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UNINA9910457788803321 |
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Titolo |
From Earth-bound to satellite [[electronic resource] ] : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.] |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 |
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1-283-33470-4 |
9786613334701 |
90-04-21461-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Collana |
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History of science and medicine library ; ; v. 23 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Telescopes - History |
Astronomical instruments - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Galileo’s Shopping List: An Overlooked Document about Early Telescope Making / Giorgio Strano -- Johann Wiesel’s Telescopes and his Clientele / Inge Keil -- The ‘Invisible Technician’ Made Visible: Telescope Making in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Huib J. Zuidervaart -- The Art of Polishing: Practice and Prose in Eighteenth-century Telescope Making / Jim A. Bennett -- Networks of Telescope Makers and the Evolution of Skill: Evidence from Observatory and Museum Collections / Gloria Clifton -- Scoping Longitude: Optical Designs for Navigation at Sea / Richard Dunn -- Following the Stars: Clockwork for Telescopes in the Nineteenth Century / James Caplan -- Telescopes Made in Berlin: From Carl Bamberg to Askania / Gudrun Wolfschmidt -- Wide-Field Photographic Telescopes: The Yale, Harvard and Harvard/Smithsonian Meteor and Satellite Camera Networks / Teasel Muir-Harmony , David H. DeVorkin and Peter Abrahams -- The Making of Space Astronomy: A Gift of the Cold War / Robert W. Smith -- General Index -- Colour Plates I–XIII. |
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The volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescope. From its Renaissance beginnings to |
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yesterday’s Cold War, the essays contributed here throw a spotlight on a number of significant episodes in the continuing adventures of this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe. Drawn from various conferences held by the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science between 2007 and 2009, these papers make a substantial contribution to our current knowledge about this fascinating optical instrument. |
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UNINA9910783114203321 |
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Autore |
Paulsen Vern I. <1951-> |
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Completely bounded maps and operator algebras / / Vern Paulsen [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-13453-6 |
1-280-42008-1 |
9786610420087 |
1-139-14839-7 |
0-511-16960-4 |
0-511-05470-X |
0-511-30273-8 |
0-511-54663-7 |
0-511-06949-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics ; ; 78 |
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Disciplina |
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Operator algebras |
Dilation theory (Operator theory) |
Mappings (Mathematics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Positive Maps -- 3. Completely Positive Maps -- |
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4. Dilation Theorems -- 5. Commuting Contractions on Hilbert Space -- 6. Completely Positive Maps into M[subscript n] -- 7. Arveson's Extension Theorems -- 8. Completely Bounded Maps -- 9. Completely Bounded Homomorphisms -- 10. Polynomially Bounded and Power-Bounded Operators -- 11. Applications to K-Spectral Sets -- 12. Tensor Products and Joint Spectral Sets -- 13. Abstract Characterizations of Operator Systems and Operator Spaces -- 14. An Operator Space Bestiary -- 15. Injective Envelopes -- 16. Abstract Operator Algebras -- 17. Completely Bounded Multilinear Maps and the Haagerup Tensor Norm -- 18. Universal Operator Algebras and Factorization -- 19. Similarity and Factorization. |
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In this book, first published in 2003, the reader is provided with a tour of the principal results and ideas in the theories of completely positive maps, completely bounded maps, dilation theory, operator spaces and operator algebras, together with some of their main applications. The author assumes only that the reader has a basic background in functional analysis, and the presentation is self-contained and paced appropriately for graduate students new to the subject. Experts will also want this book for their library since the author illustrates the power of methods he has developed with new and simpler proofs of some of the major results in the area, many of which have not appeared earlier in the literature. An indispensable introduction to the theory of operator spaces for all who want to know more. |
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