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Frontiers of applied geometry : invited papers from the research workshop on Frontiers of applied geometry, held at the Holy Cross Retreat Hiouse, Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 7-11, 1980

Autori Vari

Pergamon Press

1981

guest editors R.J.Y. McLeod, E.L. Wachspress
P. 271-411 : ill. ; 25 cm. (140 pagine complessive)
(Mathematical modelling : an international journa. Volume 1, Number 4, 1980)

Contents :
- Introduction
1. Drawing surfaces and their deformations: The tobacco pouch eversions of the sphere / George K. Francis
2. Bifurcation geometry of E6 / James Callahan
3. Statistical catastrophe theory: An overview / Loren Cobb, Bill Watson
4. Catastrophe theory and law / R. Keown
5. Qualitative curve sketching / Paul Cherenack
6. On the attainable sets for multivalued differential equations / P. Zecca
7. Subjective geometry and geometric psychology / William C. Hoffman
8. Bipolar harmonics on a circular drum / James A. Nickel
9. Geometric probability / Richard A. Vitale
10. Riemannian submersions and instantons / Bill Watson
11. The case of the vanishing denominator / Eugene L. Wachspress

Abstracts of additional workshop lectures
- Geometric aspects of catastrophe theory / J. Callahan
- A geometrical formulation of the embedding problem for stochastic matrices / Gerald S. Goodman
- The local classification of phase diagrams in thermodynamic field space / Donal O’Shea
- Alternative representations for geometric models of three-dimensional free-form objects /   JeffreyL. Posdamer
- Two talks on geometric modelling of physical solids. I—CAD/CAM: Computer aided/automated design and manufacturing. II—PMC: A case study in computational geometry / Aristides A.G. Requicha
- Algebraic geometry foundations for finite element computation / E.L. Wachspress
- Current research involving applications of geometry to finite element computation / E.L. Wachspress

Announcement
- Third international conference on mathematical modelling an interdisciplinary integrative forum on mathematical modelling in engineering, biological, medical, environmental, social and other sciences July 29–31, 1981 University of Southern California Los Angeles, California U.S.A.

- List of Contents and Author Index Volume 1, 1980

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