By J. C. Willems (auth.), J. Baillieul, J. C. Willems (eds.)

This self-contained quantity surveys 3 a long time of mathematical keep an eye on thought and whilst describes how the paintings of Roger Brockett formed and encouraged its improvement. 9 survey articles written via top specialists within the box, who've additionally been heavily linked to Roger Brockett at quite a few phases in his profession, deal with the topic cohesively and intensive. This quantity will offer an enormous reference for graduate scholars and researchers,as good as for mathematicians, engineers and scientists whose paintings includes recommendations and the language of keep an eye on and structures concept.

By Gade,Thorup,Sander (editors)

By Alexander, Franklin Graybill and Duane Boes Mood

By Weimin Han

This booklet specializes in the theoretical points of small pressure thought of elastoplasticity with hardening assumptions. It presents a entire and unified remedy of the mathematical concept and numerical research. it really is divided into 3 components, with the 1st half offering an in depth advent to plasticity, the second one half overlaying the mathematical research of the pliability challenge, and the 3rd half dedicated to errors research of varied semi-discrete and completely discrete approximations for variational formulations of the elastoplasticity. This revised and extended version contains fabric on single-crystal and strain-gradient plasticity. furthermore, the whole publication has been revised to make it extra available to readers who're actively interested in computations yet much less so in numerical analysis.

Reviews of past edition:

“The authors have written a good e-book which might be suggested for experts in plasticity who desire to be aware of extra concerning the mathematical concept, in addition to people with a historical past within the mathematical sciences who search a self-contained account of the mechanics and arithmetic of plasticity theory.”
(ZAMM, 2002)

“In precis, the booklet represents a magnificent finished assessment of the mathematical method of the speculation and numerics of plasticity. Scientists in addition to teachers and graduate scholars will locate the e-book very worthwhile as a reference for examine or for getting ready classes during this field.” (Technische Mechanik)

"The booklet is professionally written and may be an invaluable connection with researchers and scholars drawn to mathematical and numerical difficulties of plasticity. It represents an enormous contribution within the sector of continuum mechanics and numerical analysis." (Math stories)

By Chia Gek-Ling, Lim Chong-Keang (auth.), Khee Meng Koh, Hian Poh Yap (eds.)

By Milton Friedman

By Reginald G. Golledge (auth.), Irwin Altman, Joachim F. Wohlwill (eds.)

The papers comprising this moment quantity of Human habit and the surroundings symbolize, as do their predecessors, a pass element of present paintings within the vast sector of difficulties facing interrelation­ ships among the actual atmosphere and human habit, at either the person and the combination degrees. contemplating the 2 volumes as a unit, we have now incorporated papers masking a extensive spectrum of difficulties starting from the theoretical to the utilized, and from the disciplinary-based to the interdisciplinary undefined. Approxi­ mately 1/2 the papers are written by means of psychologists, with the rest coming, partly, from such different disciplines as sociology, geography, and from such various utilized fields as common activity, panorama structure, city making plans, and opera­ tions examine. The volumes hence supply an outline of labor on present topical difficulties. but, because the box is constructing, specialization is necessarily expanding apace, and the editors in addition to the writer became confident of the desirability for futu're volumes during this sequence to be prepared alongside topical strains, with successive volumes dedicated to various points of this quite sprawling box. therefore, quantity three, at present within the drawing board, should be dedicated solely to the interplay of youngsters with the actual surroundings, thought of from assorted viewpoints, back together with authors from different fields of specialization.

By Aiena P.

By Sheng-wu He, Jia-gang Wang, Jia-an Yan

By J. Stanley Warford (auth.), Karlheinz Hug (eds.)

The first English e-book on part Pascal and BlackBox part Builder. It introduces the reader to laptop programming, i.e. algorithms and information constructions. The ebook covers many new programming techniques that experience emerged in recent times together with object-oriented programming and layout styles. It emphasizes the sensible features of software program building with no neglecting their strong theoretical foundation.
"As a consequence, scholars are consistently capable of anchor what they study in software eventualities that make speedy sense." (Prof. Clemens Szyperski, Redmond)
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