The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale

• Author(s): Stephen Smale, Felipe Cucker, Roderick Wong,
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Pages: 1677
• ISBN_10: 9810249918
  ISBN_13: 9789810249915
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Mathematics / General , Computers / Computer Science , Mathematics / Differential Equations / General , Mathematics / Geometry / Analytic ,

Description:... This invaluable book contains the collected papers of Stephen Smale. These are divided into eight groups: topology; calculus of variations; dynamics; mechanics; economics; biology, electric circuits and mathematical programming; theory of computation; miscellaneous. In addition, each group contains one or two articles by world leaders on its subject which comment on the influence of Smale's work, and another article by Smale with his own retrospective views.