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Symbolic Immortality

The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

By: Sergei Kan

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Symbolic Immortality

The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

By: Sergei Kan

Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska—or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.éex’) as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.

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Symbolic Immortality

The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century

By: Sergei Kan

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The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century

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Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska--or any other indigenous culture of the Northwest Coast. This updated and expanded edition furthers our understanding of the potlatch (koo.�ex') as a total social phenomenon, with emotional and religious as well as economic and sociopolitical dimensions. The result is a major contribution to both Northwest Coast ethnology and theoretical literature on the anthropology of death.

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Memory Eternal

Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

By: Sergei Kan

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Memory Eternal

Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

By: Sergei Kan

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations. By weighing the one body of evidence against the other, he has reevaluated this history, arriving at a persuasive new concept of “converged agendas”—the view that the Tlingit and the Russians tended to act in mutually beneficial ways but for entirely different reasons throughout the period of their contact with one another. The Russian-American Company began operations in southeastern Alaska in the 1790s. Against a description of Tlingit culture at the time of the Russians’ arrival, Kan examines Russian Orthodox theology, ritual practice, and missionary methods, and the Tlingit response to them. An uneasy symbiosis characterized the early era of the Russian-American Company, when the trading relationship outweighed any spiritual or social rapprochement. A second, major focus of Kan’s study is the Tlingit experience with American colonial domination. He attributes a sudden revival of Tlingit interest in Orthodoxy in the 1880s as their attempt to maintain independence in the face of concerted efforts by the newcomers (and especially Presbyterian missionaries) to Americanize them. Memory Eternal shows the colonial encounter to be both a power struggle and a dialogue between different systems of meaning. It portrays Native Alaskans not as helpless victims but as historical agents who attempted to adjust to the changing reality of their social world without abandoning fundamental principles of their precolonial sociocultural order or their strong sense of self-respect.

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A Maverick Boasian

The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser

By: Sergei Kan

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A Maverick Boasian

The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser

By: Sergei Kan

A Maverick Boasian explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880-1940), a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas's most brilliant and most favored student. The story of his life and scholarship is complex and exciting as well as frustrating. Although Goldenweiser came to the United States from Russia as a young man, he spent the next forty years thinking of himself as a European intellectual who never felt entirely at home. A talented ethnographer, he developed excellent rapport with his Native American consultants but cut short his fieldwork due to lack of funds. An individualist and an anarchist in politics, he deeply resented having to compromise any of his ideas and freedoms for the sake of professional success. A charming man, he risked his career and family life to satisfy immediate needs and wants. A number of his books and papers on the relationship between anthropology and other social sciences helped foster an important interdisciplinary conversation that continued for decades after his death. For the first time, Sergei Kan brings together and examines all of Goldenweiser's published scholarly works, archival records, personal correspondences, nonacademic publications, and living memories from several of Goldenweiser's descendants. Goldenweiser attracted attention for his unique progressive views on such issues as race, antisemitism, immigration, education, pacifism, gender, and individual rights. His was a major voice in a chorus of progressive Boasians who applied the insights of their discipline to a variety of questions on the American public's mind. Many of the battles he fought are still with us today.

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Symbolic Immortality

The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

By: Sergei Kan

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The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition

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Memory Eternal

Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

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Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries

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Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR

People's Diplomacy in the Cold War

By: Sergei I. Zhuk

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Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR

People's Diplomacy in the Cold War

By: Sergei I. Zhuk

This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.

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Methods of Homological Algebra

By: Sergei I. Gelfand,Yuri I. Manin

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Methods of Homological Algebra

By: Sergei I. Gelfand,Yuri I. Manin

This modern approach to homological algebra by two leading writers in the field is based on the systematic use of the language and ideas of derived categories and derived functors. It describes relations with standard cohomology theory and provides complete proofs. Coverage also presents basic concepts and results of homotopical algebra. This second edition contains numerous corrections.

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Soviet Americana

The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists

By: Sergei Zhuk

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Soviet Americana

The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists

By: Sergei Zhuk

The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.

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1786723034

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High Speed Diode Lasers

By: Sergei A. Gurevich

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High Speed Diode Lasers

By: Sergei A. Gurevich

This book is composed of seven invited papers which present the current status of high speed diode lasers. Fast carrier and photon dynamics in directly modulated MQW lasers is analyzed and novel design approaches are considered which were critical for the demonstration and record of 40 GHz modulation bandwidth. Attention is centered on the challenges in creation of high speed and low chirp single mode DFB lasers. Recent progress in mode-locked diode lasers is covered, specifically by the examples of 160 fs pulse generation and appearance of microwave pulse repetition rates. Future trends in increasing of high speed laser performance are also examined.

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World Scientific

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9810232373

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Lev Shternberg

Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist

By: Sergei Kan

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Lev Shternberg

Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist

By: Sergei Kan

This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861 1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country s peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethnographic research in northeastern Siberia, was one of the anthropologists who directed this survey and consequently played a major role in influencing the professionalization of anthropology in the Soviet Union. But Shternberg was much more than a government anthropologist. Under the new regime he continued his work as the senior curator of the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, which began in the early 1900s. In the last decade of his life Shternberg also played a leading role in establishing a new Soviet school of cultural anthropology and in training a cohort of professional anthropologists. True to the ideals of his youth, he also continued an active involvement in the intellectual life of the Jewish community, even though the new regime was making it increasingly difficult. This in-depth biography explores the scholarly and political aspects of Shternberg s life and how they influenced each other. It also places his career in both national and international perspectives, showing the context in which he lived and worked and revealing the important developments in Russian anthropology during these tumultuous years.

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0803224702

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Scanning Probe Microscopy

Electrical and Electromechanical Phenomena at the Nanoscale

By: Sergei V. Kalinin,Alexei Gruverman

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Scanning Probe Microscopy

Electrical and Electromechanical Phenomena at the Nanoscale

By: Sergei V. Kalinin,Alexei Gruverman

This volume will be devoted to the technical aspects of electrical and electromechanical SPM probes and SPM imaging on the limits of resolution, thus providing technical introduction into the field. This volume will also address the fundamental physical phenomena underpinning the imaging mechanism of SPMs.

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0387286683

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Differentiable Functions On Bad Domains

By: Vladimir G Maz'ya,Sergei Poborchi

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Differentiable Functions On Bad Domains

By: Vladimir G Maz'ya,Sergei Poborchi

The spaces of functions with derivatives in Lp, called the Sobolev spaces, play an important role in modern analysis. During the last decades, these spaces have been intensively studied and by now many problems associated with them have been solved. However, the theory of these function classes for domains with nonsmooth boundaries is still in an unsatisfactory state.In this book, which partially fills this gap, certain aspects of the theory of Sobolev spaces for domains with singularities are studied. We mainly focus on the so-called imbedding theorems, extension theorems and trace theorems that have numerous applications to partial differential equations. Some of such applications are given.Much attention is also paid to counter examples showing, in particular, the difference between Sobolev spaces of the first and higher orders. A considerable part of the monograph is devoted to Sobolev classes for parameter dependent domains and domains with cusps, which are the simplest non-Lipschitz domains frequently used in applications.This book will be interesting not only to specialists in analysis but also to postgraduate students.

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9814498564

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Real Analysis: Foundations

By: Sergei Ovchinnikov

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Real Analysis: Foundations

By: Sergei Ovchinnikov

This textbook explores the foundations of real analysis using the framework of general ordered fields, demonstrating the multifaceted nature of the area. Focusing on the logical structure of real analysis, the definitions and interrelations between core concepts are illustrated with the use of numerous examples and counterexamples. Readers will learn of the equivalence between various theorems and the completeness property of the underlying ordered field. These equivalences emphasize the fundamental role of real numbers in analysis. Comprising six chapters, the book opens with a rigorous presentation of the theories of rational and real numbers in the framework of ordered fields. This is followed by an accessible exploration of standard topics of elementary real analysis, including continuous functions, differentiation, integration, and infinite series. Readers will find this text conveniently self-contained, with three appendices included after the main text, covering an overview of natural numbers and integers, Dedekind's construction of real numbers, historical notes, and selected topics in algebra. Real Analysis: Foundations is ideal for students at the upper-undergraduate or beginning graduate level who are interested in the logical underpinnings of real analysis. With over 130 exercises, it is suitable for a one-semester course on elementary real analysis, as well as independent study.

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3030647013

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Number Systems

By: Sergei Ovchinnikov

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Number Systems

By: Sergei Ovchinnikov

This book offers a rigorous and coherent introduction to the five basic number systems of mathematics, namely natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers. It is a subject that many mathematicians believe should be learned by any student of mathematics including future teachers. The book starts with the development of Peano arithmetic in the first chapter which includes mathematical induction and elements of recursion theory. It proceeds to an examination of integers that also covers rings and ordered integral domains. The presentation of rational numbers includes material on ordered fields and convergence of sequences in these fields. Cauchy and Dedekind completeness properties of the field of real numbers are established, together with some properties of real continuous functions. An elementary proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra is the highest point of the chapter on complex numbers. The great merit of the book lies in its extensive list of exercises following each chapter. These exercises are designed to assist the instructor and to enhance the learning experience of the students.

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Lev Shternberg

Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist

By: Sergei Kan

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Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist

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Jost Functions in Quantum Mechanics

A Unified Approach to Scattering, Bound, and Resonant State Problems

By: Sergei A. Rakityansky

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Jost Functions in Quantum Mechanics

A Unified Approach to Scattering, Bound, and Resonant State Problems

By: Sergei A. Rakityansky

Based on Jost function theory this book presents an approach useful for different types of quantum mechanical problems. These include the description of scattering, bound, and resonant states, in a unified way. The reader finds here all that is known about Jost functions as well as what is needed to fill the gap between the pure mathematical theory and numerical calculations. Some of the topics covered are: quantum resonances, Regge poles, multichannel scattering, Coulomb interaction, Riemann surfaces, multichannel analog of the effective range theory, one- and two-dimensional problems, many-body problems within the hyperspherical approach, just to mention few of them. These topics are relevant in the fields of quantum few-body theory, nuclear reactions, atomic collisions, and low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures. In light of this, the book is meant for students, who study quantum mechanics, scattering theory, or nuclear reactions at the advanced level as well as for post-graduate students and researchers in the fields of nuclear and atomic physics. Many of the arguments that are traditional for textbooks on quantum mechanics and scattering theory, are covered here in a different way, using the Jost functions. This gives the reader a new insight into the subject, revealing new features of various mathematical objects and quantum phenomena.

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Quantum Non-linear Sigma-Models

From Quantum Field Theory to Supersymmetry, Conformal Field Theory, Black Holes and Strings

By: Sergei V. Ketov

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Quantum Non-linear Sigma-Models

From Quantum Field Theory to Supersymmetry, Conformal Field Theory, Black Holes and Strings

By: Sergei V. Ketov

This is the first comprehensive presentation of the quantum non-linear sigma-models. The original papers consider in detail geometrical properties and renormalization of a generic non-linear sigma-model, illustrated by explicit multi-loop calculations in perturbation theory.

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3662041928

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Crossings Problems in Random Processes Theory and Their Applications in Aviation

By: Sergei L. Semakov

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Crossings Problems in Random Processes Theory and Their Applications in Aviation

By: Sergei L. Semakov

The behavior of any real system is a process to a greater or lesser degree probabilistic. As a rule, it is impossible to specify exactly which external influences and internal mechanisms of interaction of the system components will be decisive in the future. As a consequence, we cannot accurately predict the behavior of the system. We can only talk about the probability that, in the future, the system will come to a particular state. While the problem of the probabilistic description of all possible future states of the system is very difficult to answer, it is often enough, for research purposes, to obtain answers to questions that are more simple, for example, “For how long will, on average, the system operate in a given mode?” or “What is the probability that the process of functioning of the system will come out of given mode to a specific point in time?” Problems of this type concern the crossings of a level by a random process. This book states some of the most important fundamental results related to crossings problems. The known problem of first reaching boundaries by a random process is discussed in detail. It explores the solution of this problem for arbitrary continuous processes, and also considers the application of obtained mathematical results to the investigation of the safety of an airplane landing. The book will appeal to engineers and scientists who are interested in the applications of random processes theory and its methods. Its results will also be of interest for mathematicians who study crossings problems.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527530450

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Droplets and Sprays: Simple Models of Complex Processes

By: Sergei S. Sazhin

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Droplets and Sprays: Simple Models of Complex Processes

By: Sergei S. Sazhin

This book acts as a guide to simple models that describe some of the complex fluid dynamics, heat/mass transfer and combustion processes in droplets and sprays. Attention is focused mainly on the use of classical hydrodynamics, and a combination of kinetic and hydrodynamic models, to analyse the heating and evaporation of mono- and multi-component droplets. The models were developed for cases when small and large numbers of components are present in droplets. Some of these models are used for the prediction of time to puffing/micro-explosion of composite water/fuel droplets — processes that are widely used in combustion devices to stimulate disintegration of relatively large droplets into smaller ones. The predictions of numerical codes based on these models are validated against experimental results where possible. In most of the models, droplets are assumed to be spherical; some preliminary results of the generalisation of these models to the case of non-spherical droplets, approximating them as spheroids, are presented.

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3030997464

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Transmutations, Singular and Fractional Differential Equations with Applications to Mathematical Physics

By: Elina Shishkina,Sergei Sitnik

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Transmutations, Singular and Fractional Differential Equations with Applications to Mathematical Physics

By: Elina Shishkina,Sergei Sitnik

Transmutations, Singular and Fractional Differential Equations with Applications to Mathematical Physics connects difficult problems with similar more simple ones. The book's strategy works for differential and integral equations and systems and for many theoretical and applied problems in mathematics, mathematical physics, probability and statistics, applied computer science and numerical methods. In addition to being exposed to recent advances, readers learn to use transmutation methods not only as practical tools, but also as vehicles that deliver theoretical insights. - Presents the universal transmutation method as the most powerful for solving many problems in mathematics, mathematical physics, probability and statistics, applied computer science and numerical methods - Combines mathematical rigor with an illuminating exposition full of historical notes and fascinating details - Enables researchers, lecturers and students to find material under the single "roof

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Academic Press

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0128204079

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Shadowing in Dynamical Systems

By: Sergei Yu. Pilyugin

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Shadowing in Dynamical Systems

By: Sergei Yu. Pilyugin

This book is an introduction to the theory of shadowing of approximate trajectories in dynamical systems by exact ones. This is the first book completely devoted to the theory of shadowing. It shows the importance of shadowing theory for both the qualitative theory of dynamical systems and the theory of numerical methods. Shadowing Methods allow us to estimate differences between exact and approximate solutions on infinite time intervals and to understand the influence of error terms. The book is intended for specialists in dynamical systems, for researchers and graduate students in the theory of numerical methods.

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3540484299

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The Uncensored Boris Godunov

The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy

By: Chester Dunning,Caryl Emerson,Sergei Fomichev,Lidiia Lotman

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The Uncensored Boris Godunov

The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy

By: Chester Dunning,Caryl Emerson,Sergei Fomichev,Lidiia Lotman

Includes the original Russian text and, for the first time, an English translation of that version. “Antony Wood’s translation is fluent and idiomatic; analyses by Dunning et al. are incisive; and the ‘case’ they make is skillfully argued. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice

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0299207633

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Spectral Properties of Banded Toeplitz Matrices

By: Albrecht Boettcher,Sergei M. Grudsky

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Spectral Properties of Banded Toeplitz Matrices

By: Albrecht Boettcher,Sergei M. Grudsky

This self-contained introduction to the behavior of several spectral characteristics of large Toeplitz band matrices is the first systematic presentation of a relatively large body of knowledge. Covering everything from classic results to the most recent developments, Spectral Properties of Banded Toeplitz Matrices is an important resource. The spectral characteristics include determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, pseudospectra and pseudomodes, singular values, norms, and condition numbers. Toeplitz matrices emerge in many applications and the literature on them is immense. They remain an active field of research with many facets, and the material on banded ones until now has primarily been found in research papers.

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SIAM

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089871785X

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Nonlinearly Perturbed Semi-Markov Processes

By: Dmitrii Silvestrov,Sergei Silvestrov

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Nonlinearly Perturbed Semi-Markov Processes

By: Dmitrii Silvestrov,Sergei Silvestrov

The book presents new methods of asymptotic analysis for nonlinearly perturbed semi-Markov processes with a finite phase space. These methods are based on special time-space screening procedures for sequential phase space reduction of semi-Markov processes combined with the systematical use of operational calculus for Laurent asymptotic expansions. Effective recurrent algorithms are composed for getting asymptotic expansions, without and with explicit upper bounds for remainders, for power moments of hitting times, stationary and conditional quasi-stationary distributions for nonlinearly perturbed semi-Markov processes. These results are illustrated by asymptotic expansions for birth-death-type semi-Markov processes, which play an important role in various applications. The book will be a useful contribution to the continuing intensive studies in the area. It is an essential reference for theoretical and applied researchers in the field of stochastic processes and their applications that will contribute to continuing extensive studies in the area and remain relevant for years to come.

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3319609882

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Inverse Problems for Maxwell's Equations

By: V. Vladimir Gavrilovich Romanov,Sergei Igorevich Kabanikhin

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Inverse Problems for Maxwell's Equations

By: V. Vladimir Gavrilovich Romanov,Sergei Igorevich Kabanikhin

The book offers a simultaneous presentation of the theory and numerical treatment of inverse problems for Maxwell's equations. The inverse problems are central to many areas of science and technology such as geophysical exploration, remote sensing, near-surface radar-location, dielectric logging, medical imaging, etc. The basic idea. of inverse methods is to extract from the evaluation of measured electromagnetic field the details of the medium considered. The inverse problems are investigated not only for Maxwell's equations but also for their guasistationary approximation and in the case of harmonic dependence in time. Starting with the simplest one-dimensional inverse problems, the book leads its readers to more complicated multidimensional ones studied for media of various kinds. The unique solvability of a number of the considered problems is shown as well as the stability of their solutions. The numerical analysis ranges from the finite-difference scheme inversion to the linearization method and finally the dynamic variant of the Gel'fand-Levitan method. Computational results are presented. The book is intended to provide graduate students in applied mathematics and geophysics, as well as the researches in the field, with an understanding of inverse problem theory. Although the main part of the book is rather theoretical in nature, it is also of practical value to experimentalists and engineers.

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9067641723

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Mathematics of Two-Dimensional Turbulence

By: Sergei Kuksin,Armen Shirikyan

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Mathematics of Two-Dimensional Turbulence

By: Sergei Kuksin,Armen Shirikyan

This book is dedicated to the mathematical study of two-dimensional statistical hydrodynamics and turbulence, described by the 2D Navier–Stokes system with a random force. The authors' main goal is to justify the statistical properties of a fluid's velocity field u(t,x) that physicists assume in their work. They rigorously prove that u(t,x) converges, as time grows, to a statistical equilibrium, independent of initial data. They use this to study ergodic properties of u(t,x) – proving, in particular, that observables f(u(t,.)) satisfy the strong law of large numbers and central limit theorem. They also discuss the inviscid limit when viscosity goes to zero, normalising the force so that the energy of solutions stays constant, while their Reynolds numbers grow to infinity. They show that then the statistical equilibria converge to invariant measures of the 2D Euler equation and study these measures. The methods apply to other nonlinear PDEs perturbed by random forces.

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113957695X

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Zeta Regularization Techniques With Applications

By: Andrei A Bytsenko,Emilio Elizalde,Sergei D Odintsov,August Romeo,Sergio Zerbini

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Zeta Regularization Techniques With Applications

By: Andrei A Bytsenko,Emilio Elizalde,Sergei D Odintsov,August Romeo,Sergio Zerbini

This book is the result of several years of work by the authors on different aspects of zeta functions and related topics. The aim is twofold. On one hand, a considerable number of useful formulas, essential for dealing with the different aspects of zeta-function regularization (analytic continuation, asymptotic expansions), many of which appear here, in book format, for the first time are presented. On the other hand, the authors show explicitly how to make use of such formulas and techniques in practical applications to physical problems of very different nature. Virtually all types of zeta functions are dealt with in the book.

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World Scientific

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9814502987

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9789814502986

A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country

Vincent Soboleff in Alaska

By: Sergei Kan

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A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country

Vincent Soboleff in Alaska

By: Sergei Kan

This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans, so-called Creoles, who worked in a local fertilizer factory. Using a Kodak camera, Soboleff, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, documented the life of this multiethnic parish at work and at play until 1920. Despite their significance, few of Soboleff’s photographs have been published since their discovery in 1950. Anthropologist Sergei Kan rectifies that oversight in A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, which brings together more than 100 of Soboleff’s striking black-and-white images. Combining Soboleff’s photographs with ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Kan brings to life the communities of Killisnoo, where Soboleff grew up, and Angoon, the Tlingit village. The photographs gathered here depict Russian Creoles, Euro-Americans, the operation of the Killisnoo factory, and the daily life of its workers. But Soboleff’s work is especially valuable as a record of Tlingit life. As a member of this multiethnic community, he was able to take unusually personal photographs of people and daily life. Soboleff’s photographs offer candid and intimate glimpses into Tlingit people’s then-new economic pursuits such as commercial fishing, selling berries, and making “Indian curios” to sell to tourists. Other images show white, Creole, and Native factory workers rubbing shoulders while keeping a certain distance during leisure time. Kan offers readers, historians, and photography lovers a beautiful visual resource on Tlingit and Russian American life that shows how the two cultures intertwined in southeastern Alaska at the turn of the past century.

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285

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806189290

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9780806189291

The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions

By: Mark A. Lewis,Sergei V. Petrovskii,Jonathan R. Potts

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The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions

By: Mark A. Lewis,Sergei V. Petrovskii,Jonathan R. Potts

This book investigates the mathematical analysis of biological invasions. Unlike purely qualitative treatments of ecology, it draws on mathematical theory and methods, equipping the reader with sharp tools and rigorous methodology. Subjects include invasion dynamics, species interactions, population spread, long-distance dispersal, stochastic effects, risk analysis, and optimal responses to invaders. While based on the theory of dynamical systems, including partial differential equations and integrodifference equations, the book also draws on information theory, machine learning, Monte Carlo methods, optimal control, statistics, and stochastic processes. Applications to real biological invasions are included throughout. Ultimately, the book imparts a powerful principle: that by bringing ecology and mathematics together, researchers can uncover new understanding of, and effective response strategies to, biological invasions. It is suitable for graduate students and established researchers in mathematical ecology.

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373

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Springer

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3319320432

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A Maverick Boasian

The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser

By: Sergei Kan

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A Maverick Boasian

The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser

By: Sergei Kan

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496234413

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9781496234414

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