This book discusses the foundations of the mathematical theory of finite element methods. The focus is on the concept of discrete stability and the exact sequence conforming elements and covers both coercive and non-coercive problems. Following a historical path of development, the author covers the Ritz and the Galerkin methods to Mikhlin's ......
This volume is based on lectures delivered at the 2020 AMS Short Course ""Mean Field Games: Agent Based Models to Nash Equilibria,"" held January 13-14, 2020, in Denver, Colorado. Mean field game theory offers a robust methodology for studying large systems of interacting rational agents. It has been extraordinarily successful and has continued ......
Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an impenetrable enigma. Now, two physicists seek to remedy this situation by both drawing on their scientific expertise and their talent for communicating science ......
Music is not simply something we hear. We experience it and love it; it is a primal human need. If, as the pianist Alfred Brendel put it, that we are able to "take music at its word," we confront questions that also moved the author since his adolescent years: What takes hold of me when I experience music? What reality touches me when music is ......
The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona
In Geographies of the Ear, Tania Gentic examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. She theorizes "echoic memory" to understand how sound circulates from the past to the present-and from the neighborhood to the nation to the globe - to trace how sonic practices produce and ......
The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona
In Geographies of the Ear, Tania Gentic examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. She theorizes "echoic memory" to understand how sound circulates from the past to the present - and from the neighborhood to the nation to the globe - to trace how sonic practices produce ......
In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving sounds from the archive that were not meant to be heard. Drawing on Angel Rama's notion of the Lettered City, Madrid proposes a notion of the Aural City - a Latin American urban intellectual elite for whom sound and listening are central to the ......
In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving sounds from the archive that were not meant to be heard. Drawing on Angel Rama's notion of the Lettered City, Madrid proposes a notion of the Aural City - a Latin American urban intellectual elite for whom sound and listening are central to the ......
Topics covered include a framework for analyzing the relationships between space and sound; British Asian dance music as a reflection on the politics of genre and multiculture; Caribbean radio and Black technologies as the sound of Britain's dying colonialism; Black music as folk music in England; and sonic third worldism in the Eastern ......
