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This text features most of the important theorems and algorithms for planar graphs. Suitable as a textbook, it is also useful for researchers and includes an extensive reference section. 1988 edition.
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This detailed view of calculation methods involved in magnetic properties of transition metal complexes starts at an elementary level and proceeds gradually through theory and calculations to offer su
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This graduate-level text explores the relationship between Markov processes and potential theory, in addition to aspects of the theory of additive functionals. Topics include Markov processes, excessi
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This unified treatment of linear and nonlinear filtering theory presents material previously available only in journals, and in terms accessible to engineering students. Its sole prerequisites are adv
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This self-contained text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and may be used either after or concurrently with courses in general topology and algebra. It surveys several alge
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Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text introduces the broad scope of convexity by highlighting diverse applications. Topics include characterizations of convex sets, pol
This text develops the theory of systems of stochastic differential equations and presents applications in probability, partial differential equations, and stochastic control problems. Originally publ
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This concise study of random processes offers graduate students and research physicists a survey encompassing both the relationship of Brownian movement with statistical mechanics and the problem of i
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Geared toward first-year graduate students, this text assumes only an acquaintance with the rudiments of set theory to explore homogeneous universal models, saturated structure, extensions of classica
The most comprehensive text and reference available on the study of random vibrations, this book was designed for graduate students and mechanical, structural, and aerospace engineers. In addition to
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This comprehensive text contains a complete atlas of various kinds of whistlers; the results of satellite observation of whistler-mode propagation; reducing whistler data and obtaining electron densit
Focusing on applications rather than rigorous proofs, this volume is suitable as a text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students concerned with vibration problems. It also serves as a prac
Detailed and self-contained, this text supplements its rigor with intuitive ideas and is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics include principal fiber bundles a
This text presents a consistent description of the geometric and quaternionic treatment of rotation operators. Covers the fundamentals of symmetries, matrices, and groups and presents a primer on rot
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Acclaimed by Einstein himself, this is among the clearest, most readable expositions of relativity theory. It explains the problems Einstein faced, the experiments that led to his theories, and what h
Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this text establishes that projective geometry and linear algebra are essentially identical. The supporting evidence consists of theorem
