The Floer Memorial Volume 1995 Edition Contributor(s): Hofer, Helmut (Editor), Taubes, Clifford H. (Editor), Weinstein, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 376435044X ISBN-13: 9783764350444 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1995 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Geometry - Differential - Mathematics | Mathematical Analysis - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
Dewey: 514.2 |
LCCN: 95020478 |
Series: Progress in Mathematics |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.56 lbs) 691 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Andreas Floer died on May 15, 1991 an untimely and tragic death. His visions and far-reaching contributions have significantly influenced the developments of mathematics. His main interests centered on the fields of dynamical systems, symplectic geometry, Yang-Mills theory and low dimensional topology. Motivated by the global existence problem of periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems and starting from ideas of Conley, Gromov and Witten, he developed his Floer homology, providing new, powerful methods which can be applied to problems inaccessible only a few years ago. This volume opens with a short biography and three hitherto unpublished papers of Andreas Floer. It then presents a collection of invited contributions, and survey articles as well as research papers on his fields of interest, bearing testimony of the high esteem and appreciation this brilliant mathematician enjoyed among his colleagues. Authors include: A. Floer, V.I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, M. Audin, D.M. Austin, S.M. Bates, P.J. Braam, M. Chaperon, R.L. Cohen, G. Dell' Antonio, S.K. Donaldson, B. D'Onofrio, I. Ekeland, Y. Eliashberg, K.D. Ernst, R. Finthushel, A.B. Givental, H. Hofer, J.D.S. Jones, I. McAllister, D. McDuff, Y.-G. Oh, L. Polterovich, D.A. Salamon, G.B. Segal, R. Stern, C.H. Taubes, C. Viterbo, A. Weinstein, E. Witten, E. Zehnder |