Overview
- Provides an accessible and "class-tested" introduction to the field of qualitative methods in inverse scattering theory
- Offers new techniques in qualitative methods in inverse scattering theory
- Makes new ideas available to the wider scientific and engineering community
- Useful for graduate and postgraduate students in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in both industry and universities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (IMM)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Inverse scattering theory has been a particularly active and successful field in applied mathematics and engineering for the past twenty years. The increasing demands of imaging and target identification require new powerful and flexible techniques besides the existing weak scattering approximation or nonlinear optimization methods. One class of such methods comes under the general description of qualitative methods in inverse scattering theory. This textbook is an easily-accessible "class-tested" introduction to the field. It is accessible also to readers who are not professional mathematicians, thus making these new mathematical ideas in inverse scattering theory available to the wider scientific and engineering community.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book presents a qualitative approach to inverse scattering theory for electromagnetic waves, and contains also complementary material for the corresponding direct problems. It consists of 9 chapters, references and an index. The topics are presented at an introductional level, accessible to anyone having a mathematical background only in advanced calculus and linear algebra. … The book is well-written, and readable at the level of advanced graduate students." (Luis Filipe Pinheiro de Castro, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1099 (1), 2007)
"This book is an excellent introduction to the newly developed class of methods in inverse scattering theory … . the authors make a huge pedagogical effort to make the book self-contained and accessible to readers without a strong mathematical background. … This is definitely the book to start with for anyone who would like to be introduced to this new field in inverse scattering theory." (Houssem Haddar, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 c)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Qualitative Methods in Inverse Scattering Theory
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Fioralba Cakoni, David Colton
Series Title: Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31230-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28844-2Published: 03 November 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31230-7Published: 29 December 2005
Series ISSN: 1860-6245
Series E-ISSN: 1860-6253
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 227
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Analysis, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Applications of Mathematics, Solid Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Electrical Engineering