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With breathtaking detail, Maria Georgiadou sheds light on the work and life of Constantin Carathéodory, who until now has been ignored by historians. In her thought-provoking book, Georgiadou maps out the mathematician’s oeuvre, life and turbulent historical surroundings. Descending from the Greek élite of Constantinople, Carathéodory graduated from the military school of Brussels, became engineer at the Assiout dam in Egypt and finally dedicated a lifetime to mathematics and education. He significantly contributed to: calculus of variations, the theory of point set measure, the theory of functions of a real variable, pdes, and complex function theory. An exciting and well-written biography, once started, difficult to put down.
This Dictionary of Weighing Terms is a comprehensive practical guide to the terminology of weighing for all users of weighing instruments in industry and science. It explains more than 1000 terms of weighing technology and related areas; numerous illustrations assist understanding. The Dictionary of Weighing Terms is a joint work of the German Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology (PTB) and METTLER TOLEDO, the weighing instruments manufacturer. Special thanks go to Peter Brandes, Michael Denzel, and Dr. Oliver Mack of PTB, and to Richard Davis of BIPM, who with their technical knowledge have contributed to the success of this work. The Dictionary contains terms from the following fields...
As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.
There has been much recent progress in global optimization algo rithms for nonconvex continuous and discrete problems from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Convex analysis plays a fun damental role in the analysis and development of global optimization algorithms. This is due essentially to the fact that virtually all noncon vex optimization problems can be described using differences of convex functions and differences of convex sets. A conference on Convex Analysis and Global Optimization was held during June 5 -9, 2000 at Pythagorion, Samos, Greece. The conference was honoring the memory of C. Caratheodory (1873-1950) and was en dorsed by the Mathematical Programming Societ...
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: In der modernen Forstwirtschaft wird die Schlägerung und Aufarbeitung von Holz mit Hilfe von Harvestern oder Prozessoren durchgeführt. Es sind dies Baumerntemaschinen, welche die Bäume fällen, entasten und zuschneiden. Das Rohholz soll dabei möglichst genau nach Bestellung des Sägewerkes abgelängt werden. In derzeit eingesetzten Systemen wird die Länge des Stammes über die Umdrehungen eines Zahnrades gemessen, welches während des Vorschubs an die Stammoberfläche gepresst wird. Da dieses System verschiedene Nachteile und Mängel aufweist, besteht der Bedarf an einem bezüglich Genauigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit verbesserten System, welches berührungslos mis...
This book provides a solid and critical historical examination of the endorsement, development and course of Greek nationalism among the lay/clerical leadership of the Greek Orthodox minority of Istanbul during the last phase of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the newly established Republic of Turkey. The focus is on the political role played by the ethnocentric communal elite, who actively championed the Greek nationalist plan of the Megali Idea (Great Idea). Based on a comparative investigation and synthesis of a wide array of Greek and British archival sources the book engages with the various stages of Constantinopolitan Greek elite nationalism in Turkey and ...
Das Wägelexikon ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk der Wägepraxis für alle Nutzer von Waagen in Industrie und Wissenschaft. Es erläutert über 1000 Begriffe aus der Wägetechnik und verwandten Gebieten; zahlreiche Abbildungen tragen zum besseren Verständnis bei. Entstanden ist das Lexikon als Gemeinschaftswerk der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) und des Waagenherstellers METTLER TOLEDO.
Mágoas, ódios e rancores circulam pelos corredores da renomada Universidade de Estrasburgo depois que, após 50 anos sob controle alemão, retorna às mãos da França e recebe o Congresso Internacional de Matemática de 1920. Durante o Congresso, sete matemáticos cometem suicídio em sete dias diferentes, logo após ocultamente estudarem um trabalho matemático surpreendente e misterioso, cuja fonte é desconhecida. Mademoiselle Jeanne-Marie Duchamp, respeitada matemática do campo da Lógica está presente ao Congresso para sua palestra sobre Filosofia da Matemática. O mistério desafia sua inteligência, e usando apenas de sagacidade lógica e da matemática pura, ela concebe uma equação fabulosa – o Teorema de Estrasburgo – que não só revela que tudo é um horrendo crime, como aponta o verdadeiro culpado e suas razões.