1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911144707403321

Autore

West-Pavlov Russell <1964->

Titolo

Temporalities / / Russell West-Pavlov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25993-7

1-136-25994-5

0-203-10687-3

1-283-86190-9

9780203106877

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

New critical idiom

Classificazione

LIT000000

Disciplina

809/.93384

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Time in literature

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's preface; Introduction; 1 Time-keeping; 2 Philosophies of time; 3 Histories; 4 Language and discourse; 5 Gender and subjectivity; 6 Economics; 7 Postmodern temporalities; 8 Postcolonial temporalities; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of temporality across a range of disciplines. The author explores temporality's relationship with a diverse range of related concepts, including: - historiography - psychology - gender - economics - postmodernism - postcolonialism. Russell West-Pavlov examines time as a crucial part of the critical theories of Newton, Freud, Ricoeur, Benjamin, and explores the treatment of time in a broad range of texts, ranging from the writings of St. Augustine and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, to Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. This comprehensive and accessible guide establishes temporality as an essential theme within literary and



cultural studies today"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911150574303321

Autore

LeVeque Randall J

Titolo

Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws / / by Randall J. LeVeque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : Birkhäuser Basel : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 1992

ISBN

3-0348-8629-2

Edizione

[2nd ed. 1992.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 220 p. 4 illus.)

Collana

Lectures in Mathematics. ETH Zürich

Classificazione

65Mxx

35L65

Disciplina

515/.353

Soggetti

Mathematics - Data processing

Mathematical analysis

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

Analysis

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.

Nota di contenuto

I Mathematical Theory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Derivation of Conservation Laws -- 3 Scalar Conservation Laws -- 4 Some Scalar Examples -- 5 Some Nonlinear Systems -- 6 Linear Hyperbolic Systems 58 -- 7 Shocks and the Hugoniot Locus -- 8 Rarefaction Waves and Integral Curves -- 9 The Riemann problem for the Euler equations -- II Numerical Methods -- 10 Numerical Methods for Linear Equations -- 11 Computing Discontinuous Solutions -- 12 Conservative Methods for Nonlinear Problems -- 13 Godunov’s Method -- 14 Approximate Riemann Solvers -- 15 Nonlinear Stability -- 16 High Resolution Methods -- 17 Semi-discrete Methods -- 18 Multidimensional Problems.

Sommario/riassunto

These notes developed from a course on the numerical solution of conservation laws first taught at the University of Washington in the fall of 1988 and then at ETH during the following spring. The overall emphasis is on studying the mathematical tools that are essential in de­ veloping, analyzing, and successfully using numerical methods for nonlinear systems of conservation laws, particularly for problems



involving shock waves. A reasonable un­ derstanding of the mathematical structure of these equations and their solutions is first required, and Part I of these notes deals with this theory. Part II deals more directly with numerical methods, again with the emphasis on general tools that are of broad use. I have stressed the underlying ideas used in various classes of methods rather than present­ ing the most sophisticated methods in great detail. My aim was to provide a sufficient background that students could then approach the current research literature with the necessary tools and understanding. Without the wonders of TeX and LaTeX, these notes would never have been put together. The professional-looking results perhaps obscure the fact that these are indeed lecture notes. Some sections have been reworked several times by now, but others are still preliminary. I can only hope that the errors are. not too blatant. Moreover, the breadth and depth of coverage was limited by the length of these courses, and some parts are rather sketchy.