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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Front Matter
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Cauchy’s Functional Equation and Jensen’s Inequality
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Front Matter
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Related Topics
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Front Matter
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About this book
Marek Kuczma was born in 1935 in Katowice, Poland, and died there in 1991.
After finishing high school in his home town, he studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He defended his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Stanislaw Golab. In the year of his habilitation, in 1963, he obtained a position at the Katowice branch of the Jagiellonian University (now University of Silesia, Katowice), and worked there till his death.
Besides his several administrative positions and his outstanding teaching activity, he accomplished excellent and rich scientific work publishing three monographs and 180 scientific papers.
He is considered to be the founder of the celebrated Polish school of functional equations and inequalities.
"The second half of the title of this book describes its contents adequately. Probably even the most devoted specialist would not have thought that about 300 pages can be written just about the Cauchy equation (and on some closely related equations and inequalities). And the book is by no means chatty, and does not even claim completeness. Part I lists the required preliminary knowledge in set and measure theory, topology and algebra. Part II gives details on solutions of the Cauchy equation and of the Jensen inequality [...], in particular on continuous convex functions, Hamel bases, on inequalities following from the Jensen inequality [...]. Part III deals with related equations and inequalities (in particular, Pexider, Hosszú, and conditional equations, derivations, convex functions of higher order, subadditive functions and stability theorems). It concludes with an excursion into the field of extensions of homomorphisms in general." (Janos Aczel, Mathematical Reviews)
"This book is a real holiday for all the mathematicians independently of their strict speciality. One can imagine what deliciousness represents this book for functional equationists." (B. Crstici, Zentralblatt fürMathematik)
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Attila Gilányi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to the Theory of Functional Equations and Inequalities
Book Subtitle: Cauchy's Equation and Jensen's Inequality
Authors: Marek Kuczma
Editors: Attila Gilányi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8749-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8748-8Published: 10 December 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8749-5Published: 12 March 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 595
Additional Information: Originally published by University of Silesia, Warsaw, 1985
Topics: Analysis