Ion Channels in Biomembranes and Their Mimics
This volume provides a unified treatment of the structure and function of ion channels, clarifying how electrophysiological and electrochemical tools are essential to understanding ion transport. It bridges the gap between biology and electrochemistry for all life scientists.
This book covers special and general relativity, tensor calculus, Einstein’s field equations, and cosmological models. It also provides a lucid introduction to alternative theories of gravitation. Including examples and exercises, it is an asset for every student and researcher.
This book covers degenerate and singular elliptic equations, which appear in applications from glaciology to fluid mechanics. Based on the author’s research, it is a useful reference for graduate students and researchers interested in differential equations.
Complex oil and gas extraction is accompanied by grave failures like drill string buckling, resonant vibrations, and bit whirling. To analyze these phenomena, this book elaborates new mathematical models and numerical methods, offering new results for designers and specialists.
Experiences in the Biocontinuum
This book addresses the central question of what makes living systems unique. Building on information theory, thermodynamics, and systems theory, it forms a singular unifying concept and develops a dynamic mathematical framework for the study of life’s fundamental processes.
A tribute to universal mathematician Francisco Bulnes, whose contributions to pure and applied math are vital for future technologies and our understanding of the universe. Through anecdotes and analyses of his work, this book offers inspiration to PhD students and researchers.
For specialists in mathematics, science, and engineering, this guide applies numerical methods to solve complex systems. Explore techniques in C++, Maple, and MATLAB through practical case studies in data analysis, optimisation, and differential equations.
Statistics Meets Sports
In the world of sports, data science and analytics are leading to game-changing insights. This book provides a solid understanding of these new trends and offers the interested reader a starting point from which to dive into this blossoming field.
Digitalization leads to complex applications encoded by simple Boolean variables. However, their exponential growth creates challenges. This book gathers research on the Boolean domain to help readers solve these real-life scientific and practical tasks.
This book explains basic concepts of mathematical analysis, including functions, numerical sequences, convergence, and limits. It also covers the continuity and differentiability of functions, their applications, and the graphic representation of parametric functions.
This illustrated guide explores moiré patterns in 1D, 2D, 3D, and time. Learn to identify, distinguish, evaluate, and control the moiré effect, and to use it in modern technologies.
Based on 60 years of research, this book reveals a powerful message: qualitative data is more informative than quantitative data. Learn how to analyze it quantitatively to extract more information, using simple illustrations of difficult topics that anyone can understand.
This book tackles the significant challenges of evolutionary processes with memory. It studies their properties by introducing a resolvent family to represent solutions, and explores the dual problem, solvability issues, invariant subspaces, and spectral theory.
An introduction to Graph Theory and Combinatorics and their Applications. Presented in a simple way with examples, it contains a wide variety of applications to real world Science and Engineering problems and includes multiple choice questions for competitive exams.
This book covers the theory and practice of hypothesis testing: deciding on the plausibility of models based on data. Useful for researchers and practitioners at all levels, it discusses important practical problems and provides detailed algorithms for their solutions.
This book covers production planning and scheduling for high-volume, high-mixture semiconductor manufacturing. It explores topics such as work-in-process management, setup times, techniques of lot batching and splitting, lot sizing, and rescheduling questions.
A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications
This book covers a vast range of mathematics, from logic, number theory, and algebra to calculus, topology, and geometry. It includes complex analysis, differential equations, and matrices, with applications in the natural and social sciences, from physics to economics.
Explore nonlinear physics using the asymptotic perturbation method. This textbook systematically develops the theory, from nonlinear oscillators to fractal and chaotic solutions in NPDEs. With an emphasis on applications and examples, it is ideal for a senior or graduate course.
Explore mathematical concepts from historical and cultural perspectives. This book uses original material to offer new discoveries and re-interpretations of problems, from the abacus to integral calculus. An enthusiastic and rigorous read for educators and general readers alike.
In multiplicative calculus, division and multiplication replace the roles of subtraction and addition. This book is devoted to multiplicative Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, summarizing the most recent contributions for mathematicians, physicists, engineers and biologists.