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Multiscale, Nonlinear and Adaptive Approximation

Dedicated to Wolfgang Dahmen on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
  2. Introduction: Wolfgang Dahmen’s mathematical work

    • Ronald A. DeVore, Angela Kunoth
    Pages 1-17
  3. Adaptive and anisotropic piecewise polynomial approximation

    • Albert Cohen, Jean-Marie Mirebeau
    Pages 75-135
  4. Anisotropic function spaces with applications

    • Shai Dekel, Pencho Petrushev
    Pages 137-167
  5. Nonlinear approximation and its applications

    • Ronald A. DeVore
    Pages 169-201
  6. Rapid solution of boundary integral equations by wavelet Galerkin schemes

    • Helmut Harbrecht, Reinhold Schneider
    Pages 249-294
  7. Learning out of leaders

    • Gérard Kerkyacharian, Mathilde Mougeot, Dominique Picard, Karine Tribouley
    Pages 295-324
  8. Optimized wavelet preconditioning

    • Angela Kunoth
    Pages 325-378
  9. Multiresolution schemes for conservation laws

    • Siegfried Müller
    Pages 379-408
  10. Theory of adaptive finite element methods: An introduction

    • Ricardo H. Nochetto, Kunibert G. Siebert, Andreas Veeser
    Pages 409-542

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Mathematics, Texas A & M University, College Station, U.S.A.

    Ronald DeVore

  • Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Angela Kunoth

About the editors

Ronald DeVore's speciality is Nonlinear Approximation Theory. He is The Walter E. Koss Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and received an Honorary Doctorate from RWTH Aachen in 2004. In 2006, he was a Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.

Angela Kunoth is working on wavelet and multiscale methods for solving partial differential equations and for data analysis purposes. She holds the Chair of Complex Systems at Universitaet Paderborn since 2007 and is an editor of five journals in applied mathematics and numerics.

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