The text has been developed to meet the scope and sequence of most university physics courses and provides a foundation for a career in mathematics, science, or engineering.

In this volume, the authors provide a thorough introduction to characteristic classes, with detailed studies of Stiefel-Whitney classes, Chern classes, Pontrjagin classes, and the Euler class.

In this book the student or practitioner of statistics and probability will find discussions of the fundamental properties of copulas and some of their primary applications.

It presents a survey of recent research that extends "classical" results concerned with best-uniform approximation to the more general case. The work is organized to serve as a self-study guide or as a text for advanced courses.

This text on a central area of number theory covers p-adic L-functions, class numbers, cyclotomic units, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and Iwasawa’s theory of Z_p-extensions.

Overall, students discover how mathematics proceeds and how to use techniques that mathematicians actually employ. This book is included in the Brooks/Cole Series in Advanced Mathematics (Series Editor: Paul Sally, Jr.).

Though it incorporates much new material, this new edition preserves the general character of the book in providing a collection of solutions of the equations of diffusion and describing how these solutions may be obtained.

Heat Kernels and Spectral Theory investigates the theory of second-order elliptic operators.

An introduction to the current state of theory in a new and lively field, this volume offers both students and researchers a practical guide.

This book is designed to introduce the reader to the theory of semisimple Lie algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, with emphasis on representations.