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Product Description: This book presents the fundamental function spaces and their duals, explores operator theory and finally develops the theory of distributions up to significant applications such as Sobolev spaces and Dirichlet problems. Includes an assortment of well formulated exercises, with answers and hints collected at the end of the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Flavors of Geometry is a collection of lectures on four geometrically-influenced fields of mathematics that have experienced great development in recent years. It presents chapters by masters in their fields on hyperbolic geometry, dynamics in several complex variables, convex geometry, and volume estimation. Each lecture begins with a discussion of elementary concepts, examines the highlights of the field, and concludes with a look at more advanced material. The style and presentation of the chapters are clear and accessible, and many of the lectures are richly illustrated. The book includes bibiliographies and indexes to encourage further reading. It will be an influential resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in mathematics. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Image processing is concerned with the analysis and manipulation of images by computer. The focus of this book is to provide a thorough treatment of image processing with an emphasis on those aspects most used in computer graphics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This award-winning video visualizes the discovery that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motion if self-intersection of the material is allowed. Stunning computer animation combined with thorough explanations in the spoken text and the accompanying four-color booklet, Making Waves, classify this film as "educational entertainment...read more