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Author : I. Gohberg
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034886152
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Time-Variant Systems and Interpolation written by I. Gohberg and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick DeWilde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792381891
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Time-Varying Systems and Computations written by Patrick DeWilde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex function theory and linear algebra provide much of the basic mathematics needed by engineers engaged in numerical computations, signal processing or control. The transfer function of a linear time invariant system is a function of the complex vari able s or z and it is analytic in a large part of the complex plane. Many important prop erties of the system for which it is a transfer function are related to its analytic prop erties. On the other hand, engineers often encounter small and large matrices which describe (linear) maps between physically important quantities. In both cases similar mathematical and computational problems occur: operators, be they transfer functions or matrices, have to be simplified, approximated, decomposed and realized. Each field has developed theory and techniques to solve the main common problems encountered. Yet, there is a large, mysterious gap between complex function theory and numerical linear algebra. For example, complex function theory has solved the problem to find analytic functions of minimal complexity and minimal supremum norm that approxi e. g. , as optimal mate given values at strategic points in the complex plane. They serve approximants for a desired behavior of a system to be designed. No similar approxi mation theory for matrices existed until recently, except for the case where the matrix is (very) close to singular.
Author : Aristide Halanay
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034884990
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Time-Varying Discrete Linear Systems written by Aristide Halanay and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete-time systems arise as a matter of course in modelling biological or economic processes. For systems and control theory they are of major importance, particularly in connection with digital control applications. If sampling is performed in order to control periodic processes, almost periodic systems are obtained. This is a strong motivation to investigate the discrete-time systems with time-varying coefficients. This research monograph contains a study of discrete-time nodes, the discrete counterpart of the theory elaborated by Bart, Gohberg and Kaashoek for the continuous case, discrete-time Lyapunov and Riccati equations, discrete-time Hamiltonian systems in connection with input-output operators and associated Hankel and Toeplitz operators. All these tools aim to solve the problems of stabilization and attenuation of disturbances in the framework of H2- and H-control theory. The book is the first of its kind to be devoted to these topics and consists mainly of original, recently obtained results.
Author : Patrick DeWilde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475728174
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Time-Varying Systems and Computations written by Patrick DeWilde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex function theory and linear algebra provide much of the basic mathematics needed by engineers engaged in numerical computations, signal processing or control. The transfer function of a linear time invariant system is a function of the complex vari able s or z and it is analytic in a large part of the complex plane. Many important prop erties of the system for which it is a transfer function are related to its analytic prop erties. On the other hand, engineers often encounter small and large matrices which describe (linear) maps between physically important quantities. In both cases similar mathematical and computational problems occur: operators, be they transfer functions or matrices, have to be simplified, approximated, decomposed and realized. Each field has developed theory and techniques to solve the main common problems encountered. Yet, there is a large, mysterious gap between complex function theory and numerical linear algebra. For example, complex function theory has solved the problem to find analytic functions of minimal complexity and minimal supremum norm that approxi e. g. , as optimal mate given values at strategic points in the complex plane. They serve approximants for a desired behavior of a system to be designed. No similar approxi mation theory for matrices existed until recently, except for the case where the matrix is (very) close to singular.
Author : Daniel Alpay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764365233
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Operator Theory, System Theory and Related Topics written by Daniel Alpay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the Conference in Operator The ory in Honour of Moshe Livsic 80th Birthday, held June 29 to July 4, 1997, at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and at the Weizmann In stitute of Science (Rehovot, Israel). The volume contains papers in operator theory and its applications (understood in a very wide sense), many of them reflecting, 1 directly or indirectly, a profound impact of the work of Moshe Livsic. Moshe (Mikhail Samuilovich) Livsic was born on July 4, 1917, in the small town of Pokotilova near Uman, in the province of Kiev in the Ukraine; his family moved to Odessa when he was four years old. In 1933 he enrolled in the Department of Physics and Mathematics at the Odessa State University, where he became a student of M. G. Krein and an active participant in Krein's seminar - one of the centres where the ideas and methods of functional analysis and operator theory were being developed. Besides M. G. Krein, M. S. Livsic was strongly influenced B. Va. Levin, an outstanding specialist in the theory of analytic functions. A by deep understanding of operator theory as well as function theory and a penetrating search of connections between the two, were to become one of the landmarks of M. S. Livsic's work. M. S. Livsic defended his Ph. D.
Author : H. Bart
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034882831
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Operator Theory and Analysis written by H. Bart and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 12-14, 1997 a workshop was held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday ofM. A. Kaashoek. The present volume contains the proceedings of this workshop. The workshop was attended by 44 participants from all over the world: partici pants came from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine and the USA. The atmosphere at the workshop was very warm and friendly. There where 21 plenary lectures, and each lecture was followed by a lively discussion. The workshop was supported by: the Vakgroep Wiskunde of the Vrije Univer siteit, the department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Vrije Univer siteit, the Stichting VU Computer Science & Mathematics Research Centre, the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, and the department of Economics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The organizers would like to take this opportunity to express their gratitude for the support. Without it the workshop would not have been so successful as it was. Table of Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Photograph of M. A. Kaashoek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Curriculum Vitae of M. A. Kaashoek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv List of Publications of M. A. Kaashoek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix l. Gohberg Opening Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi H. Bart, A. C. M. Ran and H. I. Woerdeman Personal Reminiscences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv V. Adamyan and R. Mennicken On the Separation of Certain Spectral Components of Selfadjoint Operator Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Conditions for the Separation of Spectral Components . . . . . . . 4 3. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Author : Alle-Jan van der Veen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Time-varying System Theory and Computational Modeling written by Alle-Jan van der Veen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ciprian Foiaş
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764358891
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Metric Constrained Interpolation, Commutant Lifting, and Systems written by Ciprian Foiaş and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Interpolation And Time-Invariant Systems.- I. Interpolation Problems For Operator-Valued Functions.- 1.1. Preliminaries About Notation And Terminology.- 1.2. Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation.- 1.3. Tangential Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation.- 1.4. Controllability Operators And Interpolation.- 1.5. Tangential Hermite-Fejer Interpolation.- 1.6. The Nehari Extension Problem.- 1.7. Sarason Interpolation.- 1.8. Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation Viewed As A Sarason Problem.- 1.9. Two-Sided Nudelman Interpolation.- 1.10. The Two-Sided Sarason Problem.- 1.11. A Filtering Problem.- Notes To Chapter I.- II. Proofs Using The Commutant Lifting Theorem.- II.1. The Commutant Lifting Theorem.- II.2. Proof Of The Standard Left Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation Theorem.- II.3. Proof Of The Nehari Extension Theorem.- II.4. Proof of the Sarason Theorem.- II.5. Proof of the Two-Sided Nudelman Theorem.- II.6. Proof of the Two-Sided Sarason Theorem.- Notes to Chapter II.- III. Time Invariant Systems.- III.1. State Space Analysis.- III.2. Controllability and Observability.- III.3. Point Evaluation.- III.4. Realization Theory.- III.5. Anticausal Realizations.- III.6. Computing the Hankel form.- III.7. Computing the Projection in the Sarason Problem.- III.8. Explicit Conversion Formulas.- III.9. Connecting Nudelman and Two-Sided Sarason Problems.- III.10. Isometric and Unitary Systems.- Notes to Chapter III.- IV. Central Commutant Lifting.- IV. 1. Minimal Isometric Liftings.- IV.2. The Central Intertwining Lifting.- IV.3. Central Intertwining Lifting Formulas.- IV.4. Central Intertwining Lifting Quotient Formulas.- IV.5. The Central Schur Solution.- IV.6. The Quasi Outer Factor for D2/By.- IV.7. Maximum Entropy.- IV.8. Some Mixed Bounds for the Central Intertwining Lifting.- IV.9. A Mixed Two-Sided Sarason Result.- Notes To Chapter IV.- V. Central State Space Solutions.- V.1. The Central Formula For Nevanlinna-Pick.- V.2. Central Nevanlinna-Pick Solutions.- V.3. The Central Hermite-Fejer Solution.- V.4. The Central Formula For The Sarason Problem.- V.5. Central Nehari Solutions.- V.6. Central Nudelman Solutions.- V.7. The Central Two Block Solution.- V.8. The Four Block Problem.- Notes To Chapter V.- VI. Parameterization Of Intertwining Liftings And Its Applications.- VI.1. The Möbius Transformation.- VI.2. The Schur Parameterization.- VI.3. Recovering The Schur Contraction..- VI. 4. Constructing The Schur Contraction.- VI.5. The Redheffer Scattering Parameterization.- VI.6. The Parameterization for A ?.- VI.7. The Nevalinna-Pick Parameterization.- VI.8. The Nehari Parameterization.- VI.9. The Two Block Parameterization.- Notes To Chapter VI.- VII. Applications to Control Systems.- VII. 1. Feedback Control.- VII.2. The Youla Parameterization.- VII.3. Mixed H? and H2 Control Problems.- VII.4. A Two Block Control Problem.- VII.5. The Multivariable Case.- Notes To Chapter VII.- B Nonstationary Interpolation and Time-Varying Systems.- VIII. Nonstationary Interpolation Theorems.- VIII.1. Nonstationary Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation.- VIII.2. Nonstationary Tangential Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation.- VIII.3. Nonstationary Tangential Hermite-Fejer Interpolation.- VIII.4. Nonstationary Nehari Interpolation.- VIII.5. Nonstationary Sarason Interpolation.- VIII.6. Nonstationary Nudelman Interpolation.- VIII.7. Nonstationary Two-Sided Sarason Interpolation.- Notes to Chapter VIII.- IX. Nonstationary Systems and Point Evaluation.- IX.1. Time Varying Systems.- IX.2. Nonstationary Controllability and Observability.- IX.3. Point Evaluation.- IX.4. From Nonstationary Systems to Stationary Systems.- IX.5. A Nonstationary Filtering Problem.- Notes to Chapter IX.- X. Reduction Techniques: From Nonstationary to Stationary and Vice Versa.- X.1. Spatial Features.- X.2. Operator Features.- Notes to Chapter X.- XI. Proofs of the Nonstationary Interpolation Theorems by Reduction to the Stationary Case.- XI.1. The Standard Nonstationary Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation Theorem.- XI.2. The Nons
Author : Harry Dym
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3034804113
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Mathematical Methods in Systems, Optimization, and Control written by Harry Dym and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Bill Helton on the occasion of his sixty fifth birthday. It contains biographical material, a list of Bill's publications, a detailed survey of Bill's contributions to operator theory, optimization and control and 19 technical articles. Most of the technical articles are expository and should serve as useful introductions to many of the areas which Bill's highly original contributions have helped to shape over the last forty odd years. These include interpolation, Szegö limit theorems, Nehari problems, trace formulas, systems and control theory, convexity, matrix completion problems, linear matrix inequalities and optimization. The book should be useful to graduate students in mathematics and engineering, as well as to faculty and individuals seeking entry level introductions and references to the indicated topics. It can also serve as a supplementary text to numerous courses in pure and applied mathematics and engineering, as well as a source book for seminars.
Author : Albrecht Böttcher
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 082180457X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Lectures on Operator Theory and Its Applications written by Albrecht Böttcher and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the importance of mathematics lies in its ability to provide theories which are useful in widely different fields of endeavour. A good example is the large and amorphous body of knowledge known as the theory of linear operators or operator theory, which came to life about a century ago as a theory to encompass properties common to matrix, differential, and integral operators. Thus, it is a primary purpose of operator theory to provide a coherent body of knowledge which can explain phenomena common to the enormous variety of problems in which such linear operators play a part. The theory is a vital part of functional analysis, whose methods and techniques are one of the major advances of twentieth century mathematics and now play a pervasive role in the modeling of phenomena in probability, imaging, signal processing, systems theory, etc, as well as in the more traditional areas of theoretical physics and mechanics. This book is based on lectures presented at a meeting on operator theory and its applications held at the Fields Institute in 1994.
Author : Hoai-Nam Nguyen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319028278
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Constrained Control of Uncertain, Time-Varying, Discrete-Time Systems written by Hoai-Nam Nguyen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive development of interpolating control, this monograph demonstrates the reduced computational complexity of a ground-breaking technique compared with the established model predictive control. The text deals with the regulation problem for linear, time-invariant, discrete-time uncertain dynamical systems having polyhedral state and control constraints, with and without disturbances, and under state or output feedback. For output feedback a non-minimal state-space representation is used with old inputs and outputs as state variables. Constrained Control of Uncertain, Time-Varying, Discrete-time Systems details interpolating control in both its implicit and explicit forms. In the former at most two linear-programming or one quadratic-programming problem are solved on-line at each sampling instant to yield the value of the control variable. In the latter the control law is shown to be piecewise affine in the state, and so the state space is partitioned into polyhedral cells so that at each sampling interval the cell to which the measured state belongs must be determined. Interpolation is performed between vertex control, and a user-chosen control law in its maximal admissible set surrounding the origin. Novel proofs of recursive feasibility and asymptotic stability of the vertex control law, and of the interpolating control law are given. Algorithms for implicit and explicit interpolating control are presented in such a way that the reader may easily realize them. Each chapter includes illustrative examples, and comparisons with model predictive control in which the disparity in computational complexity is shown to be particularly in favour of interpolating control for high-order systems, and systems with uncertainty. Furthermore, the performance of the two methods proves similar except in those cases when a solution cannot be found with model predictive control at all. The book concludes with two high dimensional examples and a benchmark robust model predictive control problem: the non-isothermal continuously-stirred-tank reactor. For academic control researchers and students or for control engineers interested in implementing constrained control systems Constrained Control of Uncertain, Time-Varying, Discrete-time Systems will provide an attractive low-complexity control alternative for cases in which model predictive control is currently attempted.
Author : Roland Toth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642138128
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Modeling and Identification of Linear Parameter-Varying Systems written by Roland Toth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the past 20 years, the framework of Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems has become a promising system theoretical approach to handle the control of mildly nonlinear and especially position dependent systems which are common in mechatronic applications and in the process industry. The birth of this system class was initiated by the need of engineers to achieve better performance for nonlinear and time-varying dynamics, c- mon in many industrial applications, than what the classical framework of Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) control can provide. However, it was also a p- mary goal to preserve simplicity and “re-use” the powerful LTI results by extending them to the LPV case. The progress continued according to this philosophy and LPV control has become a well established ?eld with many promising applications. Unfortunately, modeling of LPV systems, especially based on measured data (which is called system identi?cation) has seen a limited development sincethebirthoftheframework. Currentlythisbottleneck oftheLPVfra- work is halting the transfer of the LPV theory into industrial use. Without good models that ful?ll the expectations of the users and without the und- standing how these models correspond to the dynamics of the application, it is di?cult to design high performance LPV control solutions. This book aims to bridge the gap between modeling and control by investigating the fundamental questions of LPV modeling and identi?cation. It explores the missing details of the LPV system theory that have hindered the formu- tion of a well established identi?cation framework.
Author : University of Michigan. College of Engineering
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Announcement written by University of Michigan. College of Engineering and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1958 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Langer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764360030
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book Contributions to Operator Theory in Spaces With an Indefinite Metric written by H. Langer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Heinz Langer, a leading expert in spectral analysis and its applications, in particular to operators in spaces with an indefinite metric, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The book begins with his biography and list of publications. It contains a selection of research papers, most of which are devoted to spectral analysis of operators or operator pencils with applications to ordinary and partial differential equations. Other papers deal with time-varying systems, interpolation and factorization problems, and topics from mathematical physics. About half of the papers contain further developments in the theory of operators in spaces with an indefinite metric and treat new applications. The book is of interest to a wide audience of pure and applied mathematicians.
Author : Michel Cuenod
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323162290
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book A Discrete-Time Approach for system Analysis written by Michel Cuenod and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Discrete-Time Approach for System Analysis is a five-chapter text that considers the underlying principles and application of a discrete-time approach to system analysis. Chapter 1 presents several different unit functions that are used in practice and describes how to obtain a closed form for the sequence of unit functions by using the E- and the z-transforms. This chapter also compares some aspects of spectral analysis and impulse analysis, and finally, discusses some aspects of interpolation between sampled data of the functions by impulse analysis techniques. Chapter 2 provides the functional operations using the sequences of unit functions, namely, addition, subtraction, multiplication, convolution, deconvolution, integration, and differentiation. Chapter 3 examines linear, time-varying, nonlinear and partial differential equations, and the use of the discrete time approach to solve these equations. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss several applications of impulse analysis to control problems, basically, system analysis and identification. This book is particularly useful to engineers with an introduction to some techniques for finding solutions of certain time-invariant, time-varying, and nonlinear differential equations arising in physical systems.
Author : M. A. Kaashoek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764365738
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Recent Advances in Operator Theory written by M. A. Kaashoek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 25 papers, most of which were presented, for the first time, at the International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications held in Groningen, the Netherlands, from June 30-July 3, 1998. The topics include dilation and interpolation problems, reproducing kernel spaces, numerical ranges of operators, Riccati equations, harmonic analysis, spectral theory of differential operators and analytic operator functions to scattering of waves. All papers deal with operators in Banach or Hilbert spaces, or in spaces with an indefinite metric. This volume is dedicated to Israel Gohberg, one of the founding fathers of the IWOTA worskhops and an outstanding leader in operator theory. His work had a deep influence on the field and its range of applications. The IWOTA Groningen 1998, the tenth in its series, was a good occasion for a pre-celebration of his 70th birthday. This book also contains the speeches held at the workshop dinner, a review of Israel Gohberg's contributions to mathematics and a complete list of his publications. The book is of interest to a wide audience of pure and applied mathematicians.
Author : Harm Bart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764387343
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Israel Gohberg and Friends written by Harm Bart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematicians do not work in isolation. They stand in a long and time honored tradition. They write papers and (sometimes) books, they read the publications of fellow workers in the ?eld, and they meet other mathematicians at conferences all over the world. In this way, in contact with colleagues far away and nearby, from the past (via their writings) and from the present, scienti?c results are obtained whicharerecognizedasvalid.Andthat–remarkablyenough–regardlessofethnic background, political inclination or religion. In this process, some distinguished individuals play a special and striking role. They assume a position of leadership. They guide the people working with them through uncharted territory, thereby making a lasting imprint on the ?eld. So- thing which can only be accomplished through a combination of rare talents: - usually broad knowledge, unfailing intuition and a certain kind of charisma that binds people together. AllofthisispresentinIsraelGohberg,themantowhomthisbookisdedicated,on theoccasionof his 80thbirthday.This comes to the foregroundunmistakably from the contributions from those who worked with him or whose life was a?ected by him. Gohberg’sexceptionalqualitiesarealsoapparentfromthe articleswritten by himself, sometimes jointly with others, that are reproduced in this book. Among these are stories of his life, some dealing with mathematical aspects, others of a more general nature. Also included are reminiscences paying tribute to a close colleaguewho isnotamongusanymore,speechesorreviewshighlightingthework and personality of a friend or esteemed colleague, and responses to the laudatio’s connected with the several honorary degrees that were bestowed upon him.
