New Directions in Applied Mathematics

Papers Presented April 25/26, 1980, on the Occasion of the Case Centennial Celebration

Buch | Softcover

163 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4612-5653-3 (ISBN)

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It is close enough to the end of the century to make a guess as to what the Encyclopedia Britannica article on the history of mathematics will report in 2582: "We have said that the dominating theme of the Nineteenth Century was the development and application of the theory of functions of one variable. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, mathematicians turned optimistically to the study off unctions of several variables. But wholly unexpected difficulties were met, new phenomena were discovered, and new fields of mathematics sprung up to study and master them. As a result, except where development of methods from earlier centuries continued, there was a recoil from applications. Most of the best mathematicians of the first two-thirds of the century devoted their efforts entirely to pure mathe matics. In the last third, however, the powerful methods devised by then for higher-dimensional problems were turned onto applications, and the tools of applied mathematics were drastically changed. By the end of the century, the temporary overemphasis on pure mathematics was completely gone and the traditional interconnections between pure mathematics and applications restored. "This century also saw the first primitive beginnings of the electronic calculator, whose development in the next century led to our modern methods of handling mathematics.

Combinatorics : Trends and Examples.- Control Theory and Singular Riemannian Geometry.- On Certain Topological Invariants Arising in System Theory.- Operations Research and Discrete Applied Mathematics.- Symplectic Projective Orbits.- Four Applications of Nonlinear Analysis to Physics and Engineering.- Bifurcation, Catastrophe, and Turbulence.- The Emphasis on Applied Mathematics Today and Its Implications for the Mathematics Curriculum.

Co-Autor	K. Baclawski
Zusatzinfo	163 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Mathematik
ISBN-10	1-4612-5653-4 / 1461256534
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-5653-3 / 9781461256533
Zustand	Neuware