Books in the Lezioni Lincee series

This 1994 volume explores the hypothesis that neural activity generated by experience modulates the ongoing growth of the brain during maturation, thus sculpting in each of us a unique nervous system according to the events of our early life.

This 1998 book covers the twin themes of computational complexity and information.

The basic ideas of geometrical probability and the theory of shape are here presented in their natural framework. In this way, the relationship between the subject and enumerative combinatorics is more transparent, and the analogies can be more productively understood. Geometers and combinatorialists will find this a most stimulating and fruitful story.

In 1993, Professor Oleinik was invited to give a series of lectures about her work in the area of partial differential equations. This book contains those lectures, and more.

The theme of this book is the investigation of globally asymptotic solutions of evolutionary equations. The lectures on which it is based were warmly received at the universities of Rome and Pavia, and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Here Professor Vishik has collated his lecture notes.

These notes deal with an area that lies at the crossroads of mathematics and physics and rest primarily on the pioneering work of Vaughan Jones and Edward Witten, who related polynomial invariants of knots to a topological quantum field theory in 2+1 dimensions.

This book is about the invention of new chemical reactions for use in the synthesis of biologically and economically important compounds. The reactions invented in the last 20 years are making important contributions to industrial and university research.

This 1994 book is based on a series of six lectures given at the Accademia dei Lincei. The contents focus on the special properties of bound carbohydrates in nature. It will prove an instructive and entertaining first hand account for researchers and graduate students.

This book, based on lectures given at the Polytechnic of Milan, gives a broad overview of the field of polymer dynamics. In these lectures the aim is to stress the fundamental concepts of the behaviour of polymers without drawing on the more advanced mathematical formalism which often obscures the natural elegance of the subject matter.