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Stein's "Singular Integrals and Differentiability Properties of Functions" "Calculus, Early Transcendentals" (4th Ed.) by James Stewart Chui's book: Wavelets: A tutorial in Theory and Applications (Academic press, 1992) "Introduction to Ergodic Theory" by Walters http://www.amazon.com/spanish-books latex references Leslie Ramport's "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" along with Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin's "The LaTeX Companion" Kopka and Daly's "A Guide to LaTeX: Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users" Knuth's "TeXbook" SICP "Computer Approximations" by Hart, Cheney, et al. QA 297 C64 338. STABLE NON-GAUSSIAN RANDOM PROCESSES: STOCHASTIC MODELS WITH INFINITE VARIANCE Gennady Samorodnitsky and Murad S. Taqqu The familiar Gaussian models do not allow for large deviations and are thus often inadequate for modelling high variability. Non-Gaussian stable models do not possess such limitations. They all share a familiar feature which differentiates them from the Gaussian ones. Their marginal distributions possess heavy "probability tails," always with infinite variance, and in some cases with infinite first moment. The aim of this book is to make this exciting material easily accessible to graduate students and practitioners. Assuming only a first-year graduate course in probability, it includes material which has appeared only recently in journals and material not published anywhere. Each chapter begins with a brief overview and concludes with a range of exercises at varying levels of difficulty. Proofs are spelled out in detail. The exercises at varying levels of difficulty. Proofs are spelled out in detail. 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Auden, published by Random House. 1940 Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron By Robert Bryce Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Jack Kerouac "On the Road" Tom Wolfe "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" 'Brother' lends insight into Rosenberg case (By Diego Ribadeneira, Globe Staff) This is persistence. After tracking down the elusive David Greenglass, it took Sam Roberts 13 years to persuade him to sit down for an interview, which he had not done since being released from prison in 1960. The Feast of the Goat By Mario Vargas Llosa (translated, from the Spanish, by Edith Grossman) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Mario Vargas Llosa "The Birthmark" Nathaniel Hawthorne 1843 APPLIED MATHEMATICS & MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Vorticity and Incompressible Flow Majda, Andrew J. and Bertozzi, Andrea L. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical theory of vorticity and incompressible flow ranging from elementary introductory material to current research topics. While the contents center on mathematical theory, many parts of the book showcase the interaction between rigorous mathematical theory, numerical, asymptotic, and qualitative simplified modeling, and physical phenomena. The first half forms an introductory graduate course on vorticity and incompressible flow. The second half comprise a modern applied mathematics graduate course on the weak solution theory for incompressible flow. November 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521639484.html Theory of Solidification Davis, Stephen H. The processes of freezing and melting were present at the beginnings of the Earth and continue to dominate the natural and industrial worlds. The solidification of a liquid or the melting of a solid involves a complex interplay of many physical effects. This book presents in a systematic way the field of continuum solidification theory based on instability phenomena. An understanding of the physics is developed by using examples of increasing complexity with the object of creating a deep physical insight applicable to more complex problems.Applied mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and materials scientists will all find this volume of interest. October 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521650801.html Asymptotics and Mellin-Barnes Integrals Paris, R.B. and Kaminski, D. Asymptotics and Mellin-Barnes Integrals provides an account of the use and properties of a type of complex integral representation that arises frequently in the study of special functions typically of interest in classical analysis and mathematical physics. After developing the properties of these integrals, their use in determining the asymptotic behaviour of special functions is detailed. Although such integrals have a long history, the book's account includes recent research results in analytic number theory and hyperasymptotics. The book also fills a gap in the literature on asymptotic analysis and special functions by providing a thorough account of the use of Mellin-Barnes integrals that is otherwise not available in other standard references on asymptotics. September 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521790018.html Mathematical Modeling Case Studies From Industry Cumberbatch, Ellis and Fitt, Alistair (eds.) Industrial Mathematics is growing enormously in popularity around the world. Presented as a series of case studies by some of the world's most active and successful industrial mathematicians, this volume shows clearly how the process of mathematical collaboration with industry can not only work successfully for the industrial partner, but also lead to interesting and important mathematics. Thirteen different problems are considered, ranging from cooking of cereal to the analysis of epidemic waves in animal populations. This book is suitable for all final year undergraduates, master's students, and Ph.D. students who are working on practical mathematical modeling. October 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521011736.html DYNAMICS, CONTROL, DIFFERENTIAL & INTEGRAL EQUATIONS Deterministic Observation Theory and Applications Gauthier, Jean-Paul and Kupka, Ivan This book presents a general theory as well as constructive methodology in order to solve "observation problems," that is: reconstructing the full information about a dynamical process on the basis of partial observed data. A general methodology to control processes on the basis of the observations is also developed. Illustrative but practical applications in the chemical and petroleum industries are shown. This book is intended for use by scientists in the areas of Automatic Control, Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, and Physics. October 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521805937.html GENERAL MATHEMATICS All the Mathematics You Missed But Need to Know for Graduate School Garrity, Thomas A. Beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects are expected to have a daunting breadth of mathematical knowledge. This book will help readers to fill in the gaps in their preparation by presenting the basic points and a few key results of the most important undergraduate topics in mathematics: linear algebra, vector calculus, geometry, real analysis, algorithms, probability, set theory, and more. By emphasizing the intuitions behind the subject, the book makes it easy for students to quickly get a feel for the topics that they have missed and to prepare for more advanced courses. November 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521797071.html Waves in Fluids Lighthill, James Now available in the Cambridge Mathematical Library, this comprehensive textbook describes the science of waves in liquids and gases. Drawing on a subject of enormous extent and variety, it provides a thorough analysis of the most important types of waves. This classic work is lucidly written and will be invaluable to engineers, physicists, geophysicists, applied mathematicians or any research worker concerned with wave motions or fluid flows. It is especially suitable as a textbook for courses at the final year undergraduate or graduate level. December 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521010454.html ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability Pollard, David Rigorous probabilistic arguments, built on the foundation of measure theory introduced seventy years ago by Kolmogorov, have invaded many fields. Many students of statistics, biostatistics, econometrics, finance, and other changing disciplines now find themselves needing to absorb theory beyond what they might have learned in the typical undergraduate, calculus-based probability course. This book grew from a one-semester course offered for many years to a mixed audience of graduate and undergraduate students, who were expected only to have taken an undergraduate course in real analysis or advanced calculus. December 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521002893.html Weighing the Odds A Course in Probability and Statistics Williams, David Statistics do not lie, nor is Probability paradoxical. You just have to have the right intuition. In this lively look at both subjects, David Williams convinces Mathematics students of the intrinsic interest of Statistics and Probability, and Statistics students that the language of Mathematics can bring real insight and clarity to their subject. The presentation is enriched with examples drawn from all manner of applications. Statistics chapters present both the Frequentist and Bayesian approaches, emphasizing Confidence Intervals rather than Hypothesis Tests. C or WinBUGS code is provided for computational examples and simulations. Many exercises are included; hints or solutions are often provided. September 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/052100618X.html Random Graphs Bollobas, Bela This is a new edition of a now classic text. The already extensive treatment given in the first edition has been heavily revised by the author, an acknowleged expert. The addition of two new sections, numerous new results and over 150 references mean that this represents an up-to-date account of random graph theory. This book can be used by mathematicians, computer scientists and electrical engineers, as well as people working in biomathematics. It is self-contained, and with numerous exercises in each chapter, is ideal for advanced courses or self study. November 2001 http://www.cup.org/Titles/0521797225.html * R. Courant and D. Hilbert, Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume I and II, John Wiley and Sons, 1989. * D. A. Danielson, Vectors and Tensors in Engineering and Physics, Addison-Wesley, 1992. * A. Gelb et al., Applied Optimal Estimation, MIT Press, 1974. * P. E. Gill, W. Murray, and M. H. Wright, Practical Optimization, Academic Press, 1993. * G. H. Golub and C. F. Van Loan, Matrix Computations, 2nd Edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, or 3rd edition, 1997. * W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, and W. T. Vetterling, Numerical Recipes in C, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1992. * G. Strang, Introduction to Applied Mathematics, Wellesley- Cambridge Press, 1986. This book is recommended reading, and two copies of it are on reserve at the math and computer science library. * A. E. Taylor and W. R. Mann, Advanced Calculus, 3rd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1983. nabakov - lolita Jimmy Breslin - "The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez" if somebody has a copy of flemming and soner's controlled Markov Processes and viscosity solutions quasi-random sequences Kuipers, Niederreiter, Uniform distribution of sequences But there's more. On a whim, I asked Carrier's flack if she would send me Marsha Ackermann's recently published ''Cool Comfort: America's Romance With Air-Conditioning.'' As it happened, she had several copies at hand. As it happens, Ackermann, a professor at Eastern Michigan University, shares my detestation of air conditioning. As it happened, Ackermann once penned a newspaper column ''that blamed my personal discomfort, the rise of the Sun Belt, the decline of Buffalo [her hometown] and a variety of other social and physical ills on the Syracuse, New York-based Carrier Corporation.'' Student Research Projects In Calculus Cohen, Guaghan, Knoebel, Kurtz, Pengelley MAA 1991 0-88385-503-8 QA 303 S89 1991 UGL Globalization and Its Discontents By Joseph E. Stiglitz the last face you'll ever see ivan solotaroff he may be at the twilight of a long and bruising career straddling the worlds of Wall Street and Capitol Hill, but Arthur Levitt is not ready to go quietly into the sunset. 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A hundred and eighty-one terrifying pages later, Everett and Arlington start to seem just fine. Marc Reisner wrote one classic book (''Cadillac Desert,'' the definitive account of water manipulation in the West) and one very fine book (''Game Wars,'' a chronicle of wildlife poachers and the game wardens who track them down). BOOK REVIEW Lifting a taboo on Germany's past Grass's theme is a sea catastrophe By Steve Dowden, 4/20/2003 Have the Germans failed to work through the destruction of their homeland in the Second World War? Is the loss of German life lingering unwholesomely in the national psyche? Vascular Laboratory Supervisor Radiology Technologist Medical Technologist RN - Float Pool Med/Surg RN-Emergency Room Admission Nurse CT Technologist Open House April 29, 2003 In 1997 W. G. Sebald held a public lecture series in Zurich, recently published here in his collection ''On the Natural History of Destruction.'' In ''Air War and Literature,'' Sebald rebukes his fellow German writers for failing to explore the devastation of German cities. Though the taboo against fiction and drama about the Holocaust had long since fallen, Sebald argues, a taboo against writing about German suffering remains in place. Evidently Sebald's polemic struck a nerve with Gunter Grass, Germany's most visible public intellectual, its most recent recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1999), and presumably one of the writers Sebald had in mind. Grass's newest novel, ''Crabwalk,'' takes as its theme a key wartime catastrophe, not the carpet-bombing of German cities but a single disaster at sea. In January 1945 a Soviet submarine torpedoed the Wilhelm Gustloff, a pleasure liner transporting East Prussian refugees in flight from the advancing Red Army. About 9,000 people, including some military personnel but mostly women and children, went down with the Wilhelm Gustloff. If measured by loss of life, it stands as maritime history's single most calamitous sinking. Strangely, the fate of the Wilhelm Gustloff has been as little known to Germans as it is to Americans, and probably for the same reasons. After a war the Germans had started - one in which they had themselves introduced the strategic bombing of civilians, and in which Nazi Germany and its minions had slaughtered many millions of European Jews and other noncombatants - no one, including Germans themselves, felt inclined to brood over their losses. Or almost no one. In his 1969 novel, ''Slaughterhouse-Five,'' Kurt Vonnegut dwells at length on a similarly catastrophic event: the firebombing of Dresden in February 1945. As many as 135,000 people may have been killed there in a single night. Vonnegut was a prisoner of war then. He was obliged to pile up the corpses into great heaps and then burn them. ''I saw a hell of a lot of death during the Battle of the Bulge when my division was wiped out,'' Vonnegut once told an interviewer, ''but then in Dresden I saw a mountain of dead people. And that makes you thoughtful.'' But writing stories about carnage on such a massive scale presents aesthetic difficulties. Any direct approach to suffering of this magnitude would likely drown in the kitsch of noble intentions. Vonnegut's solution to the pathos trap is ironic detachment, his trademark grim comedy. Grass likewise comes at his topic from an unexpected angle, scuttling into it sideways, like a crab. He creates a narrator, Paul Pokriefke, whose mother was pregnant with him when she and her family boarded the Wilhelm Gustloff. She is one of the few survivors, and Paul was born the very night of the disaster on a rescue vessel. Consequently, Paul's life is indissolubly tied to a catastrophe of which he has no memory. Most Germans living today are tied, just so, to the German catastrophe as a whole. Shrewdly, Grass has his narrator tell not just the story of the Gustloff but also of his family in the present. He has a teenage son, Konrad, who has become a right-wing anti-Semite despite his liberal mom's diligent upbringing. But Paul's mother had also filled the boy's head with tales of German suffering and the forgotten death ship. The 18-year-old Konrad becomes obsessed with its fate and what he thinks its meaning for contemporary German life should be. He constructs a nationalistic, anti-Semitic web site to honor the ship and the hapless Nazi functionary for whom it was named. Mingling historical fact with propaganda, his site becomes a place where much overheated debate takes place. Grass presents cyberspace and sites such as Konrad's as the embodiment of Germany's conflicted unconscious. It is here rather than in the democratic public space of literature, journalism, law, and history that the unfinished business of the German past festers. For Grass, the cost of repressing past misery is this: It secretly poisons the present with resentment, rage, and violence. Complementing Konrad's obsession are the similar but opposite manias of other Internet zealots. Online he chats with a teenager who so fanatically identifies with the victims of Nazi hatred that he pretends to be Jewish. When he and Konrad finally meet, Konrad shoots him to death. In the logic of the novel, this demented bloodshed draws its motive force from the repression of a history that has been ceded to the crackpot fringe. It is evidently Grass's intention to bring the longstanding taboo of German losses out into the open for a good airing. In fact, the narrator claims to have been forced by none other than Gunter Grass to tell the story: ''This business has been gnawing at the old boy. ... Never, he said, should his generation have kept silent about such misery, merely because its own sense of guilt was so overwhelming, merely because for years the need to accept responsibility and show remorse took precedence, with the result that they abandoned the topic to the right wing. This failure, he says, was staggering.'' But must reactionary violence be the inevitable outcome of repressed history? The feeling of being preached at is strong. The irrepressible verve of Grass's storytelling can take only some of the edge off his heavy-handed didacticism. Grass's American readers may not be left with the feeling of having read a richly imagined novel, but many will come away pondering the questions that ''Crabwalk'' raises. Crabwalk By Gunter Grass Translated, from the German, by Krishna Winston Harcourt, 234 pp., $25 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Putting the reins on management theories By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff, 4/20/2003 Modern management ideas are part of the atmosphere at Babson College, the business school in Wellesley. Terms like ''corporate culture'' and ''change agent'' are right up there with oxygen and baseball caps in their pervasiveness on campus. But the influence of ambitious, intoxicating management theories comes to an abrupt stop at the door to James Hoopes's office in Hollister Hall, next to the student center. Hoopes, a professor of history and a specialist in American culture and intellectual history, takes a dim view of the spread of management talk outside of a business context. ''As an historian at a business school I've been exposed to many management theories,'' he said, ''and in most cases the concepts are being applied in surprisingly broad ways.'' Hoopes's perspective is unusual. A scholar who is more accustomed to studying the thought of philosophers like Thoreau and Emerson, he set himself the task a few years ago of plumbing the legacy of influential business management thinkers like Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. What he discovered surprised him. A great deal of the advice promulgated by management gurus appeared to him to be aimed at guiltily glossing over the cold, hard, authoritarian facts of business, where bosses tell employees what to do. There was also a tendency for business advice to expand beyond the corporate walls into broader areas of society and government. Hoopes's general view is apparent in the title of his most recent book, published earlier this month: ''False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas are Bad for Business Today.'' The book traces the evolution of management consulting from the early stopwatch-toting, efficiency-obsessed ''scientific management'' of Frederick W. Taylor to more recent approaches that emphasize ''great man'' leadership and human-potential movement work-as-fulfillment. Surprisingly, although contemporary management gurus talk a great deal about ''empowering'' employees, Hoopes is not convinced. In fact he believes that soft-pedaling the reality of work only confuses people. The reality, Hoopes said, is that a company is an undemocratic institution built on the idea of empowering managers to extract revenue producing performance from employees. ''Power and authority are dirty words today,'' he said, ''but the fact is that managers need to use both to successfully run a company.'' At the same time Hoopes does not deny that American business has benefitted from generations of business thinkers who have developed more sophisticated ways to manage the workplace. Some of Drucker's early ideas, for example, are still relevant and helpful today, Hoopes said. In fact some management ideas have been too successful, inspiring enthusiasts to apply them outside the business world. This is a trend that is likely to continue. With George W. Bush, we now have our first MBA in the White House. The business schools are also turning out a hundred thousand new MBAs every year. Many more students are taking management courses as undergraduates. Business titles are among the book industry's most successful staples. ''We're really educating an entire population in management theory,'' he said. ''This stuff is now really the primary language for understanding human society and human values.'' As an example, Hoopes cites a recent school committee meeting he watched on his local access channel. At one point a parent stood up and told the committee that parents' views must be heeded, ''because we are your customers.'' ''The committee should really be listening because the audience consists of voters, constituents, citizens,'' Hoopes said. ''They should be listening because the committee and the parents should be thinking of the future of the children, and because they share an interest in the school system and in the education of their kids. . . Using a business term like `customers' really confuses the issue. Public policy decisions should be made through a governing process, not a managing process.'' Marketing talk has also leaked into general parlance. A few years ago trendy business guru Tom Peters began promoting the concept of ''Brand You,'' urging people to think of themselves as an exciting brand-able product. Hoopes also mentioned how a public institution like the Museum of Fine Arts now presents a very business-oriented face to the public with its gift shop, and restaurant, and heavily marketed events. All this, Hoopes emphasized again, does not mean that he is bearish on management ideas in general. ''Many of these ideas work in a business setting,'' he said. ''The problem is the extension of them to a much broader context. ''When these ideas get out of the corporation, and into politics and society and nonprofit organizations,'' he added, ''that's reason to scratch our heads and ask if that's really where we want them.'' D.C. Denison can be reached at denison@globe.com. ON CRIME | BOOK REVIEW Cracking the code, in Paris, LA, and at the blackjack table By Jim Fusilli, 4/27/2003 The murder at the Louvre of Jacques Sauniere sets the world of academia and the Opus Dei sect of the Roman Catholic Church on a collision course in Dan Brown's ''The Da Vinci Code.'' What's at stake is nothing less than the veracity of the fundamental tenets of Christianity. Perhaps the world's preeminent symbologist, Sauniere was a member of the Priory of Sion, a clandestine society that has counted among its members Sandro Botticelli, Victor Hugo, Isaac Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci, and served as guardian to knowledge the church had long sought to suppress. When Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of religious symbology, is called to the crime scene by the French police, he finds the elderly victim left numerous clues recognizable only to someone of his arcane skills. Soon he's joined by Sophie Neveu, a police officer, cryptologist, and Sauniere's granddaughter, and with Sauniere's killer on their tail, they scramble to protect the Priory's greatest secret. The race across France and the United Kingdom leads him -- and us -- on a fascinating journey through a covert, enigmatic world revealed through a seemingly endless collection of codes, puzzles, anagrams, cryptograms, and messages hidden not only in da Vinci's art but in things we think we know well. We are deceived, it seems, not only by those who seek to deceive us, but also by our failure to understand the complex nature of ideas and common beliefs. ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a dazzling performance by Brown, a delightful display of erudition. Though his mini-lectures sometimes hijack the narrative, they're necessary to keep us informed and occasionally permit us to try to unravel puzzles with Langdon and Neveu. Brown delivers a crackling, intricate mystery, complete with breathtaking escapes and several stunning surprises. It's challenging, exciting, and a whole lot more. A series of seemingly unrelated deaths quickly come together under the eye of Eve Diamond, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, in Denise Hamilton's ''Sugar Skull,'' the follow-up to her successful debut, ''The Jasmine Trade.'' As bodies pile up all over Los Angeles, Diamond's journalistic instincts serve her well as she investigates three of the dead -- a 15-year-old girl found in an abandoned government building, the ultra-posh wife of a wealthy mayoral candidate, and the hard-working son of a Mexican music impresario -- and learns that blind passion can slither across socioeconomic boundaries. A romantic entanglement almost sends Diamond off track, but her persistence and zeal help her find justice and the kind of meaningful stories she wants to write. Hamilton, a former Los Angeles Times reporter, captures beautifully the go-here, go-there life of a suburban reporter on a big-city daily, and in Diamond she's created a sympathetic lead character, one who's a tad insecure, eager, and tentative at the same time, and always engaging in an untethered sort of way. Despite great gobs of sometimes tedious prose on life in Los Angeles, its history, and geography, ''Sugar Skull'' is a pleasing journey with a character who at times feels remarkably real. Retired Atlantic City cop Tony Valentine is a rare man who can tell when the gaming tables and slots at a casino are getting ripped off, which apparently happens more often than you might have thought. In James Swain's ''Sucker Bet,'' his third novel to feature the likable yet tough-as-nails Valentine, the shady business revolves around a complicated scam at a casino run by Native Americans in south Florida and a fixed college basketball game. A former member of John Gotti's crew is involved, as is a hedonistic drummer for a rock group called One-Eyed Pig, a hooker with a heart of gold, and Mr. Beauregard, who's rightfully billed as the world's smartest chimpanzee. Meanwhile, Valentine has a girlfriend-wrestler who insists he perform in her act with her, an ad-hoc business colleague more his age who's professionally and personally devoted to him, and a witless son. Are we surprised when Valentine winds up grappling on a highway with an alligator that's been stashed in his car's trunk? It's all great fun because Swain, an expert on card trickery and casino cheating, is an entertaining writer whose breezy style and flair for wise-guy dialogue make the story zoom by. At the same time, his Valentine is an agreeable, ultimately admirable character, a tough widower who's struggling to remember he needs to live for more than the job. ''Losing his wife had hardened his heart; he knew that for a fact,'' Swain writes of Valentine. ''But had it also hardened his soul?'' As Valentine is tested by confrontations with ever-increasing stakes, we find that, against long odds, it has not. The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown Doubleday, 464 pp., $24.95 Sugar Skull By Denise Hamilton Scribner, 304 pp., $25 Sucker Bet By James Swain Ballantine, 304 pp., $19.95O Special : A Novel by Bella Bathurst (Author) Jerry Mander wrote "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" nic kelman's "girls: a paean" How would you move Mt. Fuji? Microsoft's cult of the puzzle -- How the world's smartest companies select the most creative thinkers By William Poundstone Little Brown, 288 pp/, $22.95 The Photograph By Penelope Lively Viking, 231 pp., $24.95 Dear Colleagues; I am happy (relieved?) to announce finally the publication of my new book. The details are Practical Analysis in One Variable Donald Estep Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics 2002, Springer, ISBN 0-387-95484-8 This book attempts to place the basic ideas of real analysis and numerical analysis together in an applied setting that is both accessible and motivational to young students. The essentials of real analysis are presented in the context of a fundamental problem of applied mathematics, which is to approximate the solution of a physical model. The framework of existence, uniqueness, and methods to approximate solutions of model equations is sufficiently broad to introduce and motivate all the basic ideas of real analysis. The book includes background and review material, numerous examples, visualizations and alternate explanations of some key ideas, and a variety of exercises ranging from simple computations to analysis and estimates to computations on a computer. The book can be used in an honor calculus sequence typically taken by freshmen planning to major in engineering, mathematics, and science, or in an introductory course in rigorous real analysis offered to mathematics majors. The table of contents, preface, introduction, and index can be viewed at http://www.math.colostate.edu/~estep/paov/practical.html Best, Don Donald Estep Department of Mathematics Colorado State University http://www.math.colostate.edu/~estep The Pursuit of Alice Thrift By Elinor Lipman Eric Schlosser's previous book, ''Fast Food Nation,'' looked at the innards of the meat industry and found exploitation of workers and a distressing view of the food that ends up on our table. With ''Reefer Madness,'' subtitled ''Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market,'' he explores the emergence of an underground economy that he says may account for as much as 10 percent of the gross domestic product. "Higher," Neal Bascomb "Perfectly Legal," David Cay Johnston catcher in the rye the nose gogol As a physicist with a literary sensibility, Lightman has written before with exhilarating insight about the human dimensions of time and space; ''The Diagnosis'' was a smart novel about the information age run amok, while ''Einstein's Dreams'' followed consciousness around the corner into the past and future both. There are glimmers of this intellect at work in ''Reunion,'' particularly in Lightman's melancholy grasp of the sovereign ineluctability of time, that ''hour of eternity,'' imagined but scarcely understood by Charles, when ''the world is both opening and closing at once.'' Such a rueful consciousness is a pleasure to witness, even when visited upon poor old Charles, who fell in love with a wraith who's about as real as the Sugar Plum Fairy. No wonder he never got over her. Reunion By Alan Lightman IBN WARRAQ, the pseudonymous author and former Muslim-turned-apostate, was in town recently, wearing large dark glasses and sporting a mustache to disguise his identity as he discussed his new book on Islam at the Charles Hotel. Warraq's appearance-altering efforts might seem a bit of an affectation - until one realizes that the penalty for apostasy, according to Islamic fundamentalists, can be as severe as death, and the book Warraq was discussing, in a talk taped for broadcast on C-Span 2, is ''Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out'' (Prometheus Books). Disguise aside, Warraq, a controversial figure in the world of Islam, won't let safety worries silence him. ''I refuse to belong to a religion that will not not have me as a member,'' said Warraq, in a play on Groucho Marx's famous line about club membership. In ''Why I Am Not A Muslim,'' his 1995 book, Warraq detailed the obstacles Islam erects in the path of human rights, equal rights for women, and critical inquiry. In ''Leaving Islam,'' which Warraq has edited (and to which he has contributed a number of chapters), other apostates offer personal stories about their lives, struggles, and decisions to abandon Islam. augusten burroughs "dry" "running with scissors" dennis and schnabel - 33.60 http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/CL16.html Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems - Second Edition Yousef Saad - 62.30 http://ec-securehost.com/SIAM/ot82.html SIAM is pleased to announce a new series, Fundamentals of Algorithms, and the first book in the series, Solving Nonlinear Equations with Newton's Method by C. T. Kelley. 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Conway, Functions of One complex Variable, second edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978. G.B. Folland, Real Analysis, second edition, John Wiley, New York, 1999. B. Palka, An Introduction to Complex Function Theory, second printing, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995. H.L. Royden, Real Analysis, Macmillan, New York, 1988. W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis, third edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987. R. Wheeden and A. Zygmund, Measure and Integral, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1977. Rudin Principles of Mathematical Analysis C. Carath'eodory, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations of the First Order, 2nd English Edition, Chelsea, 1982. F.W.J. Olver, Asymptotics and Special Functions, Academic Press, 1974. M. Reed and B. Simon, Methods of Modern Physics, Vol. 1, Functional analysis. R.E. Showalter, Hilbert Space Methods for Partial Differential Equations, available at World Wide Web address http://ejde.math.swt.edu//mono-toc.html A. Avez, Introduction to Functional Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Differential Calculus, Wiley, 1986. L. Debnath and P. Mikusi'nski, Introduction to Hilbert Spaces with Applications, Academic Press, 1990. I.M. Gelfand and S.V. Fomin, Calculus of Variations, Prentice-Hall, 1963. E. Kreyszig, Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications, 1978. J.T. Oden and L.F. Demkowicz, Applied Functional Analysis, CRC Press, 1996. W. Rudin, Functional Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1991. K. Yosida, Functional Analysis, Springer-Verlag, 1980. Armstrong, Basic Topology, Springer, 1983 (principal text). Greenberg, Lectures on Algebraic Topology, W.A. Benjamin, 1967. Massey, Algebraic Topology, an Introduction, 4th corrected printing, Springer, 1977. Munkres, Elements of Algebraic Topology, Addison-Wesley, 1984. Guillemin Pollack, Differential Topology, Prentice-Hall, 1974 (basic reference). Hirsch, Differential Topology, Springer, 1976. Milnor, Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint, University of Virginia Press, 1965. Spivak, Calculus on Manifolds, Benjamin, 1965 (differentiation, Inverse Function Theorem, Stokes Theorem). Spivak, Calculus Spivak, Calculus on Manifolds, Benjamin, 1965 (differentiation, Inverse Function Theorem, Stokes Theorem). Munkres, analysis on manifolds loomis and sternberg, advanced calculus available at http://www.math.harvard.edu/~shlomo/docs/Advanced_Calculus.pdf manfredo p. do carmo, differential geometry of curves and surfaces, 1976 spivak, a comprehensive introduction to differential geometry five volumes, 1st ed 1970, 2nd ed 1979, 3rd ed 2005? ?bloch, a first course in geometric topology and differential geometry, 1997 an uneasy alliance: the mathematics research center at the university of wisconsin 1956-1987. chandra and robinson. biased as all hell, but a good read the masters. cp snow. ???? 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C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry Doris Schattschneider and Harry N. Abrams, 2004 louise a. desalvo adultery The Pastry Queen: Royally Good Recipes From the Texas Hill Country's Rather Sweet Bakery & Cafe by Rebecca Rather with Alison Oresman Ten Speed Press on bullshit harry g frankfurt princeton university press, 2004? Laura Penny Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit khushwant singh, "train to pakistan" originally published in 1956; republished in 2006 with photos by margaret bourke-white; roli books, new delhi games prisoners play: the tragicomic worlds of polish prison marek m. kaminski princeton university press, 2004 peter lax functional analysis wiley, 2002 see review in SIAM Reviews, 47(2), 383--385, June 2005 Giaquinta, Mariano, and Modica, Giuseppe Mathematical analysis : approximation and discrete processes birkhauser, 2004 see review prior to one above good use as a supplemental textbook for an analysis class tomography RC 78.7 T6 H47 PCL Stacks / Herman, Gabor T. / Image reconstruction from projections : the fundamentals of computerized tomography. / San Francisco / 1980 The mathematics of computerized tomography natterer rc 78.7 t6 n37 1986 (also reprinted as a SIAM classic in 2001; physics bent) Principles of computerized tomographic imaging kak & slaney rc 78.7 t6 k35 1988 (also reprinted as a SIAM classic in 2001; mathematical bent) Mathematical methods in image reconstruction natterer & wubbeling ta 1637 n388 2001 QA 403.3 H83 1998 Physics-Math-Astronomy Library / Hubbard, Barbara Burke, 1948- / The world according to wavelets : the story of a mathematical technique in the making. / 2nd ed. / Wellesley, Mass / 1998 Computational methods for inverse problems curtis vogel qa 327 v575 2002 inverse problem theory and methods for model parameter estimation albert tarantola qa 371 t357 2005 (bayesian; general inverse problems; many refs, examples; quasi-2nd ed) ct scans of molecules / electron orbitals paul b. corkum & david m. villeneuve at canada's national research council (ottowa) reported in nature??? and april 2005 sci am Squares: a public place design guide for urbanists Mark C. Childs '81 UNM Press 2004 dirty sally by michael simon thriller/mystery set in austin in late 80s ella in bloom ? owning jolene by shelby hearon apr 10; lucky strike by nancy zafris; can't get enough by connie briscoe; oh my stars by lorna landvik coffee: a dark history antony wild ''Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban" is an expanded version of the ''Havana Honey" series published earlier this year online at Salon.com, where author Lisa Wixon wrote using the name of her main character, Alysia Vilar. fear of flying erica jong john burdett, "bangkok 8" and "bangkok tattoo" -- mysteries for kristy? mathematics by experiment: plausible reasoning in the 21st century jonathan borwein and david bailey 2004 1-56881-211-6 experimentation in mathematics: computational paths to discovery jonathan borwein, david bailey, and roland girgensohn 2004 1-56881-136-5 review in SIAM Reviews book reviews, 47(4), 832--833, Dec 2005 for love of insects thomas eisner QL 463 E38 2003 Life Science Library la dame d'esprit: a biography of the marquise du châtelet judith p zinsser viking press, 2006 How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics William Byers princeton univ press, 2007 Air and water : the biology and physics of life's media / Mark W. 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Corr. 2nd printing edition (January 28, 2002) Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II: Stiff and Differential-Algebraic Problems (Springer Series in Computational Mathematics) by Ernst Hairer and Gerhard Wanner (Hardcover - Mar 19, 2004); Springer; 2nd rev. ed. 1996. 3rd printing edition (March 19, 2004) Geometric Numerical Integration: Structure-Preserving Algorithms for Ordinary Differential Equations (Springer Series in Computational Mathematics) by Ernst Hairer, Christian Lubich, and Gerhard Wanner (Hardcover - April 2006); Springer; 2nd ed. edition (April 2006) "100 suns" "postcards from mars", jim bell "The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss", Claire Nouvian "Saturn: A new view", Lovett, Horvath, and Cuzzi diane arbus: an aperture monograph elmer batters (publ. by taschen) legs that dance to elmer's tune From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose P.D. Grünwald, I.J. Myung, M. Pitt (editors). Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory and Applications. MIT Press, April 2005. This contains in chapters one and two: P.D. Grünwald, A Tutorial Introduction to the Minimum Description Principle. P.D. Grünwald, The Minimum Description Length Principle. MIT Press, June 2007 the tutorial is also available on grunwald's homepage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~pdg/publicationpage.html www.cwi.nl/~pdg/ a bright shining lie (w/1998 film w/bill paxton) john paul vann three cups of tea morgenstern (sp?) both vets From: Bruce Bailey Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:32:42 -0400 Subject: New book, Lagrange Multiplier Approach to Variational Problems Announcing the July 24, 2008 publication from SIAM of: Lagrange Multiplier Approach to Variational Problems and Applications, by Kazufumi Ito and Karl Kunisch July 2008 / xviii + 341 pages / Softcover / ISBN 978-0-898716-49-8 List Price $99.00 / SIAM Member Price $69.30 / Order Code DC15 This comprehensive monograph analyzes Lagrange multiplier theory and shows its impact on the development of numerical algorithms for problems posed in a function space setting. The authors develop and analyze efficient algorithms for constrained optimization and convex optimization problems based on the augumented Lagrangian concept and cover such topics as sensitivity analysis, convex optimization, second order methods, and shape sensitivity calculus. This book is for researchers in optimization and control theory, numerical PDEs, and applied analysis. It will also be of interest to advanced graduate students in applied analysis and PDE optimization. Kazufumi Ito is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and an affiliate of the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University. Karl Kunisch is a Professor at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Graz, Austria. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Mario Bebendorf Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:51:46 +0200 Subject: New book, Hierarchical Matrices Hierarchical Matrices: A Means to Efficiently Solve Elliptic Boundary Value Problems M. Bebendorf Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 63, Springer, 2008. Hierarchical matrices are an efficient framework for large-scale fully populated matrices arising, e.g., from the finite element discretization of solution operators of elliptic boundary value problems. In addition to storing such matrices, approximations of the usual matrix operations can be computed with logarithmic-linear complexity, which can be exploited to setup approximate preconditioners in an efficient and convenient way. Besides the algorithmic aspects of hierarchical matrices, the main aim of this book is to present their theoretical background. The book contains the existing approximation theory for elliptic problems including partial differential operators with nonsmooth coefficients. Furthermore, it presents in full detail the adaptive cross approximation method for the efficient treatment of integral operators with non-local kernel functions. The theory is supported by many numerical experiments from real applications. The book is intended both as a text book for graduate students in mathematics and as a reference work for mathematicians, scientists, and engineers who deal with non-local operators in their fields. For more information on hierarchical matrices see http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~bebendorf/AHMED.html Announcing the December 19, 2008 publication from SIAM of: Scientific Computing with Case Studies, by Dianne P. O?Leary December 2008 / xvi + 383 pages / ISBN 978-0-898716-66-5 List Price $92.00 / SIAM Member Price $64.40 / Order Code OT109 Learning through doing is the foundation of this book, which allows readers to explore case studies as well as expository material. The book provides a practical guide to the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear equations, differential equations, optimization problems, and eigenvalue problems. Scientific Computing with Case Studies is intended as a primary text for courses in numerical analysis, scientific computing, and computational science for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students. Physicists, chemists, biologists, earth scientists, astronomers, and engineers whose work involves numerical computing also will find the book useful as a reference and tool for self-study. To order or for more information, please visit www.siam.org/books. The One-Hour Activist: The 15 Most Powerful Actions You Can Take to Fight for the Issues and Candidates You Care About