This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Finsler geometry in the language of present-day mathematics. Through Finsler geometry, it also introduces the reader to other structures and techniques of differential geometry. Prerequisites for reading the book are minimal: undergraduate linear algebra (over the reals) and analysis. The necessary concepts and tools of advanced linear algebra (over modules), point set topology, multivariable calculus and the rudiments of the theory of differential equations are integrated in the text. Basic manifold and bundle theories are treated concisely, carefully and (apart from proofs) in a self-contained manner. The backbone of the book is the detailed and original exposition of tangent bundle geometry, Ehresmann connections and sprays. It turns out that these structures are important not only in their own right and in the foundation of Finsler geometry, but they can be also regarded as the cornerstones of the huge edifice of Differential Geometry. The authors emphasize the conceptual aspects, but carefully elaborate calculative aspects as well (tensor derivations, graded derivations and covariant derivatives). Although they give preference to index-free methods, they also apply the techniques of traditional tensor calculus. Most proofs are elaborated in detail, which makes the book suitable for self-study. Nevertheless, the authors provide for more advanced readers as well by supplying them with adequate material, and the book may also serve as a reference.

Computer simulation has become a basic tool in many branches of physics such as statistical physics, particle physics, or materials science. The application of efficient algorithms is at least as important as good hardware in large-scale computation. This volume contains didactic lectures on such techniques based on physical insight. The emphasis is on Monte Carlo methods (introduction, cluster algorithms, reweighting and multihistogram techniques, umbrella sampling), efficient data analysis and optimization methods, but aspects of supercomputing, the solution of stochastic differential equations, and molecular dynamics are also discussed. The book addresses graduate students and researchers in theoretical and computational physics.

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn't particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, "You are no Jew." In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kertesz's unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses-or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness" "is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.

'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' Observer Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business - his final act before being sent to a labour camp. Two months later, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'. This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz. On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, and is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of the barbarity - and beauty - he witnesses.

'A fine and powerful piece of work... Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times "No!" is the first word of this haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child, and it is how he answered his wife years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between these two 'No!'s give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertesz's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he takes readers on a mesmerising, lyrical journey through his life, from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.

Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle Epoque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "Carmen industry." Authors Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz challenge the notion of Carmen as an unchanging exotic construct, tracing the ways in which performers and productions responded to evolving fashions for Spanish style from its 1875 premiere to 1915. Focusing on selected realizations of the opera in Paris, London and New York, Christoforidis and Kertesz explore the cycles of influence between the opera and its parodies; adaptations in spoken drama, ballet and film; and the panorama of flamenco, Spanish dance, and musical entertainments. Their findings also uncover Carmen's dynamic interaction with issues of Hispanic identity against the backdrop of Spain's changing international fortunes. The Spanish response to this now most-Spanish of operas is illuminated by its early reception in Madrid and Barcelona, adaptations to local theatrical genres, and impact on Spanish composers of the time. A series of Spanish Carmens, from opera singers Elena Sanz and Maria Gay to the infamous music-hall star La Belle Otero, had a crucial influence on the interpretation of the title role. Their stories provide a fresh context for the book's reappraisal of leading Carmens of the era, including Emma Calve and Geraldine Farrar.

'Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide... A compelling if deeply unsettling work' Independent Kingbitter, an editor at a failing publishing house, believes himself to have been the closest friend of B., a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers B. has left him, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that uncannily predicts the behaviour of B.'s ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself. As he obsessively reads and rereads the play, Kingbitter becomes transfixed with the idea that buried within these papers is B.'s great novel: the book that will explain his relationship with Auschwitz.

'A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power' Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens turns his story to his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile Salinas family, and with it peers into the murderous mechanics of a regime bent on achieving its ends - no matter the means.

Das vorliegende Buch ist aus einer sechzehnstiindigen Vorlesung hervorgegangen, die ich im Jahre 1971 am Mathematischen Institut der Universitat zu Jyvaskyla in Finnland gehalten habe. Mit diesem Buch wende ich mich an Studenten der Mathematik, die eine gewisse Fertigkeit und Sicherheit in der Anwendung transfiniter Methoden auf die Untersuchung unendlicher algebraischer Strukturen erwerben mochten. Ich war bestrebt, aus zumeist klassischem Material eine geeignete und abwechslungsreiche Auswahl zu treffen. Obwohl diese Schrift yom Inhalt her dem Spezialisten kaum etwas Neues zu bieten hat, diirfte sie in methodischer Hinsicht an einigen Stellen mehr oder weniger neue Gesichtspunkte enthalten. Die Lektiire dieses Buches erfordert keine besonderen mathemati- schen Vorkenntnisse, doch setzt sie eine gewisse Vertrautheit mit der abstrakten Algebra und der Mengenlehre sowie vielleicht ein wenig Routine im mathematischen Denken voraus, iiber die aber ein Student in hoheren Semestern verfiigt. Die im Rahmen dieses Buches nicht defi- nierten Begriffe kann der Leser in jedem ausfiihrlicheren Lehrbuch der Algebra und der Mengenlehre, z. B. in dem von REDEl [1]1 und HALMOS [1], finden. Das Literaturverzeichnis am Ende dieses Buches solI bei einem vertiefteren Studium helfen. Mein aufrichtiger Dank gilt den Herren Prof. Dr. G. FODOR und Dr. G. POLLAK, die das Manuskript dieses Buches sorgfaltig durchgelesen und mir durch kritische Bemerkungen geholfen haben. Mein besonderer Dank gilt meinem Freund, Herrn Dr. CARL-GuNTER D'AMBLY, der den Text des Manuskriptes kritisch gepriift und mich in Fragen des deutschen Stils beraten hat.

Bei der Bearbeitung des vorliegenden Materials ging Verfasser von der Ansicht aus, dass zur Forderung einer Industrie vor allem eine moglichst klare Ubersicht uber ihren allgemeinen Stand er forderlich ist und diese am besten durch Benutzung und Prufung der vorhandenen statistischen Daten erhalten wird. Von diesen hat die Textilindustrie bisher kaum genugenden Gebrauch machen konnen, weil ihr hierzu die entsprechenden Behelfe fehlten. Die Ausarbeitung musste sich dementsprechend in erster Reihe auf die einheitliche Gruppierung der statistischen Unterlagen Deutschlands und der anderen Lander -- soweit diese zuganglich waren - erstrecken. Verfasser ist sich wohl bewusst, dass das Buchelchen auf V 0- standigkeit keinen Anspruch erheben kann. Es soll die erste Grundlage fur die statistische Ubersicht uber die Textilindustrie Deutschlands im Vergleich zu der der anderen Lander bieten. Die erforderlichen Erganzungen werden dann spater leicht folgen konnen. Mainkur bei Frankfurt a. M., September 1915. Der Verfasser. Inhaltsverzeichnis. Allgemeiner Teil. Seite Arbeiterzahl in den Betrieben der Hauptindustrien . . . . . . 2 Beteiligung der Textilindustrie an der Ein- und Ausfuhr. . . Die finanziellen Ergebnisse der Hauptindustrien Deutschlands 2 Die deutsche Textilindustrie auf dem Weltmarkt. . . . . . . 3 6 Die Neuerungen Deutschlands auf dem Gebiete der Textilindustrie 6 Bleichen und Farben in mechanischen Apparaten Das Merzerisieren der Baumwolle 7 Die Herstellung der Kunstseide 8 Textilose (als J ute-Ersatzstoff) . 9 Stranfafaser (als Jute-Ersatzstoff) 10 Stickautomaten . . . . . . . . 11 12 Die Forderung der Textilindustrie Deutschlands Spezieller Teil. Die Textilindustrie der verschiedenen Staaten. A. Die Baumwollindustrie."

Contributing Authors Include Jerome G. Kerwin, Guy B. Johnson, Don K. Price, And Others.