Download or read book Progress In Nonlinear Analysis - Proceedings Of The Second International Conference On Nonlinear Analysis written by Kung-ching Chang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-07-24 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real world is complicated, as a result of which most mathematical models arising from mechanics, physics, chemistry and biology are nonlinear. Based on the efforts of scientists in the 20th century, especially in the last three decades, topological, variational, geometrical and other methods have developed rapidly in nonlinear analysis, which made direct studies of nonlinear models possible in many cases, and provided global information on nonlinear problems which was not available by the traditional linearization method. This volume reflects that rapid development in many areas of nonlinear analysis.