Ernst Specker has made decisive contributions towards shaping direc tions in topology, algebra, mathematical logic, combinatorics and algorith mic over the last 40 years. We have derived great pleasure from marking his seventieth birthday by editing the majority of his scientific publications, and thus making his work available in a unified form to the mathematical community. In order to convey an idea of the richness of his personality, we have also included one of his sermons. Of course, the publication of these Selecta can pay tribute only to the writings of Ernst Specker. It cannot adequately express his originality and wisdom as a person nor the fascination he exercises over his students, colleagues and friends. We can do no better than to quote from Hao Wang in the 'Festschrift' Logic and Algorithmic I: Specker was ill for an extended period before completing his formal education. He had the leisure to think over many things. This experi ence may have helped cultivating his superiority as a person. In terms of traditional Chinese categories, I would say there is a taoist trait in him in the sense of being more detached, less competitive, and more under standing. I believe he has a better sense of what is important in life and arranges his life better than most logicians. We are grateful to Birkhauser Verlag for the production of this Selecta volume. Our special thanks go to Jonas Meon for sharing with us his intimate knowledge of his friend Ernst Specker.
Ernst Specker has made decisive contributions towards shaping direc tions in topology, algebra, mathematical logic, combinatorics and algorith mic over the last 40 years. We have derived great pleasure from marking his seventieth birthday by editing the majority of his scientific publications, and thus making his work available in a unified form to the mathematical community. In order to convey an idea of the richness of his personality, we have also included one of his sermons. Of course, the publication of these Selecta can pay tribute only to the writings of Ernst Specker. It cannot adequately express his originality and wisdom as a person nor the fascination he exercises over his students, colleagues and friends. We can do no better than to quote from Hao Wang in the 'Festschrift' Logic and Algorithmic I: Specker was ill for an extended period before completing his formal education. He had the leisure to think over many things. This experi ence may have helped cultivating his superiority as a person. In terms of traditional Chinese categories, I would say there is a taoist trait in him in the sense of being more detached, less competitive, and more under standing. I believe he has a better sense of what is important in life and arranges his life better than most logicians. We are grateful to Birkhauser Verlag for the production of this Selecta volume. Our special thanks go to Jonas Meon for sharing with us his intimate knowledge of his friend Ernst Specker.
The idea behind this book is to provide the mathematical foundations for assessing modern developments in the Information Age. It deepens and complements the basic concepts, but it also considers instructive and more advanced topics. The treatise starts with a general chapter on algebraic structures; this part provides all the necessary knowledge for the rest of the book. The next chapter gives a concise overview of cryptography. Chapter 3 on number theoretic algorithms is important for developping cryptosystems, Chapter 4 presents the deterministic primality test of Agrawal, Kayal, and Saxena. The account to elliptic curves again focuses on cryptographic applications and algorithms. With combinatorics on words and automata theory, the reader is introduced to two areas of theoretical computer science where semigroups play a fundamental role.The last chapter is devoted to combinatorial group theory and its connections to automata. Contents: Algebraic structures Cryptography Number theoretic algorithms Polynomial time primality test Elliptic curves Combinatorics on words Automata Discrete infinite groups
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2005, held in Stuttgart, Germany in February 2005. The 54 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 217 submissions. A broad variety of topics from theoretical computer science are addressed, in particular complexity theory, algorithmics, computational discrete mathematics, automata theory, combinatorial optimization and approximation, networking and graph theory, computational geometry, grammar systems and formal languages, etc.
A MULTI-FACETED, HIERARCHIC ANALYSIS OF CHEMICAL MICRO PROCESS TECHNOLOGY Micro Reactor Differentiation and Process Intensification Consequences of Chemical Micro Processing Physical and Chemical Implications Impact on Chemical Engineering Impact on Process Engineering Impact on Process Results Impact on Society and Ecology Impact on Economy Application Fields and Markets of Micro Reactors MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF MICRO REACTORS Flow Phenomena on the Microscale Methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics Flow Distributions Heat Transfer Mass Transfer and Mixing Reaction Kinetics and Modelling Free Surface Flow Flow in Porous Media GAS-PHASE REACTIONS Catalyst Coatings in Micro Channels Micro Reactors for Gas-Phase Reactions Oxidations Hydrogenations Dehydrogenations Substitutions Eliminations Additions and Coupling Reactions LIQUID- AND LIQUID/LIQUID-PHASE REACTIONS Micro Reactors for Liquid-Phase and Liquid/Liquid-Phase Recations Aliphatic Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Substitution such as Esterification, Acylation of Amines, Thiocyanation, and much more Aromatic Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution such as Nitrations, Amino-de-halogenations, Diazo Chemistry, and much more Metal-catalysed Aromatic Substitution such as Suzuki and Sonogashira Couplings, and more Free Radical Substitution such as Alkane Nitration Addition to Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-hetero Multiple Bonds such as the Michael Addition, the Diels-Alder-Reaction, the Aldol Reaction, and much more Oxidations and Reductions Eliminations and Rearrangements Inorganic Reactions such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii-Reaction, Complex Formations, and much more GAS/LIQUID CONTACTING Micro Reactors for Gas/Liquid Contacting Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution such as Direct Fluorinations Free Radical Substitution such as Alkane Fluorinations and Chlorinations Addition to Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-hetero Multiple Bonds such as Nitro-group Hydrogenation, Cycloalkane Hydrogenation, and more Oxidations and Reductions such as Alcohol Oxidation, Photo Diels-Alder Reactions, and more Inorganic Reactions such as Sulfite Oxidation.
Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. This includes a final chapter, written for this latest edition, on the consequences of the reunification of Germany in 1990. Thoroughly interdiscipinary in method, the work also reflects recent developments in literary criticism and history. Highly readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature succeeds in making the literature of the past as immediate and engaging as the works of the present. It is both a scholary study and an invaluable reference work for students.
A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent “Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored major world power, and now perfectly positioned to realize his lifelong ambition: to help the German people flourish and to exterminate those who stood in the way. Beginning a war allowed Hitler to take his ideological obsessions to unthinkable extremes, including the mass genocide of millions, which was conducted not only with the aid of the SS, but with the full knowledge of German leadership. Yet despite a series of stunning initial triumphs, Hitler’s fateful decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies. Now, Volker Ullrich, author of Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939, offers fascinating new insight into Hitler’s character and personality. He vividly portrays the insecurity, obsession with minutiae, and narcissistic penchant for gambling that led Hitler to overrule his subordinates and then blame them for his failures. When he ultimately realized the war was not winnable, Hitler embarked on the annihilation of Germany itself in order to punish the people who he believed had failed to hand him victory. A masterful and riveting account of a spectacular downfall, Ullrich’s rendering of Hitler’s final years is an essential addition to our understanding of the dictator and the course of the Second World War.
Norman Foster, one of the most consistent advocates of architecture based on modern technology, achieved a world-wide reputation with the headquarters for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong, Stansted Airport in London, Century Tower in Tokyo and his telecommunications tower in Barcelona. His most important projects in Germany are the conversion of the Reichstag building in Berlin and the new Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
Text in English and German. The oeuvre of Stefan Wewerka occupies a unique position in post-war art because of the way in which he mixes different genres. Wewerka is an 'uomo universale', an uncomfortable pedagogue, a bringer of enlightenment. In addition to his practical work as an architect -- his competition entries have had a lasting effect on architectural discourse -- he has alienated architecture photographically or with the aid of traditional artistic techniques, has written books, has painted pictures, has made films and object art. In the early 50s Wewerka involved himself in earth architecture -- early attempts to build with nature and not against it -- and this at a time when no one was talking about ecology or even green building. Wewerka became known to a wider public in the 60s by the artistic allenation of chairs and other everyday objects, which he sawed up or distorted in order to undermine familiar images subversively. He also did not leave architectural 'high culture' untouched. Triumphal arches like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or Gothic cathedrals heel over or buckle to form surreal structures and thus make their ideological claims questionable. In the late 70s Wewerka also started to design furniture which had high utility value despite its free form and which emanate an almost Bauhaus-like dignity. All this furniture, like the Fan Desk, the three-legged chair or the One-Swinger, and also his Kitchen Tree and the programmatic Cella furniture system stand like sculptures in the space and always derive a new and surprising variant from subjects and genres that seemed to be closed. The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was vice director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt for over 10 years. For some time now he has been building up a new design department in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Like Volker Fischer, architectural historian Andrea Gleiniger worked for many years in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt; she now teaches at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karisruhe. Her principal working fields are the history of housing estates in the 20th century and the relationship between architecture, art and the new media.
Diese Memoiren wurden kurz nach Kriegsende im DP-Lager Stuttgart-Degerloch auf Jiddisch verfasst und wurden von Volker Mall aus dem Englischen und Jiddischen übersetzt. Das Besondere an diesen Memoiren ist einmal der relativ frühe Zeitpunkt ihrer Entstehung, zum anderen enthalten sie bisher unbekannte Informationen über das KZ Außenlager Hailfingen/Tailfingen..
The writings of Volker Gerhardt have had substantial influence on recent Nietzsche research. This volume collects a variety of his influential essays and makes them available to scholars and causal readers alike. The present collection takes stock of Nietzsche's most prominent ideas. Gerhardt investigates which of these ideas still offer solutions for the problems of today. In the process, it becomes clear what sort of inspiration a future-oriented philosophizing can draw from Nietzsche.
Reise in die Seele Kubas! Mehr als nur ein Bildband Geschichten und Momente, fotografisch festgehalten und erzählt Ein Einblick in das wahre Kuba – befreit von Klischees Kuba ist einer der verführerischsten, exotischsten und romantischsten Orte, die ein Fotograf finden kann. Der Fotograf Volker Figueredo-Veliz hat sich ganz diesem Land verschrieben. Er lebte in Havanna und erkundete die Stadt mit seiner Kamera, und zwar jeden Tag, für Wochen, für Monate. Auf der Suche nach wahrhaftigen Bildern, nach dem anderen, dem geheimnisvollen Kuba – auf der Suche nach der Seele Kubas. Er erlebte jeden Tag als eine Sequenz von Geschichten, die sich vor seinen Augen entwickelten. Kleine unbedeutende Geschichten, Alltagsszenen, stille, poetische Momente genauso wie unerwartete, schräge und schrille. "Los Cubanos" ist eine Aneinanderreihung solcher Geschichten. Es sind Augenblicke, Bilder, mit denen er im Bruchteil einer Sekunde eine Geschichte eingefroren hat, und die er mit diesem Buch wieder zum Leben erwecken möchte. Es sind aber auch Wegpunkte seiner Reise in die Seele Kubas. Volker Figueredo-Veliz lädt Sie ein, ihn auf diesem Weg ein Stück zu begleiten. Anekdoten und Reportagetexte sowie eine Einführung von Pulitzer-Preisträger Anthony DePalma liefern Hintergründe zu den Bildstrecken.
Basis of the volume is the Second Law Symposium Göttingen - Kansai on reception and reform in the German and Japanese law, which was held in September 2006 with significant participation of colleagues from the Kansai University, Osaka, and the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge.
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