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The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff


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English | 2000 | ISBN: 9048153565 | 244 Pages | PDF | 7.6 MB
Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on His Life and Work Vol. II


Free Download Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on His Life and Work: Vol. II By Krister Segerberg, Sören Halldén, Jan Berg (auth.), Ghita Holmström-Hintikka, Sten Lindström, Rysiek Sliwinski (eds.)
2001 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 1402001126 | PDF | 9 MB
Stig Kanger (1924-1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy. Kanger’s most original achievements were in the areas of general proof theory, the semantics of modal and deontic logic, and the logical analysis of the concept of rights. But he contributed significantly to action theory, preference logic and the theory of measurement as well. This is the second of two volumes dedicated to the work of Stig Kanger. The first volume is a complete collection of Kanger’s philosophical papers. The present volume contains critical essays on the various aspects of Kanger’s work as well as some biographical sketches. Lennart Åqvist, Jan Berg, Brian Chellas, Anatoli Degtyarev, Lars Gustafsson, Sören Halldén, Kaj Børge Hansen, Sven Ove Hansson, Risto Hilpinen, Jaakko Hintikka, Ghita Holmström-Hintikka, Lars Lindahl, Sten Lindström, Ingmar Pörn, Dag Prawitz, Wlodek Rabinowicz, Krister Segerberg, Amartya Sen, Sören Stenlund, Göran Sundholm, and Andrei Voronkov have contributed to this volume.

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Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences


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2011 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 9400715145 | PDF | 4 MB
This volume begins with Schutz’s sketch of how Husserl influenced him. It shows how phenomenological theory of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz’s theory of relevances–a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It contains exchanges between Schutz and Eric Voegelin, Felix Kaufmann, Aron Gurwitsch, and Talcott Parsons, and presents, for the first time, Schutz’s incisive criticisms of T.S. Eliot’s theory of culture.

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Papers on Fuchsian Functions (2024)


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English | 1985 | ISBN: 0387962158, 1461295823 | DJVU | pages: 490 | 2.6 mb
by John Stillwell I. General Reaarb, Poincare’s papers on Fuchsian and Kleinian I1’OUps are of Il’eat interest from at least two points of view: history, of course, but also as an inspiration for further mathematical proll’ess. The papers are historic as the climax of the ceometric theory of functions initiated by Riemann, and ideal representatives of the unity between analysis, ceometry, topololY and alcebra which prevailed during the 1880’s. The rapid mathematical prOll’ess of the 20th century has been made at the expense of unity and historical perspective, and if mathematics is not to disintell’ate altogether, an effort must sometime be made to find its, main threads and weave them tocether 81ain. Poincare’s work is an excellent example of this process, and may yet prove to be at the core of a . new synthesis. Certainly, we are now able to gather up, some of the loose ends in Poincare, and a broader synthesis seems to be actually taking place in the work of Thurston. The papers I have selected include the three Il’eat memoirs in the first volumes of Acta Math. -tice, on- Fuchsian groups, Fuchsian, functions, and Kleinian groups (Poincare [1882 a, b,1883]). These are the papers which made his reputation and they include many results and proofs which are now standard. They are preceded by an, unedited memoir written by Poincare in May 1880 at the height of his, creative ferment.

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Collected Papers of John Milnor, IV Homotopy, Homology and Manifolds


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 082184475X | DJVU | pages: 368 | 6.2 mb
The development of algebraic topology in the 1950’s and 1960’s was deeply influenced by the work of Milnor. In this collection of papers the reader finds those original papers and some previously unpublished works. The book is divided into four parts: Homotopy Theory, Homology and Cohomology, Manifolds, and Expository Papers. Introductions to each part provide some historical context and subsequent development. Of particular interest are the articles on classifying spaces, the Steenrod algebra, the introductory notes on foliations and the surveys of work on the Poincare conjecture. Together with the previously published volumes I-III of the Collected Works by John Milnor, volume IV provides a rich portion of the most important developments in geometry and topology from those decades. This volume is highly recommended to a broad mathematical audience, and, in particular, to young mathematicians who will certainly benefit from their acquaintance with Milnor’s mode of thinking and writing.

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Collected Papers of John Milnor, II The Fundamental Group


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 0821848755 | DJVU | pages: 302 | 3.9 mb
This volume contains papers of one of the best modern geometers and topologists, John Milnor, on various topics related to the notion of the fundamental group. The volume contains sixteen papers divided into four parts: Knot theory, Free actions on spheres, Torsion, and Three-dimensional manifolds. Each part is preceded by an introduction containing the author’s comments on further development of the subject. Although some of the papers were written quite a while ago, they appear more modern than many of today’s publications. Milnor’s excellent, clear, and laconic style makes the book a real treat. This volume is highly recommended to a broad mathematical audience, and, in particular, to young mathematicians who will certainly benefit from their acquaintance with Milnor’s mode of thinking and writing.

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Collected Papers of John Milnor V. Algebra


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English | 2010 | ISBN: 0821848763 | DJVU | pages: 425 | 6.0 mb
In addition to his seminal work in topology, John Milnor is also an accomplished algebraist, producing a spectacular agenda-setting body of work related to algebraic $K$-theory and quadratic forms during the five year period 1965-1970. These papers, together with other (some of them previously unpublished) works in algebra are assembled here in this fifth volume of Milnor’s Collected Papers. They constitute not only an important historical archive, but also, thanks to the clarity and elegance of Milnor’s mathematical exposition, a valuable resource for work in the fields treated. In addition, Milnor’s papers are complemented by detailed surveys on the current state of the field in two areas. One is on the congruence subgroup problem, by Gopal Prasad and Andrei Rapinchuk. The other is on algebraic $K$-theory and quadratic forms, by Alexander Merkurjev.

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