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by Renzo Llorente, Deaprtment of Philosophy, Saint Louis University
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure. He was an original social theorist, and many of his writings attest to an innovative interpretation of various concepts and commitments central to Marxist thought. This is one of the first...
Light and Vacuum
The WaveParticle Nature of the Light and the Quantum Vacuum. Electromagnetic Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics Beyond the Standard Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Light and Vacuum presents a synthesis of selected fundamental topics of electromagnetic wave theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED) and analyzes the main theoretical difficulties encountered to ensure a coherent mathematical description of the simultaneous wave–particle nature of light, put in...
Formality Theory
From Poisson Structures to Deformation Quantization
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book is a survey of the theory of formal deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds, in the formalism developed by Kontsevich. It is intended as an educational introduction for mathematical physicists who are dealing with the subject for the first time. The main topics covered are the theory...
by Marco Lanzagorta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
This book offers a concise review of quantum radar theory. Our approach is pedagogical, making emphasis on the physics behind the operation of a hypothetical quantum radar. We concentrate our discussion on the two major models proposed to date: interferometric quantum radar and quantum illumination....
Kant and the End of War
A Critique of Just War Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The paperback edition (published in 2016) includes a new preface with a discussion of recent examples.
Kant stands almost unchallenged as one of the major thinkers of the European Enlightenment. This book brings the ideas of his critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discussions presupposed that successful causal attribution implies explanation. The success of quantum theory challenged this presupposition. Bohr introduced...
Analytic Number Theory
An Introductory Course(Reprinted 2009)
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
This valuable book focuses on a collection of powerful methods of analysis that yield deep number-theoretical estimates. Particular attention is given to counting functions of prime numbers and multiplicative arithmetic functions. Both real variable (”elementary”) and complex variable (”analytic”)...
by René Schoof
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Eugène Charles Catalan made his famous conjecture – that 8 and 9 are the only two consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers – in 1844 in a letter to the editor of Crelle’s mathematical journal. One hundred and fifty-eight years later, Preda Mihailescu proved it.
Catalan’s Conjecture...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Multiple Dirichlet Series, L-functions and Automorphic Forms gives the latest advances in the rapidly developing subject of Multiple Dirichlet Series, an area with origins in the theory of automorphic forms that exhibits surprising and deep connections to crystal graphs and mathematical physics. ...
Notes on the Binomial Transform
Theory and Table with Appendix on Stirling Transform
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The binomial transform is a discrete transformation of one sequence into another with many interesting applications in combinatorics and analysis. This volume is helpful to researchers interested in enumerative combinatorics, special numbers, and classical analysis. A valuable reference, it can also...
Number Theory – Diophantine Problems, Uniform Distribution and Applications
Festschrift in Honour of Robert F. Tichy’s 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This volume is dedicated to Robert F. Tichy on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Presenting 22 research and survey papers written by leading experts in their respective fields, it focuses on areas that align with Tichy’s research interests and which he significantly shaped, including Diophantine...
by M. Mendelson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Many Sides is the first full-length study of Protagorean antilogic, an argumentative practice with deep roots in rhetorical history and renewed relevance for contemporary culture.
Founded on the philosophical relativism of Protagoras, antilogic is a dynamic rather than a formal approach to...
by Jonathan Roffe
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Financial markets play a huge role in society but theoretical reflections on what constitutes these markets are scarce. Drawing on sources in philosophy, finance, the history of modern mathematics, sociology and anthropology, Abstract Market Theory elaborates a new philosophy of the market in order to redress this gap between reality and theory.
Poetic Force
Poetry after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by...