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In the first BACOMET volume different perspectives on issues concerning teacher education in mathematics were presented (B. Christiansen, A. G. Howson and M. Otte, Perspectives on Mathematics Educatio
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.9 license.It explores the diverse phenomena which are challenging the international law of the sea today, using the unique perspective of a simultaneous ana
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Various types of discrete subgroups of Lie groups arise in the theory of functions of complex variables, arithmetic, geometry, and crystallography. Since the foundation of their general theory in the
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The history of particle physics goes back over one hundred years to J. B. Perrin's discovery in 1895 that cathode rays are a flow of negatively charged particles. Exactly a century later, the field of
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The first volume of a three-volume introduction to modern geometry, with emphasis on applications to other areas of mathematics and theoretical physics. Topics covered include tensors and their differ
Over the past fifteen years, the geometrical and topological methods of the theory of manifolds have as- sumed a central role in the most advanced areas of pure and applied mathematics as well as theo
This book is an investigation of the mathematical and philosophical factors underlying the discovery of the concept of noneuclidean geometries, and the subsequent extension of the concept of space. Ch
The two chapters of this book originally appeared in "Air- Sea Exchange of Gases and Particles", edited by P.S. Liss and W.G.N. Slinn. We wrote them as a general introduction to the physical processes
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