(Hardback)
0-19-856602-6
Publication date: 6 May 2004
24 half tone, 3 line, 234mm x 156mm
Fourth and fifth volume of well-acclaimed series
Only complete editions of Godels work available in English
Contains translated material and original material
Description
Kurt Godel was the most outstanding logician of the 20th century
and a giant in the field. These books are part of a five volume
set that makes available all of Godels writings. The first three
volumes consist of the papers and essays of Godel. These final
two volumes of the set deal with Godel's correspondence with his
contemporary mathematicians, the fourth volume consisting of
material from correspondents from A-G and the fifth from H-Z.
Readership: Students and researchers of mathematics, philosophy,
computer science, and the history of mathematics. General
interest readers enthusiastic about any of the above.
(Hardback)0-19-852073-5
(Paperback)0-19-852074-3
Publication date: January 2005
304 pages, 61 b/w line drawings, 246mm x 189mm
Series: Oxford Master Series in Physics
Very elementary and pedagogical approach to quantum field theory.
Covers modern developments at level appropriate for advanced
undergraduates.
Contains unique range of topics on current quantum field theory.
Provides clear and accurate explanations.
Includes more advanced topics for graduate students and
researchers.
Description
Quantum field theory has undergone extraordinary developments in
the last few decades and permeates many branches of modern
research such as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter,
statistical mechanics and critical phenomena. This book
introduces the reader to the modern developments in a manner
which assumes no previous knowledge of quantum field theory.
Readership: Primary: final-year undergraduates specialising in
high-energy and condensed matter physics. Secondary: graduate
students and researchers working in theoretical physics (especially
particles, but also condensed matter, statistical mechanics,
cosmology and astrophysics) or experimental particle physics.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Lorentz and Poincare symmetries in quantum field theory
3 Classical field theory
4 Quantization of free fields
5 Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams
6 Cross sections and decay rates
7 Quantum electrodynamics
8 The low-energy limit of the electroweak theory
9 Path integral quantization
10 Non-Abelian gauge theories
11 Spontaneous symmetry breaking
(Hardback)
0-19-856674-3
Publication date: January 2005
352 pages, 13 b/w line drawings, 240mm x 168mm
Series: Oxford Graduate Texts
Up-to-date, offering modern view on quantum mechanics.
Provides deeper understanding of quantum field theory and its
applications.
Presents well-established material in a coherent way.
Written in a very pedagogical style by internationally renowned
author.
Description
'... an exceptionally clear and thorough book ... should be about
as good a book on the subject as one could imagine.' -John
Chalker, University of Oxford
'... very well written ... and not only pedagogically useful, but
also useful to the experienced practitioner.' -Randall Kamien,
University of Pennsylvania
The mathematical formalism based on path integrals, as introduced
by Feynman, has changed our view about quantum mechanics. The
modern theory of fundamental interactions at the microscopic
level (quantum field theory) is hardly comprehensible without
path integrals. Moreover, path integrals have allowed us to
establish a direct mathematical relation between the theory of
ordinary phase transitions and quantum field theory. The goal of
this book is to introduce students to this topic within the
context of ordinary quantum mechanics and non-relativistic many-body
theory, before facing the problems associated with the more
involved quantum field theory formalism.
Readership: Primary: Graduate students and lecturers in
theoretical physics, in particular in particle and statistical
physics. Secondary: mathematicians.
With a new introduction by Brian Greene
Paper | December 2004 | ISBN: 0-691-12027-7
192 pp. | 5 x 8 | 6 line illus.
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive
paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left
Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study,
Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered
the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures
constituted an overview of his then controversial theory of
relativity. Princeton University Press made the lectures
available under the title The Meaning of Relativity, the first
book by Einstein to be produced by an American publisher. As
subsequent editions were brought out by the Press, Einstein
included new material amplifying the theory. A revised version of
the appendix "Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric
Field," added to the posthumous edition of 1956, was
Einstein's last scientific paper.
Brian Greene is Professor of Physics and of Mathematics at
Columbia University. He is the author of the best-selling The
Elegant Universe and, most recently, The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Review:
"A condensed unified presentation intended for one who has
already gone through a standard text and digested the mechanics
of tensor theory and the physical basis of relativity. Einstein's
little book then serves as an excellent tying-together of loose
ends and as a broad survey of the subject."--Physics Today
Included in series
North-Holland Mathematics Studies, 196
Description
There has been a common perception that computational complexity
is a theory of "bad news" because its most typical
results assert that various real-world and innocent-looking tasks
are infeasible. In fact, "bad news" is a relative term,
and, indeed, in some situations (e.g., in cryptography), we want
an adversary to not be able to perform a certain task. However, a
"bad news" result does not automatically become useful
in such a scenario. For this to happen, its hardness features
have to be quantitatively evaluated and shown to manifest
extensively. The book undertakes a quantitative analysis of some
of the major results in complexity that regard either classes of
problems or individual concrete problems. The size of some
important classes are studied using resource-bounded topological
and measure-theoretical tools. In the case of individual
problems, the book studies relevant quantitative attributes such
as approximation properties or the number of hard inputs at each
length. One chapter is dedicated to abstract complexity theory,
an older field which, however, deserves attention because it lays
out the foundations of complexity. The other chapters, on the
other hand, focus on recent and important developments in
complexity. The book presents in a fairly detailed manner
concepts that have been at the centre of the main research lines
in complexity in the last decade or so, such as: average-complexity,
quantum computation, hardness amplification, resource-bounded
measure, the relation between one-way functions and pseudo-random
generators, the relation between hard predicates and pseudo-random
generators, extractors, derandomization of bounded-error
probabilistic algorithms, probabilistically checkable proofs, non-approximability
of optimization problems, and others. The book should appeal to
graduate computer science students, and to researchers who have
an interest in computer science theory and need a good
understanding of computational complexity, e.g., researchers in
algorithms, AI, logic, and other disciplines.
Audience
University libraries, researchers in the field theory of
computation, computational complexity, algorithms, and al
graduate students in computer science.
Contents
Contents Preface. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Abstract complexity theory.
3. P, NP, and E. 4. Quantum computation. 5. One-way functions,
pseudo-random generators. 6. Optimization problems. A. Tail
bounds. Bibliography. Index.
Hardbound, ISBN: 0-444-82841-9, 352 pages, publication date: 2004
0-534-38774-8
564 pages Case Bound 8 x 9 1/4
Addressing a growing need in the statistics marketplace, this new
text is the only introductory statistics book designed
specifically for students majoring in the sciences. STATISTICS
FOR THE SCIENCES lets students see the beauty of statistics using
calculus, and contains applications directly tied to natural and
physical sciences. No longer will science majors have to learn
from texts with applications that are not relevant to their
studies. In STATISTICS FOR THE SCIENCES, the math is at the right
level, and the exercises and examples appeal to students majoring
in natural and physical sciences.
Features
This calculus-based text helps science majors see the beauty of
statistics through applications geared toward the sciences. The
math is at an appropriate level and the applications are relevant--an
important boost to student motivation and ease of understanding.
The authors capitalize on students' math ability through
integration of computer-generated graphs and simulations to
illustrate concepts.
The book emphasizes data analysis and pays careful attention to
the assumptions behind statistical inference. Data sets are
available to students online at StatLib, hosted by the Statistics
Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and in particular, the
Data and Story Library (DASL). Additional data sets are available
online through various federal agencies.
Section Exercises help students think about the topic at hand,
often extending an earlier example or providing commentary on a
related article.
Review Exercises include both standard "drill" problems
as well as more extended applications problems, requiring
students to incorporate material from the chapter into previously
learned material. Some of the exercises require calculus-related
skills (such as sketching distribution functions and sketching
power curves).
There are programmable calculator exercises and class labs.
ISBN-4-946552-13-8
August 2004
Contents
On oscillation of nonlinear delay equations of population
dynamics
Leonid Berezansky, Elena Braverman & Lev Idels
Comparing Krasnoselskij and Mann iterative methods for
Lipschitzian generalized pseudo-contractions
Vasile Berinde
A universal infinite-dimensional modulus with applications in
Fixed Point Theory
Tomas Dominguez Benavides and Beatriz Gavira
Stability of the Fixed Point Property in M-Abstract Banach
Lattices
Tomas Dominguez Benavides and M. Angeles Japon Pineda
A Survey on Nonexpansive Selections of Metric Projection
Rafael Espinola and Genaro Lopez
(r,k,l) -Somewhat uniformly noncreasy Banach spaces
Helga Fetter and Berta Gamboa de Buen
Strong convergence theorems by a hybrid method for nonexpansive
mappings and inverse-strongly-monotone mappings
Hideaki Iiduka and Wataru Takahashi
Fixed point properties of some sets inl 1
Wieslawa Kaczor and Stanislaw Prus
Geodesic Geometry and Fixed Point Theory II
W.A. Kirk
Bounds on iterations of asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive
mappings
Ulrich Kohlenbach and Branimir Lambov
Some Geometrical Properties and Fixed Point Theorems in Modular
Spaces
Poom Kumam
Some remarks concerning D-Metric Spaces
Zead Mustafa and Brailey Sims
The compact AR problem and related topics
Sehie Park
Multivalued Picard and weakly Picard operators
Adrian Petrusel and Ioan A. Rus
Invariant measures for generalized random dynamical systems
Arcady Ponosov and Eugene Stepanov
Generic existence of small invariant sets
Simeon Reich and Alexander J. Zaslavski
Relaxed Projections, Averaged Mappings and Image Recovery
Hong-Kun Xu