Henry P. McKean Jr. Selecta / edited by F. Alberto Grünbaum, Pierre van Moerbeke, Victor H. Moll.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grünbaum, F. Alberto., Editor.

van Moerbeke, Pierre., Editor.

Moll, Victor H., Editor.

Series:

Contemporary Mathematicians

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics.

Mathematics, general.

Local Subjects:

Mathematics, general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of papers by Henry P. McKean, which illustrate the various areas in mathematics in which he has made seminal contributions. Topics covered include probability theory, integrable systems, geometry and financial mathematics. Each paper represents a contribution by Prof. McKean, either alone or together with other researchers, that has had a profound influence in the respective area.

Contents:

1.Personal Recollections

2.My Debt to Henry McKean

3.Henry McKean and Integrable Systems

4. Some Comments

5.Some Words from Three Students

6.Curvature and the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian

7.Hill's Operator and Hyperelliptic Function Theory in the Presence of Infinitely Many Branch Points

8.Book Reviews: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus by J. Feldman, H. Knörrer, and E. Trubowitz

9.Fredholm Determinants and the Camassa-Holm Hierarchy

10.Breakdown of the Camassa-Holm Equation

11.Rational Theory of Warrant Pricing

12.Geometry of KdV (1): Addition and the Unimodular Spectral Classes

13.Weighted Trigonometrical Approximation on R1 with Application to the Germ field of a Stationary Gaussian Noise

14.Brownian Local Times

15.Brownian Motions on a Half Line

16.The Spectrum of Hill's Equation

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

3-319-22237-6