Spectral methods are well-suited to solve problems modeled by time-dependent partial differential equations: they are fast, efficient and accurate and widely used by mathematicians and practitioners. This class-tested 2007 introduction, the first on the subject, is ideal for graduate courses, or self-study. The authors describe the basic theory of spectral methods, allowing the reader to understand the techniques through numerous examples as well as more rigorous developments. They provide a detailed treatment of methods based on Fourier expansions and orthogonal polynomials (including discussions of stability, boundary conditions, filtering, and the extension from the linear to the nonlinear situation). Computational solution techniques for integration in time are dealt with by Runge-Kutta type methods. Several chapters are devoted to material not previously covered in book form, including stability theory for polynomial methods, techniques for problems with discontinuous solutions, round-off errors and the formulation of spectral methods on general grids. These will be especially helpful for practitioners.

Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Problems (Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Series Number 21)

Science & Math

David Gottlieb

Jan S. Hesthaven

Sigal Gottlieb

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

When a Buddhist-practicing Jew begins searching for his Jewish roots, he develops an ongoing correspondence with esteemed educator, Rabbi Akiva Tatz. This book is the collection of their fascinating, immensely informative correspondence, beginning from the first, tentative, opening letter, through some lofty, soul-searching conclusions. Topics explored include: silence, simplicity and complexity, ego and obedience, belief, idolatry, obligation--ancient and modern, and so many more. An intellectually stimulating, intensely fascinating book full of extremely thought-provoking questions--and brilliant answers.

Letters to a Buddhist Jew

AKIVA TATZ

Targum

Cultural Writing. Letters. Jewish studies. Buddhist studies. LETTERS TO A BUDDHIST JEW is a collection of letters between a Jew drawn to Buddhism and an Orthodox rabbi. "In this extraordinary exchange, David Gottlieb, speaking from a Zen perspective, pinpoints the critical questions modern Jews are moved to ask of their tradition, and Akiva Tatz, with kindness, patience and consummate skill, answers with the voice of a fully developed spiritual Judaism. This is a fascinating book: the most serious contribution in this field to date"-Zoketsu Norman Fischer, founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation. According to Jonathan Rosenblum, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, this book is "a 'must read' for any searching Jew." Gottlieb is an award-winning fiction writer and Rabbi Dr. Tatz is a physician and the founder and director of the Jerusalem Medical Ethics Forum.

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Targum Press

On July 6, 1946 the SS Josiah Wedgwood was thirty miles from the Port of Haifa. I was an eighteen-year-old crewman on that vessel, which was carrying 1,257 Holocaust survivors from camps in Italy to Palestine. Passengers and crew alike were on high alert, watching for two things: British vessels and Haifa. The British had set up a blockade of Haifa and ships caught running it were forced to return their Holocaust survivors to the same countries that had refused them entry. Our Haifa gambit ended happily. We made it into port and our ecstatic passengers disembarked to singing and cheers of Eretz! Israel! How I came to be caught up in one of the great events of the twentieth century is an improbable tale. I was not an experienced sailor, had no technical qualifications, and a lackluster past. Most of the blockade runners were Jewish veterans of World War II. Life has a way of sending me down roads I never dreamed of taking, some the last ones I would have chosen. Maybe Bashert explains it. It means destiny or what must be. Maybe it helped that I was open to life, for life has been open to me. It has sent me mostly the good, sometimes the bad, and occasionally the ugly.

Almost a Mensch, Part 2: The Pathway to Menschood - The Journey Home Begins

TotalRecall Publishing

Every Jewish boy has a bar mitzvah, the traditional rite of passage wherein the Jewish male is accepted by the Jewish community as a man. Becoming a man, however, must be differentiated from becoming a mensch. A mensch is a state of being to which many may aspire but few attain. There are no formal entrance criteria or ground rules. Being a devout, wealthy, influential, well-educated Jew is not sufficient. A mensch is a truly honest, compassionate, generous, warm and loving soul. To be a man is one thing; to be a mensch is yet another.

Almost a Mensch

Worship & Devotion

Halcyon Pr

The idea for publishing these books on the mechanism of action and on the biosynthesis of antibiotics was born of frustration in our attempts to keep abreast of the literature. Gone were the years when we were able to keep a biblio graphy on antibiotics and feel confident that we could find everything that was being published on this subject. These fields of investigation were moving for ward so rapidly and were encompassing so wide a range of specialized areas in microbiology and chemistry that it was almost impossible to keep abreast of developments. In our naivete and enthusiasm, however, we were unaware that we were toying with an idea that might enmesh us, that we were creating an entity with a life of its own, that we were letting loose a Golom who instead of being our servant would be our master. That we set up ideals for these books is obvious; they would be current guides to developments and information in the areas of mechanism of action and bio synthesis of antibiotics. For almost every subject, we wished to enlist the aid of an investigator who himself had played a part in determining the nature of the phenomena that were being discussed. One concept for the books was that they include only antibiotics for which a definitive, well-documented mechanism of action or biosynthetic pathway was known.

Mechanism of Action (Antibiotics)

Springer

Biosynthesis (Antibiotics)

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Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Problems (Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Series Number 21)

Letters to a Buddhist Jew

Letters to a Buddhist Jew

Almost a Mensch, Part 2: The Pathway to Menschood - The Journey Home Begins

Almost a Mensch

Mechanism of Action (Antibiotics)

Biosynthesis (Antibiotics)