Floer Memorial Volume (Progress in Mathematics) [Hardcover]

Helmut Hofer (Editor), Clifford H. Taubes (Editor), Alan Weinstein (Editor), Eduard Zehnder (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 1995 | ISBN-10: 376435044X | ISBN-13: 978-3764350444 | Edition: 1

Andreas Floer died on May 15, 1991 an untimely and tragic death. His visions and far-reaching contributions have significantly influenced the developments of mathematics. His main interests centered on the fields of dynamical systems, symplectic geometry, Yang-Mills theory and low dimensional topology. Motivated by the global existence problem of periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems and starting from ideas of Conley, Gromov and Witten, he developed his Floer homology, providing new, powerful methods which can be applied to problems inaccessible only a few years ago. This volume opens with a short biography and three hitherto unpublished papers of Andreas Floer. It then presents a collection of invited contributions, and survey articles as well as research papers on his fields of interest, bearing testimony of the high esteem and appreciation this brilliant mathematician enjoyed among his colleagues. Authors include: A. Floer, V.I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, M. Audin, D.M. Austin, S.M. Bates, P.J. Braam, M. Chaperon, R.L. Cohen, G. Dell' Antonio, S.K. Donaldson, B. D'Onofrio, I. Ekeland, Y. Eliashberg, K.D. Ernst, R. Finthushel, A.B. Givental, H. Hofer, J.D.S. Jones, I. McAllister, D. McDuff, Y.-G. Oh, L. Polterovich, D.A. Salamon, G.B. Segal, R. Stern, C.H. Taubes, C. Viterbo, A. Weinstein, E. Witten, E. Zehnder

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• Hardcover: 685 pages
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (September 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 376435044X
• ISBN-13: 978-3764350444
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
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