Five Decades As a Mathematician and Educator : On the 80th Birthday of Professor Yung-Chow Wong

by Wong, Yung-Chow; Liu, Ming-Chit; Chan, Kai-Yuen

• ISBN13: 9789810223434
• ISBN10: 9810223439
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface
My Early Life, 1913-1948	p. 1
On the Eigenvalues and Numerical Range of a Quaternionic Matrix	p. 19
Monopoles as Fibre Bundles and Strings as Infinite Rank Tensors	p. 31
Approximation by Affine Functions	p. 39
A Review on Optimal Design for Mixture Models	p. 45
Griffiths' Formalism on the Calculus of Variations via Exterior Differential Systems	p. 89
Change of Measures, Likelihood Ratio Martingales and Some Applications	p. 117
Beyond the Impossibility of a 16-Square Identity	p. 137
Lie Group Homomorphisms which Induce Isomorphisms of Representation Rings	p. 165
A Lifting Theorem, and Rings with Isomorphic Matrix Rings	p. 169
On Ternary Equations in Square-Free and Prime Variables	p. 187
Instantons and Three-Manifolds	p. 229
Some Results on the c-Numerical Range	p. 247
A Matrix Formulation of the Complex Flag Manifolds	p. 259
Invariants of Strongly Pseudoconvex CR Manifolds	p. 279
The Integral Formulas of the Pontrjagin Characteristic Forms on an Oriented Differentiable Manifold	p. 307
On the Construction of Tensor Fields and Connections on the Frame Bundle	p. 321
Cellular Manufacturing Systems: Formulation and Algorithmic Issues	p. 367
Which Inscribed N-Gon in an Ellipse has the Longest Perimeter?	p. 391
Hyperbolicity Problems in Function Theory	p. 409
Extreme Positive Operators on Convex Cones	p. 515
The Golden Mean and its Way into Physics	p. 559
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.