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Topological and Algebraic Structures in Fuzzy Sets: A Handbook of Recent Developments in the Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets (Trends in Logic #20)

This volume summarizes recent developments in the topological and algebraic structures in fuzzy sets and may be rightly viewed as a continuation of the stan­ dardization of the mathematics of fuzzy sets established in the "Handbook", namely the Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets: Logic, Topology, and Measure Theory, Volume 3 of The Handbooks of Fuzzy Sets Series (Kluwer Academic Publish­ ers, 1999). Many of the topological chapters of the present work are not only based upon the foundations and notation for topology laid down in the Hand­ book, but also upon Handbook developments in convergence, uniform spaces, compactness, separation axioms, and canonical examples; and thus this work is, with respect to topology, a continuation of the standardization of the Hand­ book. At the same time, this work significantly complements the Handbook in regard to algebraic structures. Thus the present volume is an extension of the content and role of the Handbook as a reference work. On the other hand, this volume, even as the Handbook, is a culmination of mathematical developments motivated by the renowned International Sem­ inar on Fuzzy Set Theory, also known as the Linz Seminar, held annually in Linz, Austria. Much of the material of this volume is related to the Twenti­ eth Seminar held in February 1999, material for which the Seminar played a crucial and stimulating role, especially in providing feedback, connections, and the necessary screening of ideas.

Topological Analysis

Topological analysis consists of those basic theorems of analysis which are essentially topological in character, developed and proved entirely by topological and pseudotopological methods. The objective of this volume is the promotion, encouragement, and stimulation of the interaction between topology and analysis-to the benefit of both.Originally published in 1964.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Topologia differenziale: Lectures given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Urbino (Pesaro), Italy, July 2-12, 1962 (C.I.M.E. Summer Schools #26)

J. Cerf: Invariants des paires d´espaces. Applications à la topologie differentielle.- A. Häfliger: Variétés feuilletées.- M.A. Kervaire: La méthode de Pontryagin pour la classification des applications sur une sphère.- S. Smale: Stable manifolds for differential equations and diffeomorphisms.

Topologia: Lectures given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Varenna (Como), Italy, August 26-September 3, 1955 (C.I.M.E. Summer Schools #6)

Lectures: K. Kuratowski: Théorie de la dimension.- G. Scorza Dragoni: Traslazioni piane generalizzate.- E. Sperner: 1. Generalizzazioni del teorema di Brouwer sul punto unito. 2. Il problema dei colori sulle superificie chiuse.- Seminars: G. Darbo: Grado topologico e punti uniti in trasformazioni plurivalenti.- M. Dolcher: Alcuni risultati della geometria delle trasformazioni continue.- M. Vaccaro: Sulle rappresentazioni localmente biunivoche delle varietà topologiche sopra i poliedri.

Topologia (UNITEXT #78)

Nato dall'esperienza dell'autore nell'insegnamento della topologia agli studenti del corso di Laurea in Matematica, questo libro contiene le nozioni fondamentali di topologia generale ed una introduzione alla topologia algebrica. La scelta degli argomenti, il loro ordine di presentazione e, soprattutto, il tipo di esposizione tiene conto delle tendenze attuali nell'insegnamento della topologia e delle novita nella struttura dei corsi di Laurea scientifici conseguenti all'introduzione del sistema 3+2. Questa seconda edizione, oltre a semplificare alcune dimostrazioni, presenta una sostanziale riscrittura della parte sui rivestimenti e l'aggiunta di ulteriori esempi; il numero complessivo di esercizi proposti stato portato a 500 ed il numero di quelli svolti a 120.

Topologia (UNITEXT)

Nato dall’esperienza dell’autore nell’insegnamento della topologia agli studenti del corso di Laurea in Matematica, questo libro contiene le nozioni fondamentali di topologia generale ed una introduzione alla topologia algebrica. La scelta degli argomenti, il loro ordine di presentazione e, soprattutto, il tipo di esposizione tiene conto delle tendenze attuali nell’insegnamento della topologia e delle novita’ nella struttura dei corsi di Laurea scientifici conseguenti all’introduzione del sistema 3+2. Il libro contiene circa 400 esercizi, in parte risolti.

TOPO 72 - General Topology and its Applications: Second Pittsburgh International Conference, December 18-22, 1972 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #378)

Sponsored by Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh

Topics Surrounding the Combinatorial Anabelian Geometry of Hyperbolic Curves II: Tripods and Combinatorial Cuspidalization (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #2299)

The present monograph further develops the study, via the techniques of combinatorial anabelian geometry, of the profinite fundamental groups of configuration spaces associated to hyperbolic curves over algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero.The starting point of the theory of the present monograph is a combinatorial anabelian result which allows one to reduce issues concerning the anabelian geometry of configuration spaces to issues concerning the anabelian geometry of hyperbolic curves, as well as to give purely group-theoretic characterizations of the cuspidal inertia subgroups of one-dimensional subquotients of the profinite fundamental group of a configuration space.We then turn to the study of tripod synchronization, i.e., of the phenomenon that an outer automorphism of the profinite fundamental group of a log configuration space associated to a stable log curve induces the same outer automorphism on certain subquotients of such a fundamental group determined by tripods [i.e., copies of the projective line minus three points]. The theory of tripod synchronization shows that such outer automorphisms exhibit somewhat different behavior from the behavior that occurs in the case of discrete fundamental groups and, moreover, may be applied to obtain various strong results concerning profinite Dehn multi-twists.In the final portion of the monograph, we develop a theory of localizability, on the dual graph of a stable log curve, for the condition that an outer automorphism of the profinite fundamental group of the stable log curve lift to an outer automorphism of the profinite fundamental group of a corresponding log configuration space. This localizability is combined with the theory of tripod synchronization to construct a purely combinatorial analogue of the natural outer surjection from the étale fundamental group of the moduli stack of hyperbolic curves over the field of rational numbers to the absolute Galois group of the field of rational numbers.

Topics on Real and Complex Singularities: An Introduction (Advanced Lectures in Mathematics)

Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics)

This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena. Major topics covered in this volume include, but are not limited to, bayesian inference, likelihood approach, pseudo-likelihoods, regression, time series, and data analysis as well as applications in the life and social sciences.The software packages used in the papers are made available by the authors.This book is a result of the 47th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, held at the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2014.

Topics on Continua

This book is a significant companion text to the existing literature on continuum theory. It opens with background information of continuum theory, so often missing from the preceding publications, and then explores the following topics: inverse limits, the Jones set function T, homogenous continua, and n-fold hyperspaces. In this new edition of the book, the author builds on the aforementioned topics, including the unprecedented presentation of n-fold hyperspace suspensions and induced maps on n-fold hyperspaces. The first edition of the book has had a remarkable impact on the continuum theory community. After twelve years, this updated version will also prove to be an excellent resource within the field of topology.

Topics on Concentration Phenomena and Problems with Multiple Scales (Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana #2)

The study of variational problems showing multi-scale behaviour with oscillation or concentration phenomena is a challenging topic of very active research. This volume collects lecture notes on the asymptotic analysis of such problems when multi-scale behaviour derives from scale separation in the passage from atomistic systems to continuous functionals, from competition between bulk and surface energies, from various types of homogenization processes, and on concentration effects in Ginzburg-Landau energies and in subcritical growth problems.

Topics in Universal Algebra (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #250)

Topics in Uniform Approximation of Continuous Functions (Frontiers in Mathematics)

This book presents the evolution of uniform approximations of continuous functions. Starting from the simple case of a real continuous function defined on a closed real interval, i.e., the Weierstrass approximation theorems, it proceeds up to the abstract case of approximation theorems in a locally convex lattice of (M) type. The most important generalizations of Weierstrass’ theorems obtained by Korovkin, Bohman, Stone, Bishop, and Von Neumann are also included.In turn, the book presents the approximation of continuous functions defined on a locally compact space (the functions from a weighted space) and that of continuous differentiable functions defined on ¡n. In closing, it highlights selected approximation theorems in locally convex lattices of (M) type.The book is intended for advanced and graduate students of mathematics, and can also serve as a resource for researchers in the field of the theory of functions.

Topics in Transcendental Algebraic Geometry. (AM-106), Volume 106

The description for this book, Topics in Transcendental Algebraic Geometry. (AM-106), Volume 106, will be forthcoming.

Topics in Topology. (AM-10), Volume 10

Solomon Lefschetz pioneered the field of topology--the study of the properties of many�sided figures and their ability to deform, twist, and stretch without changing their shape. According to Lefschetz, "If it's just turning the crank, it's algebra, but if it's got an idea in it, it's topology." The very word topology comes from the title of an earlier Lefschetz monograph published in 1920. In Topics in Topology Lefschetz developed a more in-depth introduction to the field, providing authoritative explanations of what would today be considered the basic tools of algebraic topology. Lefschetz moved to the United States from France in 1905 at the age of twenty-one to find employment opportunities not available to him as a Jew in France. He worked at Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh and there suffered a horrible laboratory accident, losing both hands and forearms. He continued to work for Westinghouse, teaching mathematics, and went on to earn a Ph.D. and to pursue an academic career in mathematics. When he joined the mathematics faculty at Princeton University, he became one of its first Jewish faculty members in any discipline. He was immensely popular, and his memory continues to elicit admiring anecdotes. Editor of Princeton University Press's Annals of Mathematics from 1928 to 1958, Lefschetz built it into a world-class scholarly journal. He published another book, Lectures on Differential Equations, with Princeton in 1946.

Topics in Topology (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #1652)

The book describes some interactions of topology with other areas of mathematics and it requires only basic background. The first chapter deals with the topology of pointwise convergence and proves results of Bourgain, Fremlin, Talagrand and Rosenthal on compact sets of Baire class-1 functions. In the second chapter some topological dynamics of beta-N and its applications to combinatorial number theory are presented. The third chapter gives a proof of the Ivanovskii-Kuzminov-Vilenkin theorem that compact groups are dyadic. The last chapter presents Marjanovic's classification of hyperspaces of compact metric zerodimensional spaces.

Topics in Time Delay Systems: Analysis, Algorithms and Control (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences #388)

Time delays are present in many physical processes due to the period of time it takes for the events to occur. Delays are particularly more pronounced in networks of interconnected systems, such as supply chains and systems controlled over c- munication networks. In these control problems, taking the delays into account is particularly important for performance evaluation and control system’s design. It has been shown, indeed, that delays in a controlled system (for instance, a c- munication delay for data acquisition) may have an “ambiguous” nature: they may stabilize the system, or, in the contrary,they may lead to deteriorationof the clos- loop performance or even instability, depending on the delay value and the system parameters. It is a fact that delays have stabilizing effects, but this is clearly con i- ing for human intuition. Therefore,speci c analysis techniquesand design methods are to be developed to satisfactorily take into account the presence of delays at the design stage of the control system. The research on time delay systems stretches back to 1960s and it has been very active during the last twenty years. During this period, the results have been presented at the main control conferences(CDC, ACC, IFAC), in specialized wo- shops (IFAC TDS series), and published in the leading journals of control engine- ing, systems and control theory, applied and numerical mathematics.

Topics in Theoretical Computer Science: Third IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference, TTCS 2020, Tehran, Iran, July 1–2, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12281)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science, TTCS 2020, held in Tehran, Iran, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 8 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They focus on novel and high-quality research in all areas of theoretical computer science, such as algorithms and complexity; logic, semantics, and programming theory; and more.

Topics in Theoretical Computer Science: The First IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference, TTCS 2015, Tehran, Iran, August 26-28, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9541)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science, held in Tehran, Iran, in August 2015. The 10 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers feature novel and high-quality research in all areas of theoretical computer science.

Topics in Theoretical Computer Science: Second IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference, TTCS 2017, Tehran, Iran, September 12-14, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10608)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science, TTCS 2017, held in Tehran, Iran, in September 2017. The 8 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: algorithms and complexity; and logic, semantics, and programming theory.

Topics in Theoretical and Experimental Gravitation Physics (NATO Science Series B: #27)

Topics in Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience: From Controlling Light at the Nanoscale to Calculating Quantum Effects with Classical Electrodynamics (Springer Theses)

Interest in structures with nanometer-length features has significantly increased as experimental techniques for their fabrication have become possible. The study of phenomena in this area is termed nanoscience, and is a research focus of chemists, pure and applied physics, electrical engineers, and others. The reason for such a focus is the wide range of novel effects that exist at this scale, both of fundamental and practical interest, which often arise from the interaction between metallic nanostructures and light, and range from large electromagnetic field enhancements to extraordinary optical transmission of light through arrays of subwavelength holes.This dissertation is aimed at addressing some of the most fundamental and outstanding questions in nanoscience from a theoretical and computational perspective, specifically: · At the single nanoparticle level, how well do experimental and classical electrodynamics agree?· What is the detailed relationship between optical response and nanoparticle morphology, composition, and environment?· Does an optimal nanostructure exist for generating large electromagnetic field enhancements, and is there a fundamental limit to this? · Can nanostructures be used to control light, such as confining it, or causing fundamentally different scattering phenomena to interact, such as electromagnetic surface modes and diffraction effects?· Is it possible to calculate quantum effects using classical electrodynamics, and if so, how do they affect optical properties?

Topics in Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics #0)

This book highlights the latest research findings from the 46th International Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) in Rome, during which both methodological and applied statistical research was discussed. This selection of fully peer-reviewed papers, originally presented at the meeting, addresses a broad range of topics, including the theory of statistical inference; data mining and multivariate statistical analysis; survey methodologies; analysis of social, demographic and health data; and economic statistics and econometrics.

Topics in the Theory of Riemann Surfaces (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #1595)

The book's main concern is automorphisms of Riemann surfaces, giving a foundational treatment from the point of view of Galois coverings, and treating the problem of the largest automorphism group for a Riemann surface of a given genus. In addition, the extent to which fixed points of automorphisms are generalized Weierstrass points is considered. The extremely useful inequality of Castelnuovo- Severi is also treated. While the methods are elementary, much of the material does not appear in the current texts on Riemann surfaces, algebraic curves. The book is accessible to a reader who has had an introductory course on the theory of Riemann surfaces or algebraic curves.