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Scattering theory is of interest to physicists and to chemists and
has a wide variety of applications, but it also presents a
considerable challenge to mathematicians, including numerical
analysts. Within the Schroedinger picture in this volume are
collected the various theoretical and mathematical treatments of
scattering together with a host of reviews of its applications to
atomic and nuclear physics, to surface physics and chemistry, for
example trapping of atoms on surfaces, and to amorphous condensed
systems. The reviews give a concise and pedagogically useful
presentation of the state of the art, and may serve as
introductions for newcomers, in particular for graduate students.
CO"i"b.H BaCHJIbeBHa lU>BaJIeBcR8JI (Sonja Kovalevsky) was born
in Moscow in 1850 and died in Stockholm in 1891. Between these
years, in the then changing and turbulent circumstances for Europe,
lies the all too brief life of this remarkable woman. This life was
lived out within the great European centers of power and learning
in Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland, England and Sweden. To
this day, now 150 years after her birth, her influence for and
contribution to mathe matics, science, literature, women's rights
and democratic government are recorded and reviewed, not only in
Europe but now in countries far removed in time and distance from
the lands of her birth and being. This volume, dedicated to her
memory and to her achievements, records the Proceedings of the
Marcus Wallenberg Symposium held, in memory of Sonja Kovalevsky, at
Stockholm University from 18 to 22 June 2000. The symposium was
held at the Department of Mathematics with its excellent library
and lecture halls providing favourable working conditions. Within
these pages are contained a curriculum vitae for Sonja Kovalevsky,
a list of all her scientific publications, together with a copy of
the moving and elegant obituary notice written by her friend and
protector Gosta Mittag-Leffler. These papers are followed by a
leading article entitled Sonja Kovalevsky: Her life and
professorship in Stockholm, written especially for this volume by
Jan-Erik Bjork in preparation for his major address to the
Symposium.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Kovalevsky symposium
held in Stockholm 2000. The first part is devoted to the life of S.
Kovalevsky, the first female professor of mathematics, who
influenced the development of European science during the last
century. Historical notes by G. Mittag-Leffler and copies of
official documents related to her life as well as several articles
on her life and mathematics are presented. The main articles by
J.-E. BjArk describe her life and professorship at Stockholm
University. Part two of the volume contains 23 contributions in
pure and applied mathematics, and in mathematical physics resulting
from the lectures delivered within the program of the symposium.
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