Since the 1960s, many researchers have extended topological degree theory to various non-compact type nonlinear mappings, and it has become a valuable tool in nonlinear analysis. Presenting a survey of advances made in generalizations of degree theory during the past decade, this book focuses on…
Hardback – 2006-03-27
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Nonlinear analysis is a broad, interdisciplinary field characterized by a remarkable mixture of analysis, topology, and applications. Its concepts and techniques provide the tools for developing more realistic and accurate models for a variety of phenomena encountered in fields ranging from…
Hardback – 2005-07-27
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Starting in the early 1980s, people using the tools of nonsmooth analysis developed some remarkable nonsmooth extensions of the existing critical point theory. Until now, however, no one had gathered these tools and results together into a unified, systematic survey of these advances.This book…
Hardback – 2004-07-27
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Fuzzy differential functions are applicable to real-world problems in engineering, computer science, and social science. That relevance makes for rapid development of new ideas and theories. This volume is a timely introduction to the subject that describes the current state of the theory of fuzzy…
Hardback – 2003-03-20
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
A monotone iterative technique is used to obtain monotone approximate solutions that converge to the solution of nonlinear problems of partial differential equations of elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic type. This volume describes that technique, which has played a valuable role in unifying a…
Hardback – 2003-02-27
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
The qualitative theory of dynamic equations is a rapidly developing area of research. In the last 50 years, the Oscillation Theory of ordinary, functional, neutral, partial and impulsive differential equations, and their discrete versions, has inspired many scholars. Hundreds of research papers…
Hardback – 2002-11-21
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
This volume presents a systematic and unified treatment of Leray-Schauder continuation theorems in nonlinear analysis. In particular, fixed point theory is established for many classes of maps, such as contractive, non-expansive, accretive, and compact maps, to name but a few. This book also…
Hardback – 2002-10-24
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Interest in the mathematical analysis of multi-functions has increased rapidly over the past thirty years, partly because of its applications in fields such as biology, control theory and optimization, economics, game theory, and physics. Set Valued Mappings with Applications to Nonlinear Analysis…
Hardback – 2002-09-26
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
This collection of 24 papers, which encompasses the construction and the qualitative as well as quantitative properties of solutions of Volterra, Fredholm, delay, impulse integral and integro-differential equations in various spaces on bounded as well as unbounded intervals, will conduce and spur…
Hardback – 2000-03-09
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Method of Variation of Parameters for Dynamic Systems presents a systematic and unified theory of the development of the theory of the method of variation of parameters, its unification with Lyapunov's method and typical applications of these methods. No other attempt has been made to bring all the…
Hardback – 1998-07-28
CRC Press
Mathematical Analysis and Applications