Multiscale, Nonlinear and Adaptive Approximation: Dedicated to Wolfgang Dahmen on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

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Ronald DeVore, Angela Kunoth
Springer Science & Business Media, Sep 16, 2009 - Mathematics - 660 pages
The book of invited articles offers a collection of high-quality papers in selected and highly topical areas of Applied and Numerical Mathematics and Approximation Theory which have some connection to Wolfgang Dahmen's scientific work. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, leading experts have contributed survey and research papers in the areas of Nonlinear Approximation Theory, Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential and Integral Equations, Computer-Aided Geometric Design, and Learning Theory. The main focus and common theme of all the articles in this volume is the mathematics building the foundation for most efficient numerical algorithms for simulating complex phenomena.
 

Contents

Wolfgang Dahmens mathematical work
1
A personal view
19
On the efficient computation of highdimensional integrals and the approximation by exponential sums
39
Adaptive and anisotropic piecewise polynomial approximation
75
Anisotropic function spaces with applications
137
Nonlinear approximation and its applications
169
The nonlinear case
203
Rapid solution of boundary integral equations by wavelet Galerkin schemes
249
Learning out of leaders
295
Optimized wavelet preconditioning
325
Multiresolution schemes for conservation laws
379
An introduction
409
An overview
543
Optimal multilevel methods for Hgrad Hcurl and Hdiv systems on graded and unstructured grids
599
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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.

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