Essays in Mathematics and its Applications - In Honor of Stephen Smales 80th Birthday (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)

The volume is dedicated to Stephen Smale on the occasion of his 80th birthday.Besides his startling 1960 result of the proof of the Poincare conjecture for all dimensionsgreater than or equal to five, Smale's ground breaking contributions invarious fields in Mathematics have marked the second part of the 20th century andbeyond. Stephen Smale has done pioneering work in differential topology, globalanalysis, dynamical systems, nonlinear functional analysis, numerical analysis, theoryof computation and machine learning as well as applications in the physical andbiological sciences and economics. In sum, Stephen Smale has manifestly brokenthe barriers among the different fields of mathematics and dispelled some remainingprejudices. He is indeed a universal mathematician. Smale has been honoredwith several prizes and honorary degrees including, among others, the Fields Medal(1966), The Veblen Prize (1966), the National Medal of Science (1996) and theWolfPrize (2006/2007)."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Panos M. Pardalos • Themistocles M. Rassias
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	504
Edition:	2012 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-28820-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Operational research Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Optimization > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General
LSN:	3-642-28820-0
Barcode:	9783642288203

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