Multiscale, Nonlinear and Adaptive Approximation
Dedicated to Wolfgang Dahmen on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
Editors: DeVore, Ronald, Kunoth, Angela (Eds.)
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- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Wolfgang Dahmen’s mathematical work
Pages 1-17
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The way things were in multivariate splines: A personal view
Pages 19-37
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On the efficient computation of high-dimensional integrals and the approximation by exponential sums
Pages 39-74
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Adaptive and anisotropic piecewise polynomial approximation
Pages 75-135
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Anisotropic function spaces with applications
Pages 137-167
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Multiscale, Nonlinear and Adaptive Approximation
- Book Subtitle
- Dedicated to Wolfgang Dahmen on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
- Editors
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- Ronald DeVore
- Angela Kunoth
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-03413-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-03413-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-03412-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-42457-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 660
- Topics