Authors:Li Tatsien, Wang Libin, Ta-tsien Li,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: systems, hyperbolic, quasilinear
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-11-15
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0817642447
ISBN-13: 9780817642440

Quasilinear hyperbolic systems is an important area of partial differential equations with many applications in mechanics, physics and other sciences. In this work a new concept of weak linear degeneracy and normalized coordinates is introduced and its usefulness illustrated in several physical examples. One of the key strengths of the book is the presentation of a complete result for the global existence and blow-up phenomenon of classical solutions to the Cauchy problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems with small and decaying initial data. Previous results on this subject obtained

Authors:Joseph Needham, Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: technology, part, paper, printing, chemical, chemistry, civilisation, china, volume, science
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1985-08-30
List price: $257.00
ISBN-10: 0521086906
ISBN-13: 9780521086905

Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham’s great enterprise is written by one of the project’s collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been of profound importance in the spread of civilisation. The main body of the book is a detailed study of the invention, technology and

Authors:Dung Ngo, Steven Holl, Rick Joy, Billie Tsien,
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: houses, kundig, tom
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-11-09
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 156898605X
ISBN-13: 9781568986050

The work of Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig has been called both raw and refined, as well as super-crafted and warm. Kundig’s projects, especially his houses, uniquely combine these two seemingly disparate sets of characteristics to produce some of the most inventive structures found in the architecture world today. Kundig’s internationally acclaimed work is inspired by both the industrial structures with which he grew up in the Pacific Northwest and the vibrant craft cultures that are fostered there. His buildings uniquely meld industrial sensibilities and materials such as Cor

Authors:Gui-Qiang Chen, Gui-Qiang Chen, Ta-Tsien Li, Chun Liu
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: series, contemporary, applied, mathematics, topics, related, conservation, laws, fluid, systems, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-06-12
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 9814273279
ISBN-13: 9789814273275

This book is a collection of lecture notes on Nonlinear Conservation Laws, Fluid Systems and Related Topics delivered at the 2007 Shanghai Mathematics Summer School held at Fudan University, China, by world’s leading experts in the field. The volume comprises five chapters that cover a range of topics from mathematical theory and numerical approximation of both incompressible and compressible fluid flows, kinetic theory and conservation laws, to statistical theories for fluid systems. Researchers and graduate students who want to work in this field will benefit from this essential ref

Authors:Philippe G. Ciarlet, Philippe G. Ciarlet, Ta-Tsien L
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: mathematics, contemporary, applied, series, applications, geometry, theory, differential
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 9812771468
ISBN-13: 9789812771469

This book gives the basic notions of differential geometry, such as the metric tensor, the Riemann curvature tensor, the fundamental forms of a surface, covariant derivatives, and the fundamental theorem of surface theory in a self-contained and accessible manner. Although the field is often considered a classical one, it has recently been rejuvenated, thanks to the manifold applications where it plays an essential role. The book presents some important applications to shells, such as the theory of linearly and nonlinearly elastic shells, the implementation of numerical methods for shells,