This book presents the basic concepts of calculus and its relevance to real-world problems, covering the standard topics in their conventional order. By focusing on applications, it allows readers to view mathematics in a practical and relevant setting. Organized into 12 chapters, this book includes numerous interesting, relevant and up-to date applications that are drawn from the fields of business, economics, social and behavioural sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and other fields of general interest. It also features MATLAB, which is used to solve a number of problems. The book is ideal as a first course in calculus for mathematics and engineering students. It is also useful for students of other sciences who are interested in learning calculus.

This monograph contributes to the mathematical analysis of systems exhibiting hysteresis effects and phase transitions. Its main part begins with a detailed study of models for scalar rate independent hysteresis in the form of hysteresis operators. Applications to ferromagnetism, elastoplasticity and fatigue analysis are presented, and two representative distributed systems with hysteresis operator are discussed. The attention then shifts to the mechanisms of energy dissipation and transformation that induce a hysteretic behavior in continuous media undergoing phase transitions. After an introduction to phenomenological thermodynamic theories of phase transitions, in particular, the Landau-Ginzburg theory and phase field models, several specific models are discussed in detail. These include Falk's model for the hysteresis in shape memory alloys and the phase field models due to Caginalp and Penrose-Fife. The latter are studied both for conserved and non-conserved order parameters. A chapter presenting a mathematical model for the austenite-pearlite and austenite-martensite phase transitions in eutectoid carbon steels concludes the book.

Hysteresis is an exciting and mathematically challenging phenomenon that oc curs in rather different situations: jt, can be a byproduct offundamental physical mechanisms (such as phase transitions) or the consequence of a degradation or imperfection (like the play in a mechanical system), or it is built deliberately into a system in order to monitor its behaviour, as in the case of the heat control via thermostats. The delicate interplay between memory effects and the occurrence of hys teresis loops has the effect that hysteresis is a genuinely nonlinear phenomenon which is usually non-smooth and thus not easy to treat mathematically. Hence it was only in the early seventies that the group of Russian scientists around M. A. Krasnoselskii initiated a systematic mathematical investigation of the phenomenon of hysteresis which culminated in the fundamental monograph Krasnoselskii-Pokrovskii (1983). In the meantime, many mathematicians have contributed to the mathematical theory, and the important monographs of 1. Mayergoyz (1991) and A. Visintin (1994a) have appeared. We came into contact with the notion of hysteresis around the year 1980."

This book presents the basic concepts of calculus and its relevance to real-world problems, covering the standard topics in their conventional order. By focusing on applications, it allows readers to view mathematics in a practical and relevant setting. Organized into 12 chapters, this book includes numerous interesting, relevant and up-to date applications that are drawn from the fields of business, economics, social and behavioural sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and other fields of general interest. It also features MATLAB, which is used to solve a number of problems. The book is ideal as a first course in calculus for mathematics and engineering students. It is also useful for students of other sciences who are interested in learning calculus.

The Lebesgue integral is an essential tool in the fields of analysis and stochastics and for this reason, in many areas where mathematics is applied. This textbook is a concise, lecture-tested introduction to measure and integration theory. It addresses the important topics of this theory and presents additional results which establish connections to other areas of mathematics. The arrangement of the material should allow the adoption of this textbook in differently composed Bachelor programmes.

Dieses vierfarbige Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studierende der Mathematik in Bachelor-Studiengangen. Es bietet in einem Band ein lebendiges Bild der mathematischen Inhalte, die ublicherweise im zweiten und dritten Studienjahr behandelt werden (mit Ausnahme der Algebra). Mathematik-Studierende finden wichtige Begriffe, Satze und Beweise ausfuhrlich und mit vielen Beispielen erklart und werden an grundlegende Konzepte und Methoden herangefuhrt. Im Mittelpunkt stehen das Verstandnis der mathematischen Zusammenhange und des Aufbaus der Theorie sowie die Strukturen und Ideen wichtiger Satze und Beweise. Es wird nicht nur ein in sich geschlossenes Theoriengebaude dargestellt, sondern auch verdeutlicht, wie es entsteht und wozu die Inhalte spater benoetigt werden. Herausragende Merkmale sind: durchgangig vierfarbiges Layout mit mehr als 350 Abbildungen pragnant formulierte Kerngedanken bilden die Abschnittsuberschriften Selbsttests in kurzen Abstanden ermoeglichen Lernkontrollen wahrend des Lesens farbige Merkkasten heben das Wichtigste hervor "Unter-der-Lupe"-Boxen zoomen in Beweise hinein, motivieren und erklaren Details "Hintergrund-und-Ausblick"-Boxen stellen Zusammenhange zu anderen Gebieten und weiterfuhrenden Themen her Zusammenfassungen zu jedem Kapitel sowie UEbersichtsboxen mehr als 500 Verstandnisfragen, Rechenaufgaben und Aufgaben zu Beweisen Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem weiteren Ausbau der Analysis sowie auf den Themen der Vorlesungen Numerik sowie Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statistik. Behandelt werden daruber hinaus Inhalte und Methodenkompetenzen, die vielerorts im zweiten und dritten Studienjahr der Mathematikausbildung vermittelt werden. Auf der Website zum Buch Matheweb finden Sie Hinweise, Loesungswege und Ergebnisse zu allen Aufgaben die Moeglichkeit, zu den Kapiteln Fragen zu stellen Das Buch wird allen Studierenden der Mathematik ein verlasslicher Begleiter sein.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of a mathematical conference on functional analysis and its applications. The conference brought together mathematicians and other scientists from four continents, including the developing countries, in order to gather and disseminate up-to-date research in functional analysis with a spectrum as broad as possible, ranging from topics in classical functional analysis to various areas of numerical and applied mathematics. These topics include: topological vector spaces; Banach algebras; meromorphic functions; partial differential equations; and variational equations and inequalities; optimization; wavelets; elasoplasticity; numerical integration; fractal image compression; reservoir simulation; forest management; and industrial mathematics.