Tata Lectures on Theta II

• Main Author: Mumford, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2007.
• Series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Functions of complex variables.; Partial differential equations.; Special functions.; Algebraic topology.; Physics.; Special Functions.; Algebraic Geometry.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Functions of a Complex Variable.; Algebraic Topology.; Partial Differential Equations.

The second in a series of three volumes surveying the theory of theta functions, this volume gives emphasis to the special properties of the theta functions associated with compact Riemann surfaces and how they lead to solutions of the Korteweg-de-Vries equations as well as other non-linear differen...