Symplectic Algebra: 4. Linear algebra of symplectic vector spaces; 5. Exterior algebra on symplectic vector spaces; 6. A Symplectic classification of exterior 2-forms in dimension 4; 7. Symplectic classification of exterior 2-forms; 8. Classification of exterior 3-forms on a 6-dimensional symplectic space; Part III. Monge-Ampere Equations: 9. Symplectic manifolds; 10. Contact manifolds; 11. Monge-Ampere equations; 12. Symmetries and contact transformations of Monge-Ampere equations; 13. Conservation laws; 14. Monge-Ampere equations on 2-dimensional manifolds and geometric structures; 15. Systems of first order partial differential equations on 2-dimensional manifolds; Part IV. Applications: 16. Non-linear acoustics; 17. Non-linear thermal conductivity; 18. Meteorology applications; Part V. Classification of Monge-Ampere Equations: 19. Classification of symplectic MAEs on 2-dimensional manifolds; 20. Classification of symplectic MAEs on 2-dimensional manifolds; 21. Contact classification of MAEs on 2-dimensional manifolds; 22. Symplectic


Alexander Kleshchev

Linear and Projective Representations of Symmetric Groups

Publication is planned for January 2005 | Hardback | 300 pages | ISBN: 0-521-83703-0

The representation theory of the symmetric group is of perennial interest since it touches on so many areas of mathematics. This book contains some of the modern theory, to which Alexander Kleshchev was one of the main contributors. He brings the reader to the frontiers of the subject in a work which will be an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers.

Laurent Fargues, Universite Paris/CNRS, Orsay, France,
and Elena Mantovan, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Varietes de Shimura, espaces de Rapoport-Zink et correspondances de Langlands locales

Description

This volume contains two articles. Both deal with generalizations of Michael Harris' and Richard Taylor's work on the cohomology of P.E.L. type Shimura varieties of signature (1,n-1) and on the cohomology of Lubin-Tate spaces. They are based on the work of Robert Kottwitz on those varieties in the general signature case, and on the work of Michael Rapoport and Thomas Zink on moduli spaces of p-divisible groups generalizing the one of Lubin-Tate and Drinfeld.

In the first article it is proved that the ell-adique etale cohomology of some of those "supersingular" moduli spaces of p-divisible groups realizes some cases of local Langlands correspondences. For this the author establishes a formula linking the cohomology of those spaces to the one of the "supersingular" locus of a Shimura variety. Then he proves that the supercuspidal part of the cohomology of those varieties is completely contained in the one of the "supersingular" locus.

The second article links the cohomology of a Newton stratum of the Shimura variety, for example the "supersingular" stratum, to the cohomology of the attached local moduli space of p-divisible groups and to the cohomology of some global varieties in positive characteristic named Igusa varieties that generalize the classical Igusa curves attached to modular curves.

The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in number theory and algebraic geometry.

A publication of the Societe Mathematique de France, Marseilles (SMF), distributed by the AMS in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Orders from other countries should be sent to the SMF. Members of the SMF receive a 30% discount from list.

Contents

L. Fargues. Cohomologie des espaces de modules de groupes p-divisibles et correspondances de Langlands locales
Introduction
Varietes de Shimura de type P.E.L. non ramifiees
Espaces de Rapoport-Zink
Uniformisation des varietes de Shimura de type P.E.L.
Une suite spectrale de Hochschild-Serre pour l'uniformisation de Rapoport-Zink
Formule de Lefschetz sur la fibre speciale
Formule de Lefschetz sur la fibre generique
Contribution de la cohomologie de la strate basique
Application a la cohomologie des espaces Rapoport-Zink de type E.L. et P.E.L.
Appendices
References
E. Mantovan. On Certain Unitary Shimura Varieties
Introduction
Preliminaries
Igusa varieties
A system of covers of the Newton polygon strata
Group action on cohomology
Formally lifting to characteristic zero
Shimura varieties with level structure at p
The cohomology of Shimura varieties
References

Details:

Series: Asterisque, Number: 291
Publication Year: 2004
ISBN: 2-85629-150-3
Paging: 331 pp.
Binding: Softcover