Contains a collection of research papers originating from the 6th... Læs mere
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach in discussing the evidence for and against the so-called 'hygiene hypothesis'. It does so in the context of Darwinian medicine, which deploys our knowledge of evolution in an effort to cast light on human diseases.
Lists the required preliminary knowledge in set and measure theory, topology and algebra.... Læs mere
This introduction to probability theory is an excellent textbook for a one-semester course for undergraduates in any direction that uses probabilistic ideas. Compact but readable, it appeals to intuition and introduces technical machinery only when necessary.
This book is devoted to a theory of gradient flows in spaces which are not necessarily endowed with a natural linear or differentiable structure. The book originates from lectures by L. Ambrosio at the ETH Zurich in Fall 2001 and contains new results.
Matroid theory was invented in the middle of the 1930s by two mathematicians independently, namely, Hassler Whitney in the USA... Læs mere
This monograph is devoted to the development of the theory of pseudo-di?erential n operators on spaces with symmetries.
With contributions by numerous experts
This book reconstructs, both from the historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz’s geometrical studies, focusing in particular on the research Leibniz carried on in the last years of his life.
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Introduction We have been experiencing since the 1970s a process of “symplectization” of S- ence especially since it has been realized that symplectic geometry... Læs mere
Category theory is a general mathematical theory of structures and of structures of structures.