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"Et moi, ..., si j'avait su comment en revenir, je One service
mathematics bas rendered the human race. It bas put common sense
back n'y serais point all~.' where it belongs, on the topmost shelf
next to lu1esVeme the dusty canister labelled 'discarded nonsense'~
Eric T. Bell 1be series is divergent; therefore we may be able to
do something with it O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for
thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and
nonlineari- ties abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of
mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sci-
ences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right
above one finds such statements as: 'One ser- vice topology has
rendered mathematical physics ...'; 'One service logic has rendered
computer science ...'; 'One service category theory has rendered
mathematics ...'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable
this way form part of the raison d 'etre of this series.
It appears that we live in an age of disasters: the mighty Missis
sippi and Missouri flood millions of acres, earthquakes hit Tokyo
and California, airplanes crash due to mechanical failure and the
seemingly ever increasing wind speeds make the storms more and more
frightening. While all these may seem to be unexpected phenomena to
the man on the street, they are actually happening according to
well defined rules of science known as extreme value theory. We
know that records must be broken in the future, so if a flood
design is based on the worst case of the past then we are not
really prepared against floods. Materials will fail due to fatigue,
so if the body of an aircraft looks fine to the naked eye, it might
still suddenly fail if the aircraft has been in operation over an
extended period of time. Our theory has by now penetrated the so
cial sciences, the medical profession, economics and even
astronomy. We believe that our field has come of age. In or~er to
fully utilize the great progress in the theory of extremes and its
ever increasing acceptance in practice, an international conference
was organized in which equal weight was given to theory and
practice. This book is Volume I of the Proceedings of this
conference. In selecting the papers for Volume lour guide was to
have authoritative works with a large variety of coverage of both
theory and practice.
It appears that we live in an age of disasters: the mighty Missis
sippi and Missouri flood millions of acres, earthquakes hit Tokyo
and California, airplanes crash due to mechanical failure and the
seemingly ever increasing wind speeds make the storms more and more
frightening. While all these may seem to be unexpected phenomena to
the man on the street, they are actually happening according to
well defined rules of science known as extreme value theory. We
know that records must be broken in the future, so if a flood
design is based on the worst case of the past then we are not
really prepared against floods. Materials will fail due to fatigue,
so if the body of an aircraft looks fine to the naked eye, it might
still suddenly fail if the aircraft has been in operation over an
extended period of time. Our theory has by now penetrated the so
cial sciences, the medical profession, economics and even
astronomy. We believe that our field has come of age. In or er to
fully utilize the great progress in the theory of extremes and its
ever increasing acceptance in practice, an international conference
was organized in which equal weight was given to theory and
practice. This book is Volume I of the Proceedings of this
conference. In selecting the papers for Volume lour guide was to
have authoritative works with a large variety of coverage of both
theory and practice."
"Et moi, ..., si j'avait su comment en revenir, je One service
mathematics bas rendered the human race. It bas put common sense
back n'y serais point all .' where it belongs, on the topmost shelf
next to lu1esVeme the dusty canister labelled 'discarded nonsense'
Eric T. Bell 1be series is divergent; therefore we may be able to
do something with it O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for
thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and
nonlineari ties abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of
mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sci ences.
Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above
one finds such statements as: 'One ser vice topology has rendered
mathematical physics ... '; 'One service logic has rendered
computer science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered
mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable
this way form part of the raison d 'etre of this series."
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