The versatile David Foster Wallace tackles the concept of infinity, exploring its essential nature: is it simply an abstraction, or an actual mathematical entity? Wallace looks at Georg Cantor's 19th-century comments on the issue and includes his own thoughts on a question that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries.
In this delightful new book, Kaplan and his wife, Ellen, once again take readers on a witty, literate, and accessible tour of the world of mathematics. Where "The Nothing That Is" looked at math through the lens of zero, "The Art of the Infinite" takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking.
Unusually clear and interesting classic covers real numbers and sequences, foundations of the theory of infinite series and development of the theory (series of valuable terms, Euler's summation formula, asymptotic expansions, other topics). Includes exercises.
This classic text is known to and used by thousands of mathematicians and students of mathematics throughout the world. It gives an introduction to the general theory of infinite processes and of analytic functions together with an account of the principal transcendental functions.
Fourier analysis is a subject that was born in physics but grew up in mathematics. Now it is part of the standard repertoire for mathematicians, physicists and engineers. In most books, this diversity of interest is often ignored, but here Dr Korner has provided a shop-window for some of the ideas, techniques and elegant results of Fourier ...
Published by McGraw-Hill since its first edition in 1941, this classic text is an introduction to Fourier series and their applications to boundary value problems in partial differential equations of engineering and physics. It will primarily be used by students with a background in ordinary differential equations and advanced calculus. There are ...
The book was written from lectures given at the University of Cambridge and maintains throughout a high level of rigour whilst remaining a highly readable and lucid account. Topics covered include the Planchard theory of the existence of Fourier transforms of a function of L2 and Tauberian theorems. The influence of G. H. Hardy is apparent from ...
This book, written at the level of a first course in calculus and linear algebra, offers a lucid and concise explanation of mathematical wavelets. Evolving from ten years of classroom use, its accessible presentation is designed for undergraduates in a variety of disciplines (computer science, engineering, mathematics, mathematical sciences) as ...
Elementary-level text by noted Soviet mathematician offers superb introduction to positive-integral elements of theory of continued fractions. Properties of the apparatus, representation of numbers by continued fractions, more. 1964 edition.
This is an up-to-date exposition of the analytic theory of continued fractions in the complex domain with emphasis on applications and computational methods.
In "Infinity and the Mind", Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Rucker acquaints us with Godel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past ...
How can the infinite, a subject so remote from our finite experience, be an everyday working tool for the working mathematician? Blending history, philosophy, mathematics and logic, Shaughan Lavine answers this question with clarity. An account of the origins of the modern mathematical theory of the infinite, his book is also a defense against the ...
From the preface of the author: '...I have divided this work into two books; in the first of these I have confined myself to those matters concerning pure analysis. In the second book I have explained those thing which must be known from geometry, since analysis is ordinarily developed in such a way that its application to geometry is shown. In ...
This classic text is one of the most useful and practical expositions of Fourier's series, and spherical, cylindrical, and ellipsoidal harmonics. Includes 190 problems, approximately half with answers. 1893 edition.
Focusing on theory more than computations, this 3-part text covers sequences, definitions, and methods of induction; combinations; and limits, with introductory problems, definition-related problems, and problems related to computation limits. Answers and hints to the test problems are provided; "road signs" mark passages requiring particular ...
The statistical analysis of time series has undergone dramatic change in the last 20 years and this revision of the classic text by the late Sir Maurice Kendall features an integrated up-to-date treatment by Keith Ord that uses data analytic devices and more modern approaches to model building.
First published in 1968, An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis has firmly established itself as a classic text and a favorite for students and experts alike. Professor Katznelson starts the book with an exposition of classical Fourier series. The aim is to demonstrate the central ideas of harmonic analysis in a concrete setting, and to provide a ...
The aim of this book is to extend the major finite-dimensional state-space results to a large class of distributed parameter systems. These distributed parameter systems contain models for delay systems, as well as partial differential equations, and allow for unbounded inputs and outputs.
This book, combining wavelets and the world of the spectrum, focuses on recent developments in wavelet theory, emphasizing fundamental and relatively timeless techniques that have a geometric and spectral-theoretic flavor. The exposition is clearly motivated and unfolds systematically, aided by numerous graphics. Key features of the book include: ...
The objective of the book is to focus insights in the field of Acoustics of Musical Instruments, Room-Acoustics and Psycho-Acoustics on applications in musical performance. In this context, the directional dependence of sound radiation by musical instruments and the voice, as well as questions of concert hall design and room acoustical computer ...
Classic, graduate-level text discusses the Fourier series in Hilbert space, examines further properties of trigonometrical Fourier series, and concludes with a detailed look at the applications of previously outlined theorems. 1956 edition.
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