This extraordinary collection of papers addresses a fundamental question of logic and computation. "What is a logical system?". With contributions from many world famous researchers, it presents a wide spectrum of views on the problem,...

Polymeric materials include plastics, gels, synthetic fibres, and rubbers. They are all-important both in industry and in daily life. Unlike liquid water, ice, or sugar solution, polymers are not homogeneous. They are said to consist of...

"Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz" ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die von Philip Pettit und anderen renommierten Philosophen verfasst wurden. Das Buch würdigt das umfangreiche Werk des einflussreichen...

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement...

The literature of Ireland displays an exceptional richness and diversity - whether in Irish or English, by native Irish and Anglo-Irish writers or by outsiders like Edmund Spenser whose works were deeply imbued with the country in which...

"Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume 4" ist eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen, die sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten der Philosophie der frühen Neuzeit befassen. Herausgegeben von Steven Nadler, bietet dieser Band tiefgehende...

The book contains the only available complete presentation of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of complex dynamics of glass-forming liquids, dense polymer melts, and colloidal suspensions. It describes in a self-contained manner the...

The asymptotic analysis of boundary value problems in parameter-dependent domains is a rapidly developing field of research in the theory of partial differential equations, with important applications in electrostatics, elasticity,...

"The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" von Denis McManus bietet eine eingehende Analyse und Interpretation des berühmten Werks von Ludwig Wittgenstein, dem "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". McManus...

It has been known for some time that many of the familiar integrable systems of equations are symmetry reductions of self-duality equations on a metric or on a Yang-Mills connection (for example, the Korteweg-de Vries and nonlinear...