Books in Oxford science publications series

Introduction to Integration provides a unified account of integration theory, giving a practical guide to the Lebesgue integral and its uses, with a wealth of examples and exercises. Intended as a first course in integration theory for students familiar with real analysis, the book begins with a simplified Lebesgue integral, which is then developed to provide an entry point for important results in the field. The final chapters present selected applications, mostly drawn from Fourier analysis. The emphasis throughout is on integrable functions rather than on measures. Designed as an undergraduate or graduate textbook, it is a companion volume to the author's Introduction to Complex Analysis and is aimed at both pure and applied mathematicians.

Though only two elephant species remain alive today, the Proboscidea were one of the great mammalian orders of the Cenozoic. Their success through the ages is reflected by their morphological and taxonomic diversity, their nearly worldwide distribution, and their persistence through nearly fifty million years. Their great ability to migrate and to adapt to changing climatic conditions and interspecific competition provides a unique insight into evolution. Written by leading experts, this is the first complete treatise on the evolution and palaeoecology of this group in fifty years. It reviews their classification and phylogeny, the early differentiation of proboscideans, major adaptive radiations and their evolutionary patterns, and the origins and current status of extant elephant species. Students, researchers, and professionals in zoology, palaeontology, evolutionary biology, and ecology as well as curatorial staff at natural history museums will want to read this book.

Introduction to Integration provides a unified account of integration theory, giving a practical guide to the Lebesgue integral and its uses, with a wealth of examples and exercises. Intended as a first course in integration theory for students familiar with real analysis, the book begins with a simplified Lebesgue integral, which is then developed to provide an entry point for important results in the field. The final chapters present selected applications, mostly drawn from Fourier analysis. The emphasis throughout is on integrable functions rather than on measures. Designed as an undergraduate or graduate textbook, it is a companion volume to the author's Introduction to Complex Analysis and is aimed at both pure and applied mathematicians.

Clear and concise, this book explains why software is difficult to develop and discusses some of the solutions being adopted to overcome the difficulties. The book describes how software systems "rust", how mathematics aids software developers, the attempts that researchers make in order to automate the software development process, and some of the advances being made in artificial intelligence. Written for the general reader, the book describes current advances in software engineering in a way that will be accessible even to readers with little knowledge of computing concepts.

Clear and concise, this book explains why software is difficult to develop and discusses some of the solutions being adopted to overcome the difficulties. The book describes how software systems "rust", how mathematics aids software developers, the attempts that researchers make in order to automate the software development process, and some of the advances being made in artificial intelligence. Written for the general reader, the book describes current advances in software engineering in a way that will be accessible even to readers with little knowledge of computing concepts.

Modern Radio Science 1990 is an up-to-date review of major recent advances in the field of radio science. A wide range of topics -- from simulation techniques for plasma wave studies to the effects of electromagnetic fields on living systems -- are presented by a distinguished international authorship. This is an essential work to introduce novices to the field, and to update specialists on the state of the art of radio science.