1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794005003321

Autore

Petrera Matteo

Titolo

Dynamical systems and classical mechanics : lecture notes / / Matteo Petrera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Logos Verlag, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-8325-8741-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Collana

Mathematical Physics ; ; 1

Disciplina

515.352

Soggetti

Differentiable dynamical systems

Lagrange equations

Hamiltonian systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

PublicationDate: 20131210

Sommario/riassunto

Long description: These Lecture Notes provide an introduction to the theory of finite-dimensional  dynamical systems.  The first part presents the main classical results about continuous time dynamical systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom. Among the topics covered are: initial value problems, geometrical methods in the theory of ordinary differential equations, stability theory, aspects of local bifurcation theory.   The second part is devoted to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of finite-dimensional dynamical systems, both on Euclidean spaces and smooth manifolds. The main topics are: variational formulation of Newtonian mechanics, canonical Hamiltonian mechanics, theory of canonical transformations, introduction to mechanics on Poisson and symplectic manifolds.  The material is presented in a way that is at once intuitive, systematic and mathematically rigorous. The theoretical part is supplemented with many concrete examples and exercises.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792703803321

Autore

Cravez Pamela

Titolo

The Biggest Damned Hat : Tales from Alaska's Territorial Lawyers and Judges / / Pamela Cravez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Alaska Press

Fairbanks, AK : , [2017]

ISBN

1-60223-318-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Disciplina

349.798

Soggetti

Lawyers

Law

Law - Alaska

Lawyers - Alaska

Law - Alaska - History

History

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Alaska

Alaska History 1867-1959

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Three lucky Swedes and one corrupt judge -- Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace -- George Grigsby's biggest damned hat -- Becoming Norman Banfield -- W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist -- Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women -- Hellenthal chooses Anchorage -- Tales of the silver fox -- Judge George Folta : license to hunt -- Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district -- Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers -- Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters -- Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system -- Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight -- Nesbett's surrogate -- Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar -- More frontier stories.

Sommario/riassunto

"Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of



colorful characters--prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, then, later, laying the groundwork for statehood. [This book is a] collection of stories ranging from the gold rush to the 1950s. Built on interviews and oral histories from more than fifty lawyers who worked in Alaska before 1959, and buttressed by research into legal history, the book offers a ... portrait of law in the territory--from laying the groundwork for strong civil and criminal law to helping to secure mining and fishing rights to the Alaska Court-Bar fight, which pitted Alaska's community of lawyers against its nascent Supreme Court. Bringing to life a time long past--when some of the best lawyers had little formal legal education--[this book] fills ... a part of the story of Alaska's history."--