Overview
- Collection of valuable papers designed to inspire today’s scientists to solve their own problems
- The book reflects the life-long scientific contributions of a contemporary geodesist
- The volume demonstrates how the smart application of mathematical methods can solve real life geodetic problems
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume contains selected papers by Torben Krarup, one of the most important geodesists of the 20th century. His writings are mathematically well founded and scientifically relevant. In this impressive collection of papers he demonstrates his rare innovative ability to present significant topics and concepts. Modern students of geodesy can learn a lot from his selection of mathematical tools for solving actual problems.
The collection contains the famous booklet "A Contribution to the Mathematical Foundation of Physical Geodesy" from 1969, the unpublished "Molodenskij letters" from 1973, the final version of "Integrated Geodesy" from 1978, "Foundation of a Theory of Elasticity for Geodetic Networks" from 1974, as well as numerous trend setting papers on the theory of adjustment.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The papers were written in the period 1962-1998 and present a wide range of significant topics in the mathematical foundation of geodesy. … All the articles are mathematically well founded and scientifically relevant. The book will be of interest to mathematicians and geodesists as well as to students and historians." (Alexander Denisjuk, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 i)
"Torben Krarup is one of the most outstanding theoretical geodesists … of the last 50 years. … written many small informal papers which circulated among friends and exerted considerable influence, not only in the geodetic community, but also, e.g. on the well-known mathematician L. Hörmander … . The present book comprises most of such … informal papers. … It is a must to all people, working in physical geodesy, to read this book … ." (Helmut Moritz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1162, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kai Borre has been a professor of geodesy at Aalborg University since 1976. His professional interests are geodesy and satellite based positioning and navigation. He is the (co)author of seven textbooks and has published numerous scientific reviewed papers. He is also an editor of GPS Solutions. Dr. Borre is renowned for having written several hundred Matlab scripts for positioning. He is honorary doctor of the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Foundation of Geodesy
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers of Torben Krarup
Editors: Kai Borre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33767-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-33765-2Published: 14 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07032-7Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-33767-6Published: 23 September 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 416
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geophysics/Geodesy, Earth Sciences, general, Potential Theory, Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Matrix Theory