Five Decades As A Mathematician And Educator On The 80th Birthday Of Professor Yung Chow Wong

This volume includes topics such as: invariants of strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds; the integral formulas of the Pontrjagin characteristic forms on an oriented differentiable manifold; the construction of tensor fields and connections on the frame bundle; and cellular manufacturing systems.

Contents:My Early Life, 1913–1948 (Y-C Wong)On the Eigenvalues and Numerical Range of a Quaternionic Matrix (Y-H Au-Yeung)Monopoles as Fibre Bundles and Strings as Infinite Rank Tensors (H-M Chan & S T Tsou)Approximation by Affine Functions (J-T Chan)A Review on Optimal Design for Mixture Models (L-Y Chan)Griffiths' Formalism on the Calculus of Variations via Exterior Differential Systems (W-S Cheung)Change of Measures, Likelihood Ratio Martingales and Some Applications (T L Lai)Beyond the Impossibility of a 16-Square Identity (K Y Lam & P Yiu)Lie Group Homomorphisms which Induce Isomorphisms of Representation Rings (S P Lam)A Lifting Theorem, and Rings with Isomorphic Matrix Rings (T Y Lam)On Ternary Equations in Square-Free and Prime Variables (Y-L Lau, M-C Leung & M-C Liu)Instantons and Three-Manifolds (R Lee)Some Results on the c-Numerical Range (C-K Li & Y-T Poon)A Matrix Formulation of the Complex Flag Manifolds (Q-K Lu)The Integral Formulas of the Pontrjagin Characteristic Forms on an Oriented Differentiable Manifold (X-M Mei)On the Construction of Tensor Fields and Connections on the Frame Bundle (K P Mok)Cellular Manufacturing Systems: Formulation and Algorithmic Issues (S M Ng)Which Inscribed N-Gon in an Ellipse has the Longest Perimeter? (M K Siu & K M Tsang)Hyperbolicity Problems in Function Theory (Y-T Siu)Extreme Positive Operators on Convex Cones (B-S Tam)The Golden Mean and Its Way into Physics (B Y Tong) Readership: Students and scientists in mathematics. keywords:

Expository articles on Several Complex Variables and its interactions with PDEs, algebraic geometry, number theory, and differential geometry, first published in 2000.

This proceedings volume covers the main fields of mathematics: analysis, algebra and number theory, geometry and topology, combinatorics and graphs, applied mathematics, numerical analysis and computer mathematics, probability and statistics, teaching and popularization of mathematics.

A decade after the publication of Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 287, the present volume demonstrates the consolidation of important areas, such as algebraic statistics, computational commutative algebra, and deeper aspects of graphical models. --

The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasil Walter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USA Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Katrin Wendland, University of Freiburg, Germany Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019) Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019) Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019) Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urbański, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021) Ioannis Diamantis, Boštjan Gabrovšek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021)

This is the first edited volume on response surface methodology (RSM). It contains 17 chapters written by leading experts in the field and covers a wide variety of topics ranging from areas in classical RSM to more recent modeling approaches within the framework of RSM, including the use of generalized linear models. Topics covering particular aspects of robust parameter design, response surface optimization, mixture experiments, and a variety of new graphical approaches in RSM are also included. The main purpose of this volume is to provide an overview of the key ideas that have shaped RSM, and to bring attention to recent research directions and developments in RSM, which can have many useful applications in a variety of fields. The volume will be very helpful to researchers as well as practitioners interested in RSM's theory and potential applications. It will be particularly useful to individuals who have used RSM methods in the past, but have not kept up with its recent developments, both in theory and applications.

A unique series of fascinating research papers on subjects related to the work of Niels Henrik Abel, written by some of the foremost specialists in their fields. Some of the authors have been specifically invited to present papers, discussing the influence of Abel in a mathematical-historical context. Others have submitted papers presented at the Abel Bicentennial Conference, Oslo June 3-8, 2002. The idea behind the book has been to produce a text covering a substantial part of the legacy of Abel, as perceived at the beginning of the 21st century.