Highway under the Hudson [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the Holland Tunnel / / Robert W. Jackson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457370203321
• Autore: Jackson Robert W (Robert Wendell), <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 0-8147-4504-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Classificazione: ZI 6505
• Disciplina: 388.4/11
• Soggetti: Tunnels - New York (State) - New York - Design and construction - History - 20th century; City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Urban transportation - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; Holland Tunnel (Jersey City, N.J., and New York, N.Y.) History; New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951; New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions 20th century; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1898-1951
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Impetus -- 2. Vexing Questions -- 3. A Coal Famine -- 4. The Wedding Ring -- 5. A Controversy Acute and Personal -- 6. Political and Petty Tampering -- 7. Another Long and Costly Delay -- 8. A Tempest in a Teapot -- 9. The Sandhogs -- 10. The Holland Tunnel -- 11. One Work Complete -- 12. Fires, Blasts Rip Holland Tunnel -- 13. Built to Last Forever -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 "There is no comparable book on this tunnel. Highly recommended."—Choice ReviewsEvery year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's 1.6-mile corridor on a daily basis, and yet few know much about this ; amazing feat of early 20th-century engineering. How was it built, by whom, and at what cost? These and many other questions are answered in Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel, Robert W. Jackson's fascinating story about this seminal structure in the history of urban transportation. Jackson explains the economic forces which led to the need for the tunnel, and details the extraordinary political and social politicking that took place on both sides of the Hudson River to finally enable its construction. He also introduces us to important figures in the tunnel's history, such as New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, who, more than anyone else, made the dream of a tunnel a reality and George Washington Goethals (builder of the Panama Canal and namesake of the Goethals Bridge), the first chief engineer of the project.Fully illustrated with more than 50 beautiful archival photographs and drawings, Jackson's story of the Holland Tunnel is one of great human drama, with heroes and villains, that illustrates how great things are accomplished, and at what price.Highway Under the Hudson featured in the New York TimesListen to Robert Jackson talk about the book on WAMC Radio

Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician / / edited by Peter A. Loeb, Manfred P. H. Wolff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299767903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 94-017-7327-0
• Edizione: [2nd ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (485 p.)
• Disciplina: 510
• Soggetti: Functional analysis; Measure theory; Operator theory; Game theory; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Number theory; Functional Analysis; Measure and Integration; Operator Theory; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Number Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Simple Nonstandard Analysis and Applications -- An Introduction to General Nonstandard Analysis -- Topology and Measure Theory -- Banach Spaces and Linear Operators -- General and End Compactifications -- Measure theory and integration -- Stochastic Analysis -- New Understanding of Stochastic Independence -- Nonstandard Analysis in Mathematical Economics -- Density Problems and Freiman's Inverse Problem -- Hypernatural numbers as ultrafilters.
• Sommario/riassunto: Starting with a simple formulation accessible to all mathematicians, this second edition is designed to provide a thorough introduction to nonstandard analysis. Nonstandard analysis is now a well-developed, powerful instrument for solving open problems in almost all disciplines of mathematics; it is often used as a ‘secret weapon’ by those who know the technique. This book illuminates the subject with some of the most striking applications in analysis, topology, functional analysis, probability and stochastic analysis, as well as applications in economics and combinatorial number theory. The first chapter is designed to facilitate the beginner in learning this technique by starting with calculus and basic real analysis. The second chapter provides the reader with the most important tools of nonstandard analysis: the transfer principle, Keisler’s internal definition principle, the spill-over principle, and saturation. The remaining chapters of the book study different fields for applications; each begins with a gentle introduction before then exploring solutions to open problems. All chapters within this second edition have been reworked and updated, with several completely new chapters on compactifications and number theory. Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician will be accessible to both experts and non-experts, and will ultimately provide many new and helpful insights into the enterprise of mathematics.