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This book reviews higher dimensional Nevanlinna theory and its relationship with Diophantine approximation theory. Coverage builds up from the classical theory of meromorphic functions on the complex plane with full proofs, to the current state of research.

With contributions by numerous experts

From its origins in the minimization of integral functionals, the notion of variations has evolved greatly in connection with applications in optimization, equilibrium, and control.

A description of the global properties of simply-connected spaces that are non-positively curved in the sense of A. Part I provides an introduction to the geometry of geodesic spaces, while Part II develops the basic theory of spaces with upper curvature bounds.

This book covers the fundamentals of convex analysis, a refinement of standard calculus with equalities and approximations replaced by inequalities. Reviews minimization algorithms, which provide immediate application to optimization and operations research.

From the reviews: "L.R. Shafarevich showed me the first edition [...] and said that this book will be from now on the book about class field theory. In fact it is by far the most complete treatment of the main theorems of algebraic number theory, including function fields over finite constant fields, that appeared in book form."

Sheaf Theory is modern, active field of mathematics at the intersection of algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and partial differential equations.

A 1988 classic, covering Two-dimensional Surfaces; Domains on the Plane and on Surfaces; Brunn-Minkowski Inequality and Classical Isoperimetric Inequality; Isoperimetric Inequalities for Various Definitions of Area; and Inequalities Involving Mean Curvature.

The Local Langlands Conjecture for GL(2) contributes an unprecedented text to the so-called Langlands theory. It presupposes no special knowledge beyond the beginnings of the representation theory of finite groups and the structure theory of local fields.

But other subjects also play an important role: homology theory, fibration theory (and characteristic classes in particular), and also branches of mathematics that are not directly a part of topology, but which use topological methods in an essential way: for example, the theory of indices of elliptic operators and the theory of complex manifolds.

The authors present the general theory of categories and functors, emphasizing inductive and projective limits, tensor categories, representable functors, ind-objects and localization.

The second volume of the Geometry of Algebraic Curves is devoted to the foundations of the theory of moduli of algebraic curves. Its authors are research mathematicians who have actively participated in the development of the Geometry of Algebraic Curves.

In recent years there has been enormous activity in the theory of algebraic curves. Our goal is to give a comprehensive and self-contained account of the extrinsic geometry of algebraic curves, which in our opinion constitutes the main geometric core of the recent advances in curve theory.

For a long time - at least from Fermat to Minkowski - the theory of quadratic forms was a part of number theory. On the basis of both - the number theory of quadratic forms and the ideas of modern algebra - Witt opened, in 1937, a new chapter in the theory of quadratic forms.

Lehner University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 and National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC 20234, U.S.A. Bernoulli polynomials and Bernoulli numbers ....... Zeros of the Bernoulli polynomials ............................. A multiplication formula for the Bernoulli polynomials ...........

The expanded second edition of this book reflects new developments including the Feigenbaum universality of period doubling, the Zoladec solution, the Iljashenko proof, the Ecalle and Voronin theory, the Varchenko and Hovanski theorems and the Neistadt theory.

The representation theory of locally compact groups has been vig orously developed in the past twenty-five years or so; of the various branches of this theory, one of the most attractive (and formidable) is the representation theory of semi-simple Lie groups which, to a great extent, is the creation of a single man: Harish-Chandra.

This two-volume treatise is a standard reference in the field. It pays special attention to the historical aspects and the origins partly in applied problems-such as those of geometric optics-of parts of the theory.

The usefulness of a joint consideration of classical theory of deterministic perturbations together with stochastic perturbations is illustrated in this section.

This volume focuses on the concrete interplay between the analytic, probabilistic and geometric aspects of Markov diffusion semigroups. It covers a large body of results and techniques, from the early developments in the mid-eighties to current achievements.

The focus of this book is the large-scale statistical behavior of solutions of divergence-form elliptic equations with random coefficients, which is closely related to the long-time asymptotics of reversible diffusions in random media and other basic models of statistical physics.

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