1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007548960403321

Autore

Bradford, Ernle <1922-1986>

Titolo

The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands / Ernle Bradford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Collins, ©1963

Descrizione fisica

288 p., [8] c. di ill. : ill. ; 19 cm

Collana

The Companion Guides

Locazione

ILFGE

Collocazione

H-04-137

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974650803321

Autore

Glennon Robert Jerome <1944->

Titolo

Unquenchable : America's water crisis and what to do about it / / Robert Glennon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington [D.C.], : Island Press, c2009

ISBN

9781597266390

1597266396

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 p.)

Disciplina

363.6/10973

Soggetti

Water-supply - United States

Droughts - United States

Water consumption - United States - Forecasting

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 (p. 341-400) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. The Crisis. 1. Atlanta's prayer for water -- 2. Wealth and the culture of water consumption -- 3. Our thirst for energy --4. Fouling



our own nests -- 5. The crisis masked -- Part II. Real and surreal solutions. 6. Business as usual -- 7. Water alchemists -- 8. The ancient mariner's lament -- 9. Shall we drink pee? -- 10. Creative conservation -- 11. Water harvesting -- 12. Moore's law -- Part III. A new approach. 13. The enigma of the water closet -- 14. The diamond-water paradox -- 15. The steel deal -- 16. Privatization of water -- 17. Take the money and run -- 18. The future of farming -- 19. Environmental transfers -- 20. The buffalo's lament -- Conclusion : a blue print for reform -- Epilogue : The Salton Sea.

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Glennon, author of Water Follies, captures the irony--and tragedy--of America's water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From manufactured snow for tourists in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of water flushed down the toilet each year, Unquenchable reveals the heady extravagances and everyday inefficiencies that are sucking the nation dry.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910988291103321

Autore

Geiss Hannah

Titolo

Measure, Probability and Functional Analysis / / by Hannah Geiss, Stefan Geiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9783031840678

3031840674

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (834 pages)

Collana

Universitext, , 2191-6675

Altri autori (Persone)

GeissStefan

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Probabilities

Functional analysis

Measure theory

Probability Theory

Functional Analysis

Measure and Integration

Probabilitats

Anàlisi funcional

Teoria de la mesura

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

- 1. Introduction – with two examples -- 2. Measure spaces and probability spaces -- 3. Construction of measure spaces -- 4. *Metric and Banach spaces -- 5. *Measures on metric spaces -- 6. Random variables and measurable maps -- 7. Independence -- 8. Integration -- 9. Convergence of random variables -- 10. The theorem of Radon-Nikodym and conditional expectation -- 11. Fourier transform and Gaussian distributions -- 12. Weak convergence -- 13. Strong law of large numbers -- 14. An ergodic theorem -- 15. Limit theorems for weak convergence -- 16. Fourier inversion formulas -- 17. Norm estimates for the Fourier transform -- 18. Riesz representation theorems -- 19. Banach function spaces -- 20. Probability in Banach spaces -- 21. Law of iterated logarithm -- 22. An application to non-life insurance.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook offers a self-contained introduction to probability, covering all topics required for further study in stochastic processes and stochastic analysis, as well as some advanced topics at the interface between probability and functional analysis. The initial chapters provide a rigorous introduction to measure theory, with a special focus on probability spaces. Next, Lebesgue integration theory is developed in full detail covering the main methods and statements, followed by the important limit theorems of probability. Advanced limit theorems, such as the Berry-Esseen Theorem and Stein’s method, are included. The final part of the book explores interactions between probability and functional analysis. It includes an introduction to Banach function spaces, such as Lorentz and Orlicz spaces, and to random variables with values in Banach spaces. The Itô–Nisio Theorem, the Strong Law of Large Numbers in Banach spaces, and the Bochner, Pettis, and Dunford integrals are presented. As an application, Brownian motion is rigorously constructed and investigated using Banach function space methods. Based on courses taught by the authors, this book can serve as the main text for a graduate-level course on probability, and each chapter contains a collection of exercises. The unique combination of probability and functional analysis, as well as the advanced and original topics included, will also appeal to researchers working in probability and related fields.