Probability, Geometry and Integrable Systems

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Mark Pinsky, Bjorn Birnir
Cambridge University Press, Mar 17, 2008 - Mathematics - 403 pages
The three main themes of this book, probability theory, differential geometry, and the theory of integrable systems, reflect the broad range of mathematical interests of Henry McKean, to whom it is dedicated. Written by experts in probability, geometry, integrable systems, turbulence, and percolation, the seventeen papers included here demonstrate a wide variety of techniques that have been developed to solve various mathematical problems in these areas. The topics are often combined in an unusual and interesting fashion to give solutions outside of the standard methods. The papers contain some exciting results and offer a guide to the contemporary literature on these subjects.

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Contents

Section 1
29
Section 2
53
Section 3
77
Section 4
103
Section 5
110
Section 6
113
Section 7
116
Section 8
117
Section 14
221
Section 15
241
Section 16
252
Section 17
255
Section 18
261
Section 19
287
Section 20
306
Section 21
321

Section 9
120
Section 10
131
Section 11
167
Section 12
185
Section 13
199
Section 22
345
Section 23
356
Section 24
360
Section 25
373
Section 26
397

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