Author | Lang, Serge. author |
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Title | Math Talks for Undergraduates [electronic resource] / by Serge Lang |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1476-2 |
Descript | IX, 121 p. online resource |
Prime Numbers -- The abc Conjecture -- Global Integration of Locally Integrable Vector Fields -- Approximation Theorems of Analysi -- Approximation Theorems of Analysis -- Examples: Weierstrass Approximation, Fourier Series, Harmonic Functions on the Disc, Harmonic Functions on the Upper Half Plane -- The Heat Kernel on the Real Line -- The Heat Kernel on the Circle -- Theta Series and the Convolution Product -- The Poisson Summation Formula and Functional Equation of the Zeta Function -- Theta Functions and Complex Doubly Periodic Functions -- Bruhat-Tits Spaces -- The Semi Parallelogram Law -- The Space of Positive Definite Matrices -- The Metric Increasing Property of the Exponential Map -- Historical Notes -- Harmonic and Symmetric Polynomials -- A Positive Definite Scalar Product -- Harmonic Polynomials -- Symmetric Polynomials