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FIVE DECADES AS A MATHEMATICIAN AND EDUCATOR
On the 80th Birthday of Professor Yung-Chow Wong

edited by K-Y Chan & M-C Liu (University of Hong Kong)


Contents:

  • My Early Life, 1913–1948 (Y-C Wong)
  • On the Eigenvalues and Numerical Range of a Quaternionic Matrix (Y-H Au-Yeung)
  • Monopoles as Fibre Bundles and Strings as Infinite Rank Tensors (H-M Chan & S T Tsou)
  • Approximation by Affine Functions (J-T Chan)
  • A Review on Optimal Design for Mixture Models (L-Y Chan)
  • Griffiths' Formalism on the Calculus of Variations via Exterior Differential Systems (W-S Cheung)
  • Change of Measures, Likelihood Ratio Martingales and Some Applications (T L Lai)
  • Beyond the Impossibility of a 16-Square Identity (K Y Lam & P Yiu)
  • Lie Group Homomorphisms which Induce Isomorphisms of Representation Rings (S P Lam)
  • A Lifting Theorem, and Rings with Isomorphic Matrix Rings (T Y Lam)
  • On Ternary Equations in Square-Free and Prime Variables (Y-L Lau, M-C Leung & M-C Liu)
  • Instantons and Three-Manifolds (R Lee)
  • Some Results on the c-Numerical Range (C-K Li & Y-T Poon)
  • A Matrix Formulation of the Complex Flag Manifolds (Q-K Lu)
  • The Integral Formulas of the Pontrjagin Characteristic Forms on an Oriented Differentiable Manifold (X-M Mei)
  • On the Construction of Tensor Fields and Connections on the Frame Bundle (K P Mok)
  • Cellular Manufacturing Systems: Formulation and Algorithmic Issues (S M Ng)
  • Which Inscribed N-Gon in an Ellipse has the Longest Perimeter? (M K Siu & K M Tsang)
  • Hyperbolicity Problems in Function Theory (Y-T Siu)
  • Extreme Positive Operators on Convex Cones (B-S Tam)
  • The Golden Mean and Its Way into Physics (B Y Tong)


Readership: Students and scientists in mathematics.

600pp Pub. date: Jul 1995
ISBN 978-981-02-2343-4
981-02-2343-9
US$79 / £55
US$32 / £22

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