1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450752703321

Titolo

New perspectives on partnership [[electronic resource] /] / guest editors Martin Laffin and Joyce Liddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006

ISBN

1-280-54728-6

9786610547289

1-84544-975-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (68 p.)

Collana

International Journal of Public Sector Management ; ; v.19, no. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

LaffinMartin

LiddleJoyce

Disciplina

346.41/0682

Soggetti

Government business enterprises

Partnership

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; New perspectives on partnership; The distinctiveness of the Welsh partnership agenda; From partition to partnership; Partnership and statutory local governance in a devolved Scotland; Partnership meets politics: managing within the maze; Au revoir to partnerships: what's next ?; Call for papers

Sommario/riassunto

In the UK 'partnership' has emerged as a central theme in New Labour policy. The present government has seen the formation of partnerships as fundamental to its public sector reform programme across wide areas of public policy - especially in the management of regeneration projects, the improvement of coordination across health and other agencies, and the finance and management of large public sector projects. Yet major uncertainties persist over the definition of 'partnership' and the evaluation of partnership initiatives among both policy makers and researchers. This e-book looks is based on



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462699403321

Autore

Tzanakis Nikos <1952->

Titolo

Elliptic diophantine equations / / by Nikos Tzanakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-11-028114-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter Series in Discrete Mathematics and Applications ; ; 2

Disciplina

512.7/2

Soggetti

Diophantine equations

Elliptic functions

Electronic books.

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

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Elliptic curves and equations -- Chapter 2 Heights -- Chapter 3 Weierstrass equations over C and R -- Chapter 4 The elliptic logarithm method -- Chapter 5 Linear form for the Weierstrass equation -- Chapter 6 Linear form for the quartic equation -- Chapter 7 Linear form for simultaneous Pell equations -- Chapter 8 Linear form for the general elliptic equation -- Chapter 9 Bound for the coefficients of the linear form -- Chapter 10 Reducing the bound obtained in Chapter 9 -- Chapter 11 S-integer solutions of Weierstrass equations -- List of symbols -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents in a unified and concrete way the beautiful and deep mathematics - both theoretical and computational - on which the explicit solution of an elliptic Diophantine equation is based. It collects numerous results and methods that are scattered in the literature. Some results are hidden behind a number of routines in software packages, like Magma and Maple; professional mathematicians very often use these routines just as a black-box, having little idea about the mathematical treasure behind them. Almost 20 years have passed since the first publications on the explicit solution of elliptic Diophantine equations with the use of elliptic logarithms. The "art" of solving this type of equation has now reached its full maturity. The



author is one of the main persons that contributed to the development of this art.  The monograph presents a well-balanced combination of a variety of theoretical tools (from Diophantine geometry, algebraic number theory, theory of linear forms in logarithms of various forms - real/complex and p-adic elliptic - and classical complex analysis), clever computational methods and techniques (LLL algorithm and de Weger's reduction technique, AGM algorithm, Zagier's technique for computing elliptic integrals), ready-to-use computer packages. A result is the solution in practice of a large general class of Diophantine equations.