Symposia Gaussiana : : Proceedings of the 2nd Gauss Symposium, August 2-7, 1993, Munich. / Conference A, : Mathematics and Theoretical Physics / / ed. by Minaketan Behara, Rubens G. Lintz, Rudolf Fritsch.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©1995
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics ; Conference A
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XX
  • Opening Lecture
  • Wie Gauß die alte Göttinger Mathematik schuf
  • Plenary Addresses
  • Functional integration; a semi-historical perspective
  • Existence of lattice structures in a class of magnetic phase transitions
  • The Fibonacci numbers and the Arctic Ocean
  • Section 0: Mathematical Education
  • Interplay of ideas in teaching mathematics
  • Soviet studies on teaching of university mathematics
  • The role of microworlds for constructing mathematical concepts
  • Section 1: History of Mathematics
  • "Gaußsche Quadrate" or Knut Vik designs—the history of a combinatorial structure
  • Die Mathematik und ihre Assistenten an der TH München (1868-1918)
  • An afterthought of Gauss on cyclotomy
  • Harmony and cosmos: mathematics serving a teleological understanding of the world
  • Gauß' Arbeiten über kürzeste Linien aus der Sicht der Variationsrechnung
  • Implizite gruppentheoretische Denkformen in den „Disquisitiones arithmeticae" von Carl Friedrich Gauß
  • Section 2: Mathematical Logic
  • Programs from classical proofs
  • Semantics for some constructors of type theory
  • Loop-free construction of counter-models in intuitionistic propositional logic
  • Section 3: Algebra and Number Theory
  • G-Cogalois field extensions and primitive elements
  • Sums of three squares, from Gauß to modular forms
  • Local Galois module structure and Hopf orders
  • Recipes for lattice dicing
  • Representations of Lie algebras with triangular decomposition
  • Local class field theory for metabelian extensions
  • Convexity theories 0 cont.—foundations
  • Banach spaces and superconvex modules
  • Affine categories which are varieties
  • A geometrical approach to rational solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation. Part I
  • Section 4: Geometry
  • Necessary conditions for the existence of conservation laws for systems of partial differential equations
  • A new decoration of the Socolar-Steinhardt tilings; an initial model for quasicrystals
  • A skew-symmetric curvature operator in Riemannian geometry
  • Development of non-Euclidean geometries since Gauß
  • Recent results in elementary geometry, part II
  • A curvature operator in Riemannian geometry
  • Section 5: Analysis of Several Complex Variables
  • The theorem of Gauß-Bonnet in complex analysis
  • On the origins of p-adic analysis
  • Section 7: Algebraic Topology
  • Certain properties of minimal triangulations of spheres
  • Stiefel-Whitney polynomials
  • On spherically generated rational spaces
  • Approximating spaces by polyhedra
  • Finite determinacy phenomena for finitely presented groups
  • Section 8: Quantum Groups and q-Deformation
  • Modular properties of ribbon abelian categories
  • Hopf-Galois extensions of graded algebras
  • Section 9: Computational Physics
  • Massive parallelism as the new track for scientific computing
  • Section 10: Relativistic Celestial Mechanics: Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Relativistic celestial mechanics
  • Timelike incompleteness of spacetimes
  • The Lyman α forests and the universal bubble structure
  • Nonradial oscillations of neutron stars: a new branch of strongly damped normal modes
  • Testing Einstein's theory of gravity by lunar laser ranging
  • The gravitational fields of rotating bodies as minimal surfaces
  • The general relativistic two-body-problem. Theory and experiment
  • The solution of the second post-Newtonian two-body problem
  • Section 11: Gauß and Geomagnetism
  • Magnetospheres: the external magnetic field
  • Section 12: General
  • An inequality for the Kummer confluent hypergeometric function
  • Complete systems of Kummer and Weber-Hermite functions in spaces of holomorphic functions
  • Epimorphisms of topological groups and Z-sets in the Hilbert cube
  • Alphabetical List of Contributors
  • Author Index