20. Pattern recognition and statistical learning theory (the theory of support vector machines). See 40], 58]. In this last volume we refer in particular to the papers 63] and 64]. Since this topic is maybe less known to the operator theory community we mention that the support vector method is a general approach to function estimation problems. See 63, p. 26]. We note that the above list and the given references are by no way exhaustive. We refer to the first section of the paper of S. Saitoh in the present volume for another (and mainly different) list of topics where reproducing...

This volume is dedicated to Harry Dym, a leading expert in operator theory, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The book opens with an autobiographical sketch, a list of publications and a personal account of I. Gohberg on his collaboration with Harry Dym. The mathematical papers cover Krein space operator theory, Schur analysis and interpolation, several complex variables and Riemann surfaces, matrix theory, system theory, and differential equations and mathematical physics. The book is of interest to a wide audience of pure and applied mathematicians, electrical engineers and...

This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the Conference in Operator The- ory in Honour of Moshe Livsic 80th Birthday, held June 29 to July 4, 1997, at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and at the Weizmann In- stitute of Science (Rehovot, Israel). The volume contains papers in operator theory and its applications (understood in a very wide sense), many of them reflecting, 1 directly or indirectly, a profound impact of the work of Moshe Livsic. Moshe (Mikhail Samuilovich) Livsic was born on July 4, 1917, in the small town of Pokotilova near Uman, in the...