Jean Leray is one of the great French mathematicians of this century. His life's work divides into 3 major areas, reflected in these 3 volumes. Vol. 1, to which an Introduction in English has been contributed by A. Borel, covers Leray's seminal work in algebraic topology, where he created sheaf theory and discovered the spectral sequences. Vol. 2, with an introduction by P. Lax, covers fluid mechanics and PDE: Leray demonstrated the existence of the infinite-time extension of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations; 60 years later this profound work has retained all its impact. Vol. 3, on the theory of several complex variables, has a long introduction by G. Henkin. Leray's work on the ramified Cauchy problem will stand for centuries alongside the Cauchy-Kovalevska theorem for the unramified case.
- ISBN10 3540609490
- ISBN13 9783540609490
- Publish Date 8 January 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 June 2015
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
- Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Edition 1998 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 516
- Language English