Universitext
Series Editors:
Sheldon Axler
San Francisco State University
Vincenzo Capasso
Università degli Studi di Milano
Carles Casacuberta
Universitat de Barcelona
Angus MacIntyre
Queen Mary University of London
Kenneth Ribet
University of California, Berkeley
Claude Sabbah
CNRS, École Polytechnique, Paris
Endre Süli
University of Oxford
Wojbor A. Woyczynski
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Universitext is a series of textbooks that presents material from a wide variety of mathematical
disciplines at master’s level and beyond. The books, often well class-tested by their author,
may have an informal, personal, even experimental approach to their subject matter. Some of
the most successful and established books in the series have evolved through several editions,
always following the evolution of teaching curricula, into very polished texts.
Thus as research topics trickle down into graduate-level teaching, first textbooks written for
new, cutting-edge courses may make their way into Universitext.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/223
Series Editors:
Sheldon Axler
San Francisco State University
Vincenzo Capasso
Università degli Studi di Milano
Carles Casacuberta
Universitat de Barcelona
Angus MacIntyre
Queen Mary University of London
Kenneth Ribet
University of California, Berkeley
Claude Sabbah
CNRS, École Polytechnique, Paris
Endre Süli
University of Oxford
Wojbor A. Woyczynski
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Universitext is a series of textbooks that presents material from a wide variety of mathematical
disciplines at master’s level and beyond. The books, often well class-tested by their author,
may have an informal, personal, even experimental approach to their subject matter. Some of
the most successful and established books in the series have evolved through several editions,
always following the evolution of teaching curricula, into very polished texts.
Thus as research topics trickle down into graduate-level teaching, first textbooks written for
new, cutting-edge courses may make their way into Universitext.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/223