1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458399103321

Autore

Pearson Michael <1951->

Titolo

Pastoral Australia [[electronic resource] ] : fortunes, failures and hard yakka : a historical overview 1788-1967 / / Michael Pearson and Jane Lennon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Publishing in association with the Dept. of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and the Australian Heritage Council, 2010

ISBN

1-283-15637-7

9786613156372

0-643-10050-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LennonJane

Disciplina

630.994

Soggetti

Pastoral systems - Australia - History

Sheep industry - Australia - History

Wool industry - Australia - History

Cattle trade - Australia - History

Agriculture - Australia - History

Electronic books.

Australia History

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 (p. 190-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; Maps:; Boxes:; Foreword; Authors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Measurements; List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Contractions; Introduction; Chapter 1. Genesis 1788-1830; Chapter 2. Boom, Bust and Gold 1830-1860; Chapter 3. After the Gold Rush: An Evolving Industry 1860-1890; Chapter 4. Consolidation and Expansion 1860-1890; Chapter 5. Depression and Drought 1890-1915; Chapter 6. Maturity and the Golden Years 1915-1967; Centrefold: Time line of Australia's Pastoral Industry

Chapter 7. Afterglow: Pastoralism into the Twenty-firstCentury and the Heritage of Earlier CenturiesEndnotes; Bibliography; List of pastoral stations mentioned in the text; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry,how it



drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settlersociety.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484396803321

Autore

Andrews Ben

Titolo

The Ricci flow in Riemannian geometry : a complete proof of the differentiable 1/4-pinching sphere theorem / / by Ben Andrews, Christopher Hopper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg, : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010

ISBN

9783642162862

364216286X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 302 p. 13 illus., 2 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 2011

Altri autori (Persone)

HopperChristopher

Disciplina

516.3/62

Soggetti

Ricci flow

Geometry, Riemannian

Differentiable dynamical systems

Differential equations, Partial

Global differential geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Background Material -- 3 Harmonic Mappings -- 4 Evolution of the Curvature -- 5 Short-Time Existence -- 6 Uhlenbeck’s Trick -- 7 The Weak Maximum Principle -- 8 Regularity and Long-Time Existence -- 9 The Compactness Theorem for Riemannian Manifolds -- 10 The F-Functional and Gradient Flows -- 11 The W-Functional and Local Noncollapsing -- 12 An Algebraic Identity for Curvature Operators -- 13 The Cone Construction of Böhm and Wilking -- 14 Preserving Positive Isotropic Curvature -- 15 The Final Argument.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on Hamilton's Ricci flow, beginning with a detailed discussion of the required aspects of differential geometry, progressing through existence and regularity theory, compactness theorems for Riemannian manifolds, and Perelman's noncollapsing results, and culminating in a detailed analysis of the evolution of curvature, where



recent breakthroughs of Böhm and Wilking and Brendle and Schoen have led to a proof of the differentiable 1/4-pinching sphere theorem.