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Notices of the American Mathematical Society ABCD Springer.Com ISSN 0002-9920 Notices of the American Mathematical Society ABCD springer.com Highlights in Springer’s eBook Collection of the American Mathematical Society September 2009 Volume 56, Number 8 Bôcher, Osgood, ND and the Ascendance NEW NEW 2 EDITION EDITION of American Mathematics forms bridges between From the reviews of the first edition The theory of elliptic curves is Mathematics at knowledge, tradition, and contemporary 7 Chorin and Hald provide excellent distinguished by the diversity of the Harvard life. The continuous development and explanations with considerable insight methods used in its study. This book growth of its many branches permeates and deep mathematical understanding. treats the arithmetic theory of elliptic page 916 all aspects of applied science and 7 SIAM Review curves in its modern formulation, technology, and so has a vital impact on through the use of basic algebraic our society. 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Topics innumerable lesser treatments, what special well as the more physical and engineering- discussed include the rationality of quo- insight have Israel and Gasca brought to our oriented treatments of the subject of wave tient spaces, cohomological invariants of understanding of their subject? Everything motion. In mathematics, one can follow the quasi-simple groups of Lie type, rationality mentioned in this review can be found in their implications of this work into the subse- of the moduli space of curves, and rational book’s intense and detailed descriptions of the quent lectures that Hadamard gave on the points on algebraic varieties. cultural and scientifi c background of the times, Cauchy problem for linear partial differen- Contributors: F. Bogomolov; T. Petrov; and of the genesis of ideas that accompany tial equations. But one should regard this Y. Tschinkel; Ch. Böhning; G. Catanese; and extend beyond von Neumann’s work, masterful treatise not only as a precursor to I. 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HISTORICAL STUDIES, Topics in Operator VOL. 38 Dynamical Systems with Semigroups Applications using MAPLE Shmuel Kantorovitz, Bar Ilan University, Partial Differential Stephen Lynch, Manchester Metropolitan Ramat Gan, Israel Equations University, UK This monograph is concerned with the Second Edition 2010. 2ND ED. APPROX. 500 P. 350 ILLUS. interplay between the theory of operator Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt SOFTCOVER semigroups and spectral theory. The ba- University, Nashville, TN, USA ISBN 978-0-8176-4389-8 CA. $59.95 sics on operator semigroups are concisely covered in this self-contained text. Part “The author’s intent is to present an Now in softcover I deals with the Hille–Yosida and Lumer– elementary introduction to pdes... In Phillips characterizations of semigroup contrast to other elementary textbooks on Iterated Maps on the generators, the Trotter–Kato approximation pdes...much more material is presented theorem, Kato’s unifi ed treatment of the on the three basic equations: Laplace’s Interval as Dynamical exponential formula and the Trotter prod- equation, the heat and wave equations... Systems uct formula, the Hille–Phillips perturbation The presentation is clear and well Pierre Collet, École Polytechnique, theorem, and Stone’s representation of organized...The text is complemented by Palaiseau, France; Jean-Pierre Eckmann, unitary semigroups. Part II explores gener- numerous exercises and hints to proofs.” Université de Genève, Switzerland alizations of spectral theory’s connection to —Mathematical Reviews (on the fi rst edition) operator semigroups. 2009. 2ND ED. XX, 390 P. 18 ILLUS. 2009. REPRINT OF THE 5TH PRINTING OF 2010. APPROX. 305 P. 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