This volume constitutes the proceedings of a conference on functional analysis and its applications, which took place in India during December 1996. Topics include topological vector spaces, Banach algebras, meromorphic functions, partial differential equations, variational equations and inequalities, optimization, wavelets, elastroplasticity, numerical integration, fractal image compression, reservoir simulation, forest management, and industrial maths.

Martin Brokate (Schonkirchen Germany) (Author) , Abul Hasan Siddiqi (Sharda University, Greater Noida, India) (Author)

Structural results; bariational methods; applications in science and industry.