The theories of quadratic forms and their applications appear in many parts of mathematics and the sciences. All students of mathematics have the opportunity to encounter such concepts and applications in their first course in linear algebra. This subject and its extensions to infinite dimen- sions comprise the theory of the numerical range W(T). There are two competing names for W(T), namely, the numerical range of T and the field of values for T. The former has been favored historically by the func- tional analysis community, the latter by the matrix analysis community. It is a toss-up to...

This book, developed from the author's series of lectures delivered in Japan in 1995, identifies and describes current results and issues in certain areas of computational fluid dynamics, mathematical physics and linear algebra.

This volume grew from a Special Session in } thematical Physics organized as a part of the 774th Heeting of the American } thematical Society in Boulder, Colorado, 27-29 l rch, 1980. The organizers attempted to include a mix of mathematicians, physi cists and chemists. As interest in the session increased and as it became clear that a significant number of leading contributors would be here, we were offered the opportunity to have these pro ceedings published by Plenum Press. We would like first to express our thanks to Plenum Press, to the American Hathematical Society, and to the University...