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'One Man and His God' describes the activities of a Liverpool
Pastor who, in addition to running a church, reached out to violent
Teddy Boys, delinquent girls and faced atheists and agnostics at
Liverpool's Speakers Corner at the Pier Head. Exposing his faith to
the questions and ridicule of unbelievers not only won converts,
but caused him to re-examine his own beliefs and discard some of
them. His own pilgrimage of faith continued as he helped to lead a
joint Christian Aid/Army mercy dash across the Sahara where
thousands were dying through drought and disease. I found it
impossible, Richard writes, to tell a starving mother holding a
dying baby that God loved her. Visiting India he witnessed
remarkable development projects run by evangelicals, Hindus and
Muslims. In the West Bank and Gaza he sympathised with the Israelis
and agonised with the Palestinians. These visits helped to prune
and re-shape his faith. The total inspiration of the Bible, the
exclusiveness of the Evangelical Gospel and the Doctrine of
everlasting punishment were all examined and laid aside as he moved
forward in his quest to follow Christ. Illustrations and anecdotes
abound in this book which is written to make you think and perhaps
raise a smile. The authors sense of humour is evident as he
describes his preachments and magic shows that served to spread the
Gospel. Richard believes in the dynamic power of the 'whole Gospel'
and feels he has found a no-nonsense faith that equips one for life
today.
This book covers the basic theory of matrices and vector spaces.
The book's three main parts cover (I) matrices, vector spaces,
bases, and dimension; (II) inner products, bilinear and
sesquilinear forms over vector spaces; (III) linear
transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, and
Jordan normal form. An introduction to fields and polynomials over
fields is also provided, and examples and applications are provided
throughout. The approach throughout is rigorous, but without being
unnecessarily abstract. In particular, this book would be suitable
reading for a student with no prior exposure to abstract algebra.
Although intended as a 'second course', the book is completely
self-contained and all the material usually given in a 'first
course' in presented fully in Part I, so the book provides a useful
guide to the entire theory of vector spaces as usually studied in
an undergraduate degree. Abstract methods are illustrated with
concrete examples throughout, and more detailed examples highlight
applications of linear algebra to analysis, geometry, differential
equations, relativity and quantum mechanics. As such, the book
provides a valuable introduction to a wide variety of mathematical
methods.
This book is a collection of articles, some introductory, some
extended surveys, and some containing previously unpublished
research, on a range of topics linking infinite permutation group
theory and model theory. Topics covered include: oligomorphic
permutation groups and omega-categorical structures; totally
categorical structures and covers; automorphism groups of
recursively saturated structures; Jordan groups; Hrushovski's
constructions of pseudoplanes; permutation groups of finite Morley
rank; applications of permutation group theory to models of set
theory without the axiom of choice. There are introductory chapters
by the editors on general model theory and permutation theory,
recursively saturated structures, and on groups of finite Morley
rank. The book is almost self-contained, and should be useful to
both a beginning postgraduate student meeting the subject for the
first time, and to an active researcher from either of the two main
fields looking for an overview of the subject.
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