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By including many examples and computations Professor Magid has written a complete account of the subject that is accessible to a wide audience. Graduate students and professionals who have some knowledge of algebraic groups, Lie groups and Lie algebras will find this a useful and interesting text.

The theory of polycyclic groups is a branch of infinite group theory which has a rather different flavour from the rest of that subject. This book is a comprehensive account of the present state of this theory.

A chain condition is a property, typically involving considerations of cardinality, of the family of open subsets of a topological space.

Since the 1930s ergodic theory has been central to pure mathematics. This introduction provides sections on the classical ergodic theorems, topological dynamics, uniform distribution, Martingales, information theory and entropy. There is a chapter on mixing and one on special examples.

The purpose of this 1982 book is to present an introduction to developments which had taken place in finite group theory related to finite geometries. This book is practically self-contained and readers are assumed to have only an elementary knowledge of linear algebra.

This tract presents an exposition of methods for testing sets of special functions for completeness and basis properties, mostly in L2 and L2 spaces. The emphasis on methods of testing and their applications will also interest scientists and engineers engaged in fields such as the sampling theory of signals in electrical engineering and boundary value problems in mathematical physics.

This work specifically surveys simple Noetherian rings. The authors present theorems on the structure of simple right Noetherian rings and, more generally, on simple rings containing a uniform right ideal U.

In this introduction to the modern theory of ideals, Professor Northcott first discusses the properties of Noetherian rings and the algebraic and analytical theories of local rings. In order to give some idea of deeper applications of this theory the author has woven into the connected algebraic theory those results which play outstanding roles in the geometric applications.

This 1999 book is concerned with Diophantine approximation on smooth manifolds embedded in Euclidean space. In particular, this book deals with Khintchine-type theorems and with the Hausdorff dimension of the associated null sets. All researchers with an interest in Diophantine approximation will welcome this book.

This book treats the very special and fundamental mathematical properties that hold for a family of Gaussian (or normal) random variables. Such random variables have many applications in probability theory, other parts of mathematics, statistics and theoretical physics. The emphasis throughout this book is on the mathematical structures common to all these applications.

In this stimulating book, Peter Elliott demonstrates a method and a motivating philosophy that combine to cohere a large part of analytic number theory. He also illustrates a way of thinking mathematically and shows how to formulate theorems as well as construct their proofs.

This book presents a definitive account of the applications of the algebraic L-theory to the surgery classification of topological manifolds. The central result is the identification of a manifold structure in the homotopy type of a Poincare duality space with a local quadratic structure in the chain homotopy type of the universal cover.

A self-contained introduction to automorphic forms, Eisenstein series and pseudo-series, proving some of Langlands' work at the intersection of number theory and group theory. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in number theory, representation theory, and all whose work involves the Langlands program.

The distribution of the eigenvalues of differential operators has long fascinated mathematicians. Advances have shed light upon classical problems in this area, and this book presents a fresh approach, largely based upon the results of the authors. The treatment is largely self-contained and accessible to non-specialists. Both experts and newcomers alike will welcome this unique exposition.

In recent years there have been new developments in the field of commutative algebra which led to proofs of several conjectures which had been open for many years. Many of these proofs rely on techniques from topology and algebraic geometry. This book describes the mathematical background necessary to prove these results and sets them in their algebraic context.

The book makes the topology of non-compact spaces accessible to both geometric and algebraic topologists, and algebraists. Recent developments are explained, and tools for further research are provided. In short, this book provides a systematic exposition of the theory and practice of ends of manifolds and CW complexes, along with their algebraic analogues for chain complexes.

Bipartite graphs are perhaps the most basic of objects in graph theory, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. However, sometimes they have been considered only as a special class in some wider context. This book deals solely with bipartite graphs. Together with traditional material, the reader will also find many unusual results. Essentially all proofs are given in full; many of these have been streamlined specifically for this text. Numerous exercises of all standards have also been included. The theory is illustrated with many applications especially to problems in timetabling, chemistry, communication networks and computer science. For the most part the material is accessible to any reader with a graduate understanding of mathematics. However, the book contains advanced sections requiring much more specialized knowledge, which will be of interest to specialists in combinatorics and graph theory.

Stochastic approximation is a technique for studying the properties of an experimental situation; it has important applications in fields such as medicine and engineering. Dr Wasan gives a rigorous mathematical treatment of the subject. The discussion and proofs of theorems are easy to follow, while a number of interesting examples show how the techniques may be applied in many fields.

The book provides an introduction to the theory of cluster sets, a branch of topological analysis which has made great strides in recent years. An important and novel feature of the book is the discussion of more general applications to non-analytic functions, including arbitrary functions.

Dr Burkill gives a straightforward introduction to Lebesgue's theory of integration. His approach is the classical one, making use of the concept of measure, and deriving the principal results required for applications of the theory.

Shmuel Weinberger describes here analogies between geometric topology, differential geometry, group theory, global analysis, and noncommutative geometry. He develops deep tools in a setting where they have immediate application. The connections between these fields enrich each and shed light on one another.

In this Tract Professor Moreno develops the theory of algebraic curves over finite fields, their zeta and L-functions, and, for the first time, the theory of algebraic geometric Goppa codes on algebraic curves.

Sporadic Groups provides for the first time a self-contained treatment of the foundations of the theory of sporadic groups accessible to mathematicians with a basic background in finite groups such as in the author's text Finite Group Theory.

This tract develops the purely mathematical side of the theory of probability, without reference to any applications. When originally published it was one of the earliest works in the field and treated the subject as a branch of the theory of completely additive set functions. In this edition the terminology has been modernized and several minor changes have been made.

Written in the wake of the advent of Relativity by an author who made important contributions to projective and differential geometry, and topology, this early Cambridge Tract in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics aimed to assist students of the time from the fields of differential geometry and mathematical physics.

The theory of modular forms and especially the so-called 'Ramanujan Conjectures' have been applied to resolve problems in combinatorics, computer science, analysis and number theory. This tract, based on the Wittemore Lectures given at Yale University, is concerned with describing some of these applications.

This book, first published in 2001, is a detailed exposition, in a single volume, of both the theory and applications of torsors to rational points. It is demonstrated that torsors provide a unified approach to several branches of the theory which were hitherto developing in parallel.

This monograph is concerned with the qualitative theory of best L1-approximation from finite-dimensional subspaces. It presents a survey of recent research that extends 'classical' results concerned with best uniform approximation to the L1 case. The work is organized in such a way as to be useful for self-study or as a text for advanced courses.

Ridge functions are a rich class of simple multivariate functions which have found applications in a variety of areas. These include partial differential equations (where they are sometimes termed 'plane waves'), computerised tomography, projection pursuit in the analysis of large multivariate data sets, the MLP model in neural networks, Waring's problem over linear forms, and approximation theory. Ridge Functions is the first book devoted to studying them as entities in and of themselves. The author describes their central properties and provides a solid theoretical foundation for researchers working in areas such as approximation or data science. He also includes an extensive bibliography and discusses some of the unresolved questions that may set the course for future research in the field.

Poincare duality algebras originated in the work of topologists on the cohomology of closed manifolds, and Macaulay's dual systems in the study of irreducible ideals in polynomial algebras. These two ideas are tied together using basic commutative algebra involving Gorenstein algebras. Steenrod operations also originated in algebraic topology, but may best be viewed as a means of encoding the information often hidden behind the Frobenius map in characteristic p0. They provide a noncommutative tool to study commutative algebras over a Galois field. In this Tract the authors skilfully bring together these ideas and apply them to problems in invariant theory. A number of remarkable and unexpected interdisciplinary connections are revealed that will interest researchers in the areas of commutative algebra, invariant theory or algebraic topology.