This is a reprinting of a book originally published in 1978. At that time it was the first book on
the subject of homogenization, which is the asymptotic analysis of partial differential …

… George Nicholas Papanicolaou was a pioneer in elucidating the physiology and
cytologic characteristics of the female reproductive system. He is best known for creating the …

One of the factors probably responsible for this rather discouraging situation is the fact that,
despite the progress in methods of treatment, no significant improvement has been achieved …

The phenomenon of super-resolution in time-reversal acoustics is analyzed theoretically and
with numerical simulations. A signal that is recorded and then retransmitted by an array of …

In the struggle to control cancer, knowledge of the many phases of the disease process as
well as the ability to recognize it in its early stages has been so inadequate that the …

diagnosis was confirmed by biopsy (21 cases) or clin- SCIENCE 519 Page 1 MAY 18, 1945
URINE SEDIMENT SMEARS AS A DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE IN CANCERS OF THE …

Our motivation for writing this book is twofold: First, the theory of waves propagating in
randomly layered media has been studied extensively during the last thirty years but the results …

Recombination, together with mutation, gives rise to genetic variation in populations. Here we
leverage the recent mixture of people of African and European ancestry in the Americas to …

The mathematical theory of stochastic differential equations is concerned almost exclusively
with the study of Ito equations and the associated Markov processes. This theory has found …

This important work addresses problems in financial mathematics of pricing and hedging
derivative securities in an environment of uncertain and changing market volatility. These …