Traditional numerical analysis books concentrate either on the mathematical or programming aspects of numerical algorithms. This textbook is different inasmuch as it emphasizes the relevance of these techniques to the real world and the use of a widely available library of numerical software in their application. The book consists of 22 carefully graded projects which will lead the reader through the techniques typically taught as part of a first course in numerical analysis. Throughout the reader is presented with projects which reflect very real problems that occur in science and industry....

Although Nearrings arise naturally in various ways, most nearrings studied today arise as the endomorphisms of a group or cogroup object of a category. During the first half of the twentieth century, nearfields were formalized using applications to sharply transitive groups and to foundations of geometry. This book details the theoretical implications of how planar nearrings grew out of the geometric success of the planar nearfields and have found numerous applications to various branches of mathematics as well as to coding theory, cryptography, and the design of statistical families of...

This volume presents the Oxford Mathematical Institute notes for the enormously successful advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate student course on groups and geometry. The book's content closely follows the Oxford syllabus but covers a great deal more material than did the course itself. The book is divided into two parts: the first covers the fundamentals of groups, and the second covers geometry and its symbiotic relationship with groups. Both parts contain a number of useful examples and exercises. This book will be welcomed by student and teacher alike as a lucidly written text...

This accessible introduction to the mathematics of rings and fields shows how algebraic techniques can be used to solve many difficult problems. The book is carefully organized. Prerequisite mathematical skills are introduced at the beginning, and each chapter opens with an introduction to a problem followed by the development of the algebraic techniques necessary for its solution, using concrete mathematical and non-mathematical examples. Although prior knowledge of group theory is not required, a chapter is included which states the axiom for a group and proves the group theoretic results...

This superb survey of the study of mathematical structures details how both model theoretic methods and permutation theoretic methods are useful in describing such structures. In addition, the book provides an introduction to current research concerning the connections between model theory and permutation group theory. Comprised of a collection of articles--some introductory, some more in-depth, and some containing previously unpublished research--the book will prove invaluable to graduate students meeting the subject for the first time as well as to active researchers studying mathematical...

Diagram geometry, which introduces a range of techniques that enable an interaction between group theory and geometry, allows the mathematician to get information on a multi-dimensional geometric object from some knowledge of bi-dimensional properties. This exceptional introduction to the subject provides a wealth of descriptions and examples, explains basic concepts, and details the language of diagram geometrics. It provides an expert development of diagram geometry theory as well as more advanced concepts and techniques. Practical and rigorous, Diagram Geometries is the ideal introduction...

This text provides an up-to-date account of Banach and locally convex algebras with a particular emphasis on general theory, representations, and homology. In his descriptions and examples of general theory, the author remains aware of traditional trends in the field analysis while breaking from convention in his approach to "the algebra of analysis" through homological algebra. Such an approach allows Helemskii to consider topics not covered at this level in any other book, including complemented and uncomplemented ideals, projective and weak tensor products of banach algebras, Taylor's...

The p-adic numbers and more generally local fields have become increasingly important in a wide range of mathematical disciplines. They are now seen as essential tools in many areas, including number theory, algebraic geometry, group representation theory, the modern theory of automorphic forms, and algebraic topology. A number of texts have recently become available which provide good general introductions to p-adic numbers and p-adic analysis. However, there is at present a gap between such books and the sophisticated applications in the research literature. The aim of this book is to...

This volume brings together leading mathematicians and engineers to review recent advances in mathematical and computational fluid techniques for modelling fluid flows. Four key topics are treated in detail: implicit methods in CFD, mesh generation and error analysis, numerical boundary conditions, and multigrid and alternative methods for hyperbolic systems. This up-to-date survey will appeal to students and researchers alike.

In 1902 William Burnside wrote "A still undecided point in the theory of discontinuous groups is whether the order of a group may not be finite while the order of every operation it contains is finite." Since then, the Burnside problem has inspired a considerable amount of research. This popular text provides a comprehensive account of the many recent results obtained in studies of the restricted Burnside problem by making extensive use of Lie ring techniques that provide for a uniform treatment of the field. The updated and revised second edition includes a new chapter on Zelmanov's highly...