Selected Works I: Mathematics and Mechanics

by Andrei N. Kolmogorov, Vladimir M. Tikhomirov (Contribution by)

Overview

The Praesidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences has decided to publish three volumes of Selected Works of A.N. Kolmogorov, one of the most prominent mathematicians of the 20th century. The creative work of A.N. Kolmogorov is exceptionally versatile. In his studies on trigonometric and orthogonal series, theory of measure and inte­ gral, mathematical logic, approximation theory, geometry, topology, functional analysis, classical mechanics, ergodic theory, superposition of functions, and in­ formation theory, many conceptual and fundamental problems were solved and new questions were posed which gave rise to a great number of investigations. A.N. Kolmogorov is one of the founders of the Soviet school of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and the theory of turbulence. In these areas he obtained a number of basic results, with many applications to mechanics, geophysics, linguistics, biology and other branches of knowledge. This edition includes the most important papers by A.N. Kolmogorov on mathematics and natural science. It does not include philosophical and ped­ agogical studies of A.N. Kolmogorov, his articles written for the "Bol'shaya Sov'etskaya Entsiklopediya", papers on prosody and various applications of mathematics and publications on general questions. The material of this edition was selected and grouped by A.N. Kolmogorov.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401053471
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/14/2012
Series:	Mathematics and its Applications , #25
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Pages:	551
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

1. A Fourier-Lebesgue series divergent almost everywhere.- 2. On the order of magnitude of the coefficients of Fourier-Lebesgue series.- 3. A remark on the study of the convergence of Fourier series.- 4. On convergence of Fourier series (in collaboration with G.A. Seliverstov).- 5. Axiomatic definition of the integral.- 6. On the limits of generalization of the integral.- 7. On the possibility of a general definition of derivative, integral and summation of divergent series.- 8. On conjugate harmonic functions and Fourier series.- 9. On the tertium non datur principle.- 10. On convergence of Fourier series (in collaboration with G.A. Seliverstov).- 11. A Fourier-Lebesgue series divergent of everywhere.- 12. On convergence of series of orthogonal functions (in collaboration with D.E. Men’shov).- 13. On operations on sets.- 14. On the Denjoy integration process.- 15. On the topological group-theoretic foundation of geometry.- 16. Studies on the concept of integral.- 17. On the notion of mean.- 18. On the compactness of sets of functions in the case of convergence in mean.- 19. On the interpretation of intuitionistic logic.- 20. On the foundation of projective geometry.- 21. On measure theory.- 22. On points of discontinuity offundions of two variables (in collaboration with LYa. Verchenko).- 23. On normability of a general topological linear space.- 24. Continuation of the study of points of discontinuity of functions of two variables (in collaboration with LYa. Verchenko).- 25. On the convergence of series in orthogonal polynomials.- 26. Laplace transformation in linear spaces.- 27. On the order of magnitude of the remainder term in the Fourier series of differentiable functions.- 28. On the best approximation of functions of a given class.- 29. On duality in combinatorial topology.- 30. Homology rings of complexes and locally bicompact spaces.- 31. Finite coverings of topological spaces (in collaboration with P.S. Aleksandrov).- 32. The Betti groups of locally bicompact spaces.- 33. Properties of the Betti groups of locally bicompact spaces.- 34. The Betti groups of metric spaces.- 35. Relative cycles. The Alexander duality theorem.- 36. On open mappings.- 37. Skew-symmetric forms and topological invariants.- 38. A study of the diffusion equation with increase in the amount of substance, and its application to a biological problem (in collaboration with I.G. Petrovskii and N.S. Piskunov).- 39. A simplified proof of the Birkhoff-Khinchin ergodic theorem.- 40. On inequalities for suprema of consecutive derivatives of an arbitrary function on an infinite interval.- 41. On rings of continuous functions on topological spaces (in collaboration with I.M. Gel’fand).- 42. Curves in a Hilbert space invariant with respect to a one-parameter group of motions.- 43. Wiener spirals and some other interesting curves in a Hilbert space.- 44. Points of local topological character of count ably-multiple open mappings of compacta.- 45. Local structure of turbulence in an incompressible viscous fluid at very large Reynolds numbers.- 46. On the degeneration of isotropic turbulence in an incompressible viscous fluid.- 47. Dissipation of energy in isotropic turbulence.- 48. Equations of turbulent motion in an incompressible fluid.- 49. A remark on Chebyshev polynomials least deviating from a given function.- 50. On the breakage of drops in a turbulent flow.- 51. On dynamical systems with an integral invariant on a torus.- 52. On the preservation of conditionally periodic motions under small variations of the Hamilton function.- 53. The general theory of dynamical systems and classical mechanics.- 54. Some fundamental problems in the approximate and exact representation of functions of one or several variables.- 55. On the representation of continuous functions of several variables as superpositions of continuous functions of a smaller number of variables.- 56. On the representation of continuous functions of several variables as superpositions of continuous functions of one variable and addition.- 57. On the linear dimension of topological vector spaces.- 58. A refinement of the concept of the local structure of turbulence in an incompressible viscous fluid at large Reynolds numbers.- 59. P.S. Aleksandrov and the theory of 8s-operations.- 60. A qualitative study of mathematical models of population dynamics.- Commentary.- List of works by A.N. Kolmogorov.

Editorial Reviews

This volume is the first of three volumes devoted to the work of one of the most prominent twentieth-century mathematicians. Throughout his mathematical work, A.N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987) showed great creativity and versatility. The first volume contains papers in mathematics (excluding probability theory and information theory, which are the subjects of the following two volumes), turbulence and classical mechanics. All papers appear in English--some translated from Russian for the first time--and in chronological order. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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