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Ergodic Theorems for Group Actions : Informational and Thermodynamical Aspects

Part of the Mathematics and Its Applications series
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Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences_ Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics ...'; 'One service logic has rendered com- puter science .. :; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics ...'.

All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'etre of this series.

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Product Details
Springer
0792317173 / 9780792317173
Hardback
512.55
31/05/1992
Netherlands
399 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 399 p. 1 illus.
155 x 235 mm