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This book covers the following topics: Mathematical Philosophy; Mathematical Logic; the Structure of Number Sets and the Theory of Real Numbers, Arithmetic and Axiomatic Number Theory, and Algebra (including the study of Sequences and Series); Matrices and Applications in Input-Output Analysis and Linear Programming; Probability and Statistics; Classical Euclidean Geometry, Analytic Geometry, and Trigonometry; Vectors, Vector Spaces, Normed Vector Spaces, and Metric Spaces; basic principles of non-Euclidean Geometries and Metric Geometry; Infinitesimal Calculus and basic Topology (Functions, Limits, Continuity, Topological Structures, Homeomorphisms, Differentiation, and Integration, including Multivariable Calculus and Vector Calculus); Complex Numbers and Complex Analysis; basic principles of Ordinary Differential Equations; as well as mathematical methods and mathematical modeling in the natural sciences (including physics, engineering, biology, and neuroscience) and in the social sciences (including economics, management, strategic studies, and warfare problems).
Mediterranean inhabitants depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Livestock production and forestry are key sources of income yet are carried out under harsh conditions such as limited land resources, marginal agricultural conditions, isolation, and scant equipment and infrastructure. Livestock is of particular importance in mountain production systems as they convert plant biomass into useful products for humans such as milk, meat and draught power. These products are key to the regions' sustainability. The main topics discussed in this book are: Human geography of Mediterranean mountain territories. Livestock production and natural resources. Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountain areas. Applications of new technologies for environmentally sound management of livestock and natural resources. The role livestock plays in rural development and in safeguarding natural resources.
The book presents an overview of the main hazards affecting karst, including collapse and subsidence phenomena, hydrological hazards and human-induced geohazards. Consideration is also given to the problems of geohazard management in karst. The geological and hydrological properties of karst terrains make them among the most fragile in the world and pose serious problems for land managers. Sustainable development in these terrains requires efforts to limit geohazards of anthropogenic origin and to recognize and mitigate against those of natural origin. Aimed at providing the reader with worldwide case studies, the contributions cover a range of geological and morphological settings. Geographically, the fourteen papers discuss very different karst areas, from North America, the Caribbean and Asia to several karst areas in Europe, including the British Isles, Spain, France and Italy.
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents or...
As Albert Einstein lay on his death bed he asked for his glasses, his writing implements and his latest equations. He knew he was dying, yet he continued to work. In those final hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness, he was working on what he hoped would be the greatest work of all. It was a project of monumental complexity. It was a project that he hoped would unlock the mind of God.