Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume: 117
2010; approx. 333 pp; hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-5278-1
Expected publication date is January 12, 2011.
In 2007 Terry Tao began a mathematical blog to cover a variety of topics, ranging from his own research and other recent developments in mathematics, to lecture notes for his classes, to nontechnical puzzles and expository articles. The first two years of the blog have already been published by the American Mathematical Society. The posts from the third year are being published in two volumes. The present volume consists of a second course in real analysis, together with related material from the blog.
The real analysis course assumes some familiarity with general measure theory, as well as fundamental notions from undergraduate analysis. The text then covers more advanced topics in measure theory, notably the Lebesgue-Radon-Nikodym theorem and the Riesz representation theorem, topics in functional analysis, such as Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces, and the study of spaces of distributions and key function spaces, including Lebesgue's $L^p$ spaces and Sobolev spaces. There is also a discussion of the general theory of the Fourier transform.
The second part of the book addresses a number of auxiliary topics, such as Zorn's lemma, the Caratheodory extension theorem, and the Banach-Tarski paradox. Tao also discusses the epsilon regularisation argument--a fundamental trick from soft analysis, from which the book gets its title. Taken together, the book presents more than enough material for a second graduate course in real analysis.
2011; approx. 252 pp; softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-5280-4
Expected publication date is February 24, 2011.
There are many bits and pieces of folklore in mathematics that are passed down from advisor to student, or from collaborator to collaborator, but which are too fuzzy and nonrigorous to be discussed in the formal literature. Traditionally, it was a matter of luck and location as to who learned such "folklore mathematics". But today, such bits and pieces can be communicated effectively and efficiently via the semiformal medium of research blogging. This book grew from such a blog.
In 2007 Terry Tao began a mathematical blog to cover a variety of topics, ranging from his own research and other recent developments in mathematics, to lecture notes for his classes, to nontechnical puzzles and expository articles. The first two years of the blog have already been published by the American Mathematical Society. The posts from the third year are being published in two volumes. This second volume contains a broad selection of mathematical expositions and self-contained technical notes in many areas of mathematics, such as logic, mathematical physics, combinatorics, number theory, statistics, theoretical computer science, and group theory. Tao has an extraordinary ability to explain deep results to his audience, which has made his blog quite popular. Some examples of this facility in the present book are the tale of two students and a multiple-choice exam being used to explain the $P = NP$ conjecture and a discussion of "no self-defeating object" arguments that starts from a schoolyard number game and ends with results in logic, game theory, and theoretical physics.
The first volume consists of a second course in real analysis, together with related material from the blog, and it can be read independently.
Undergraduates, graduate students, and research mathematicians interested in all areas of mathematics.
Expository articles
Technical articles
Bibliography
Index
American Mathematical Society Translations--Series 2, Volume: 231
Advances in the Mathematical Sciences
2010; 180 pp; hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-5272-9
Expected publication date is December 15, 2010.
This book is a collection of articles devoted to the theory of linear operators in Hilbert spaces and its applications. The subjects covered range from the abstract theory of Toeplitz operators to the analysis of very specific differential operators arising in quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and the theory of elasticity; the stability of numerical methods is also discussed. Many of the articles deal with spectral problems for not necessarily selfadjoint operators. Some of the articles are surveys outlining the current state of the subject and presenting open problems.
Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in spectral theory of differential operators.
Contemporary Mathematics, Volume: 529
2010; 202 pp; softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-5247-7
Expected publication date is December 4, 2010.
These lecture notes provide a pedagogical introduction to quantum mechanics and to some of the mathematics that has been motivated by this field. They are a product of the school "Entropy and the Quantum", which took place in Tucson, Arizona, in 2009. They have been written primarily for young mathematicians, but they will also prove useful to more experienced analysts and mathematical physicists. In the first contribution, William Faris introduces the mathematics of quantum mechanics. Robert Seiringer and Eric Carlen review certain recent developments in stability of matter and analytic inequalities, respectively. Bruno Nachtergaele and Robert Sims review locality results for quantum systems, and Christopher King deals with additivity conjectures and quantum information theory. The final article, by Christian Hainzl, describes applications of analysis to the Shandrasekhar limit of stellar masses.
Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in mathematical aspects of quantum physics.
Contemporary Mathematics, Volume: 530
2010; 200 pp; softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-4833-3
Expected publication date is December 5, 2010.
This volume originated from the International Congress "ULTRAMATH: Applications of Ultrafilters and Ultraproducts in Mathematics", which was held in Pisa, Italy, from June 1-7, 2008.
The volume aims to present the state-of-the-art of applications in the whole spectrum of mathematics which are grounded on the use of ultrafilters and ultraproducts. It contains two general surveys on ultrafilters in set theory
Contemporary Mathematics, Volume: 531
2010; 264 pp; softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-4865-4
Expected publication date is December 19, 2010.
This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the international conference IPM 20--Combinatorics 2009, which was held at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences in Tehran, Iran, May 15-21, 2009.
The conference celebrated IPM's 20th anniversary and was dedicated to Reza Khosrovshahi, one of the founders of IPM and the director of its School of Mathematics from 1996 to 2007, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
The conference attracted an international group of distinguished researchers from many different parts of combinatorics and graph theory, including permutations, designs, graph minors, graph coloring, graph eigenvalues, distance regular graphs and association schemes, hypergraphs, and arrangements.
Graduate students interested in combinatorics.