Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Vol.55, No:4)

This is the third and yet further updated edition of a highly regarded mathematical text. Brenner develops the basic mathematical theory of the finite element method, the most widely used technique for engineering design and analysis. Her volume formalizes basic tools that are commonly used by researchers in the field but not previously published. The book is ideal for mathematicians as well as engineers and physical scientists. It can be used for a course that provides an introduction to basic functional analysis, approximation theory, and numerical analysis, while building upon and applying basic techniques of real variable theory. This new edition is substantially updated with additional exercises throughout and new chapters on Additive Schwarz Preconditioners and Adaptive Meshes. Front Cover MacKichan Software, Inc. ad American Institute of Mathematical Sciences ad Birkhauser ad April 2008 Table of Contents Opinion, DARPA and Hilbert, Allyn Jackson Letters to the Editor AMS Bookstore ad--Mathematics and Voting Mathematics and Voting, Donald G. Saari AMS Math in the Media ad A K Peters, Ltd. ad Henri's Crystal Ball, Philip J. Davis and David Mumford Victor L. Klee, 1925--2007, Peter Gritzmann and Bernd Sturmfels WHAT IS...Property A?, Piotr Nowak and Guoliang Yu A Photographic Look at the 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego Fly Me to the Moon--A Book Review, reviewed by Shane Ross Is Mathematics Misapplied to the Environment?--A Book Review, reviewed by Christopher K. R. T. Jones Mathematics Awareness Month ad 2008 Steele Prizes 2008 Conant Prize 2008 Morgan Prize deGruyter ad 2008 Cole Prize in Number Theory 2008 Bocher Prize 2008 Doob Prize 2008 Eisenbud Prize 2008 Award for Distinguished Public Service Mathematics People Mathematics Opportunities Inside the AMS Reference and Book List Second Canada-France Congress ad Call for Nominations for Birkhoff, Cole, and Conant Prizes Call for Nominations for Morgan Prize Call for Nominations for Satter and Whiteman Prizes Mathematics Calendar New Publications Offered by the AMS 7city Learning and AMS Life Membership ads Classified Advertisements Mathematical Association of America ad Meetings & Conferences of the AMS AMS Epsilon Fund ad Meetings and Conferences of the AMS Table of Contents Cambridge University Press ad WebAssign ad Springer ad