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Approaches to Singular Analysis: A Volume of Advances in Partial Differential Equations (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications / Advances in Partial Differential Equations)
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3764365188 |
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The purpose of this publication is to present, in one book, various approaches to analytic problems that arise in the context of singular spaces. It is based on the workshop
"Approaches to Singular Analysis" which was held at the Humboldt University Berlin in April 1999.
The book contains articles by workshop participants as well as invited contributions. The former are expanded versions of talks given at the workshop; they offer introductions to various pseudodifferential calculi and discussions of relations between them. In addition, a limited number of invited papers from mathematicians who have made significant contributions to this field are included.
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Asymptotic Analysis for Integrable Connections With Irregular Singular Points (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Hideyuki Majima Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0387133755 |
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Control of distributed singular systems
Jacques Louis Lions Manufacturer: Gauthier-Villars ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 2040157484 |
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Differential Equations on Singular Manifolds: Semiclassical Theory and Operator Algebras (Mathematical Topics, Vol 15)
Bert-Wolfgang Schulze , B. Iu Sternin , and V. E. Shatalov Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3527400869 |
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In the book, new methods in the theory of differential equations on manifolds with singularities are presented. The semiclassical theory in quantum mechanics is employed, adapted to operators that are degenerate in a typical way. The degeneracies may be induced by singular geometries, e.g., conical or cuspidal ones. A large variety of non-standard degenerate operators are also discussed.
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The Dirichlet Problem for Parabolic Operators With Singular Drift Terms (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)
Steve Hofmann , and John L. Lewis Manufacturer: American Mathematical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0821826840 |
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Evolution Equations, Feshbach Resonances, Singular Hodge Theory (Mathematical Topics, 16)
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3527402330 |
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Evolution equations describe many processes in science and engineering, and they form a central topic in mathematics. The first three contributions to this volume address parabolic evolutionary problems: The opening paper treats asymptotic solutions to singular parabolic problems with distribution and hyperfunction data.
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Geometric Theory of Singular Phenomena in Partial Differential Equations (Symposia Mathematica)
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521632463 |
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This book gathers together papers from a workshop held in Cortona, Italy. The contributions come from a group of outstanding mathematicians and together they cover the most recent advances in the geometric theory of singular phenomena of partial differential equations occurring in real and complex differential geometry. This volume will be of great interest to all those whose research interests lie in real and complex differential geometry, partial differential equations, and gauge theory.
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hp-Finite Element Methods for Singular Perturbations (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Jens M. Melenk Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3540442014 |
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Many partial differential equations arising in practice are parameter-dependent problems that are of singularly perturbed type. Prominent examples include plate and shell models for small thickness in solid mechanics, convection-diffusion problems in fluid mechanics, and equations arising in semi-conductor device modelling. Common features of these problems are layers and, in the case of non-smooth geometries, corner singularities. Mesh design principles for the efficient approximation of both features by the hp-version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) are proposed in this volume. For a class of singularly perturbed problems on polygonal domains, robust exponential convergence of the hp-FEM based on these mesh design principles is established rigorously.
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The Method of Layer Potentials for the Heat Equation in Time-Varying Domains (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)
John L. Lewis , and Margaret A. M. Murray Manufacturer: Amer Mathematical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0821803603 |
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Recent years have seen renewed interest in the solution of parabolic boundary value problems by the method of layer potentials, a method that has been extraordinarily useful in the solution of elliptic problems. This book develops this method for the heat equation in time-varying domains. In the first chapter, Lewis and Murray show that certain singular integral operators on $L^p$ are bounded. In the second chapter, they develop a modification of the David buildup scheme, as well as some extension theorems, to obtain $L^p$ boundedness of the double layer heat potential on the boundary of the domains. The third chapter uses the results of the first two, along with a buildup scheme, to show the mutual absolute continuity of parabolic measure and a certain projective Lebesgue measure. Lewis and Murray also obtain $A_\infty$ results and discuss the Dirichlet and Neumann problems for a certain subclass of the domains.
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A new class of singular integral equations and its application to differential equations with singular coefficients
L. G Mikhailov Manufacturer: Wolters-Noordhoff ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 9001588603 |
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Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
Herman Melville Manufacturer: Library of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0940450003 |
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This first volume of The Library of America's complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. "Typee" and "Omoo," based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the "cannibals" in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. "Mardi" ("the world" in Polynesian) is a mixture of love story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of "Moby-Dick." Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature. Two companion volumes--"Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick" and "Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales," "The Confidence Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd" complete this edition of Melville's prose.Customer Reviews:
The first Library of America book I read.......2007-08-29
The Growth of a Seeker.......2000-11-18
Melville's novels are based, more or less loosely, on his life at sea. The first two novels describe voyages to the Marquesas and to Tahiti. They are filled with lush descriptions of scenery, and tales of adventure. Of the two, Typee is filled with encounters with cannibals and Polynesian maidens while Omoo presents a wider canvas of characters and scenes. Both books emphasize the sexual openness and relative simplicity of Polynesian life as compared to life in the United States and both books are critical as well of attempts to Christianize the islanders. These are not unusual themes today and probably were not as radical in the 1840s as one might suppose. The stories are well told and the descriptions alluring. These books made Mellville's reputation as a young writer.
Mardi, however, is the gem of this collection. Its relationship to the earlier novels can be analogized, say, to the relationship between the young Beethoven's first symphony on the one hand and the growth of language and thought in the second and third symphonies on the other hand. Melville prefaces the book with the note that his first two books were fact-based but were received with "incredulity" while Mardi was pure romance and "might be recieved for a verity." (Little likelihood of that)
The book as in a baroque, ornate, and bravado style that Melville would bring to completion in Moby Dick. It is an allegory involving the search for Yillah, a strange, mthical maiden, through the seas of Mardi -- Polynesian for "the world". The narrator is accompanied by King Media, by the philosopher Babbalanja, the singer Yoomi, and the historian Mohi. There are many wonderfully exasperating discussions. They wander far and wide in search of Yillah and in there wandering we here many religious allegories and many depictions of the Europe and United States of Melville's own time. There are shadowy maidens, villans, long scenes in the empty wide ocean, and pages of Melvillian thought and bluster.
The book is high American romanticism and presents a religious and personal quest by the narrator that resounds of similar quests by many in our own day. For example, there is a famous unfinished novel of the religious quest called Mount Analogue by a French writer, Duhamel, which fits quite compactly into just a few chapters of Mardi. Mardi is a long, maddenlingly difficult book but worth the effort.
Americans can learn about themselves by learning about their literature and this book is a fitting place to start (or continue). For those with the patience, it is worth reading these books in order (perhaps with other reading sandwiched in between) to discover the growth of a great and troubled American writer and chronicler of the inward life, as well as of sea journeys.
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville Manufacturer: Penguin Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0143104926 |
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Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seasnow for the first time in Penguin ClassicsFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville's personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia.
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Omoo
Herman Melville Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486408736 |
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It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ocean.Customer Reviews:
Beginning Melville - a charming start to a literary career........2005-06-09
Omoo does wander.......2001-03-21
Omoo means a rover or one who wanders from island to island. Thus the title fits the feel of the narrative, but also points out a shortcoming as the book roves too much. We are taken from situation to situation a bit too abruptly. There are many characters and events that are introduced, but usually only on a superficial level. I would have liked more in-depth analysis from Melville as many of the characters were just that--characters. Also there are many, for me, unknown nautical terms used that made the reading hard work.
However, enough of the stories give you the sense of being "omoo", especially in a time vastly different from our own, that I recommend the book, even with the many sections that make you plod.
Melville's second novel..........2000-07-18
Typee struck me most by its pictorial quality and sumptuous imagery. In Omoo, however, Melville shores up his powers of characterization, creating a fine supporting cast of individuals.
If you are only familiar with Melville's later work, you will be surprised by the wry sense of humor Melville flashes throughout. Detailed descriptions of practical jokes, drunken brawls, and cultural faux-pas will make you smile, and sometimes laugh out loud. Certain passages are actually a riot!
Also, in this novel (as compared to Typee), Melville's intrusions into the narrative are less glaring than they are in the previous novel. Yes, some of the diversions take the steam out of the narrative, as in Typee, but these diversions oftentimes give necessary exposition to illuminate characters' motivations.
The beginning of the novel effectively captures the claustrophobic atmosphere aboard a whaling ship, and the crew are indeed a motley lot.
Though you do not have to read Typee before you read Omoo (although the first page of Omoo is, literally, a continuation of the last page of Typee), I recommend you read both in conjunction. Be prepared to absorb a beautifully rendered atmosphere, describing the life of two roving beachcombers in the South Pacific in the early 19th century.
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Omoo: Adventures In The South Seas
Herman Melville Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1419138308 |
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In one corner, upon a large native couch, elevated upon posts, reclined a nymph; who, half-veiled in her own long hair, had yet to make her toilet for the day. She was the daughter of Po-Po; and a very beautiful little daughter she was; not more than fourteen; with the most delightful shape--like a bud just blown; and large hazel eyes. They called her Loo; a name rather pretty and genteel, and therefore quite appropriate; for a more genteel and lady-like little damsel there was not in all Imeeo.Download Description
In one corner, upon a large native couch, elevated upon posts, reclined a nymph; who, half-veiled in her own long hair, had yet to make her toilet for the day. She was the daughter of Po-Po; and a very beautiful little daughter she was; not more than fourteen; with the most delightful shape--like a bud just blown; and large hazel eyes. They called her Loo; a name rather pretty and genteel, and therefore quite appropriate; for a more genteel and lady-like little damsel there was not in all Imeeo.
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OMOO
HERMAN MELVILLE Manufacturer: L.C.PAGE & COMPANY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000E4AOA8 |
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THE AUTHOR'S STATED INTENTION IS TO DESCRIBE HIS EXPERIENCES DURING HIS VOYAGE TO POLYNESIA. AS BEFITS THE AUTHOR, THE TITLE OF THE WORK--OMOO--IS BORROWED FROM THE DIALECT OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS, WHERE, AMONG OTHER USES, THE WORD SIGNIFIES A ROVER, OR RATHER, A PERSON WANDERING FROM ONE ISLAND TO ANOTHER."
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Omoo
Herman. Illustrated By Reynolds Stone. Introduction By Van Wyck Brooks Melville Manufacturer: Limited Editions Club ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000QXRKV8 |
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Omoo
Herman Melville Manufacturer: HERITAGE PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SIDXL2 |
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Omoo
Herman Melville Manufacturer: Hodder and Stoughton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089EU1I |
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Omoo
Herman Melville Manufacturer: EASTON PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TXI8PM |
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Omoo
Reynolds] Melville, Herman [Stone Manufacturer: Limited Editions Club ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KVVJDQ |
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