Author: Robert H. Johnson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: courant
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1991-01-11
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0844214191
ISBN-13: 9780844214191

Advanced Beginning through Upper Intermediate This outstanding supplemental book equips students with more than 200 practical expressions they need to communicate both in real-life situations and when faced with proficiency-type testing.

Author: Constance Reid
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: courant
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1996-04-19
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0387946705
ISBN-13: 9780387946702

Almost twenty-five years after his death, Richard Courant remains a highly controversial figure. The deep affection he inspired among friends, colleagues and students is still matched by distrust and dislike in much of the mathematical community. He was a man of such contradictions in character and action that one of his colleagues, resorting to an accepted mathematical method of proof, claimed "by contradiction" that he simply did not exist. But exist he did. On April 1, 1933, he was an internationally famous and influential German professor, the director of the first institute in the world

Author: Constance Reid
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: courant, hilbert
Number of Pages: 547
Published: 1986-05-22
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0387962565
ISBN-13: 9780387962566

If the life of any 20th century mathematician can be said to be a history of mathematics in his time, it is that of David Hilbert. To the enchanted young mathematicians and physicists who flocked to study with him in Goettingen before and between the World Wars, he seemed mathematics personified, the very air around him"scientifically electric." His remarkably prescient proposal in 1900 of twenty-three problems for the coming century set the course of much subsequent mathematics and remains a feat that no scientist in any field has been able to duplicate. When he died, Nature remarked that the

Author: S. R. S. Varadhan
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: notes, lecture, courant, processes, stochastic
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2007-10-25
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0821840851
ISBN-13: 9780821840856

This is a brief introduction to stochastic processes studying certain elementary continuous-time processes. After a description of the Poisson process and related processes with independent increments as well as a brief look at Markov processes with a finite number of jumps, the author proceeds to introduce Brownian motion and to develop stochastic integrals and Itô’s theory in the context of one-dimensional diffusion processes. The book ends with a brief survey of the general theory of Markov processes. The book is based on courses given by the author at the Courant Institute and

Author: S. R. S. Varadhan
Publisher: Courant Institute of Mathemetical Sciences
Keywords: notes, lecture, courant, theory, probability
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2001-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821828525
ISBN-13: 9780821828526

S. R. S. Varadhan is recognized as a top expert in probability theory. This volume presents topics in probability theory covered during a first-year graduate course given by Varadhan at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The necessary background material in measure theory is developed, including the standard topics, such as extension theorem, construction of measures, integration, product spaces, Radon-Nikodym theorem, and conditional expectation. In the first part of the book, characteristic functions are introduced, followed by the study of weak convergence of probability dis

Author: Richard Courant
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: volume, vol, calculus, integral, differential
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 1988-02
List price: $164.00
ISBN-10: 0471608424
ISBN-13: 9780471608424

Author: Peter D. Lax
Publisher: American Mathematical Society/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Keywords: lecture, notes, courant, equations, partial, differential, hyperbolic
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2006-12-12
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0821835769
ISBN-13: 9780821835760

The theory of hyperbolic equations is a large subject, and its applications are many: fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, the theory of elasticity, optics, electromagnetic waves, direct and inverse scattering, and the general theory of relativity. This book is an introduction to most facets of the theory and is an ideal text for a second-year graduate course on the subject. The first part deals with the basic theory: the relation of hyperbolicity to the finite propagation of signals, the concept and role of characteristic surfaces and rays, energy, and energy inequalities. The structure of sol