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To celebrate the sixtieth birthdays of Vera T. Sos and Andras Hajnal, the Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society organized a conference and this book. It reflects the broad interests and far-reaching impact of the work of these two mathematicians. The central topic is combinatorics, but papers cover set theory and number theory as well. In order to guarantee the highest possible scientific standard, the following experts were invited to organise sessions: B. Bollobas (extremal graph theory), R.L. Graham (Ramsey theory), E. Milner (set theory), H. Niederreiter (number theory), A. Schrijver (combinatorial optimization), J. Spencer (probabilistic methods in combinatorics) and E. Szemeredi (theory of computing). ... Read more

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Radicals arose originally from structural investigations in rings, but later on they infiltrated into various branches of algebra, as well as into topology and relational structures. This volume is the result of a conference attended by mathematicians from all five continents and thus represents the current state of research in the area. ... Read more

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The Colloquium on Differential Equations and Applications (Budapest, August 21-24, 1991) was organized by the János Bolyai Mathematical Society, the Loránd Eötvös University and the Budapest University of Technology. It was sponsored by the National Committee for Technological Development.

The emphasis was on partial differential equations and their applications. Topics treated in the talks and in this volume range from non-linear elliptic problems to reaction-diffusion systems, from retarded functional differential equations to different problems of bifurcation theory. There were several talks about applications, for instance in beam theory, in biology, in heat transfer problems etc. ... Read more

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Among the many topics covered in this volume are Riemannian geometry, Finsler geometry, the theory of submanifolds and applications of differential geometry in mathematical physics. ... Read more

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This volume is not restricted to papers presented at the 1988 Colloquium, but instead aims to provide the reader with a (relatively) coherent reading on Algebraic Logic, with an emphasis on current research. To help the non-specialist reader, the book contains an introduction to cylindric and relation algebras by Roger D. Maddux and an introduction to Boolean Algebras by Bjarni Jonsson. ... Read more

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The proceedings is obviously essential reading for those in abstract and classical algebraic logic.

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This is an important contribution to the history of mathematics. It makes several corrections and additions to scant amount of biographical information of the mathematician Janos Bolyai available in the English language. However its greatest contribution is to provide new insight into Bolyai's later years which were previously believed to be largely unproductive in terms of mathematics. Kiss has found that Bolyai remained an active researcher until the end of his life, and made original contributions to number theory, algebraic equations, and other subjects, many of which were years ahead of his time (much like Bolyai's work in geometry). In an historical sense I rank this book with Bertand Rusell's tome about Leibniz's philosophy, much of which remained unpublished in Leibniz's lifetime and was only discovered in his voluminous notes after his death. ... Read more

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The immortal Elements of Euclid was already in antiquity a classic, regarded as absolutely perfect, valid without restriction. Elementary geolnmetry was for one thousand years as stationary, as fixed, as peculiarly Greek, as the Parthenon. On this foundation pure science rose in Archimedes, in Apollonius, in Pappus; struggled in Theon, in Hypatia; declined in Proems; fell into the long decadence of the Dark Ages. The book that monkish Europe could no longer understand was then taught in Arabic by Saracen and Moor in the Universities of Bagdad and Cordova. T0 bring the light, after weary, stupid centuries to Western Christendom, an Englishman, Adelhard of Bath, Journeys, to learn Arahic, through Asia NIinor, through Egypt. back to Spain. Disguised as a Mohammedan student, he got into Cordova about 1120, obtained a Moorish copy of Euclid's Elements and made a translation from the Arabic into Latin.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more