This book introduces the basic concepts of real and functional analysis. It presents the fundamentals of the calculus of variations, convex analysis, duality, and optimization that are necessary to develop applications to physics and engineering problems. The book includes intro…
"Yakir Aharonov is one of the leading figures in the foundations of quantum physics. His contributions range from the celebrated Aharonov-Bohm effect (1959), to the more recent theory of weak measurements (whose experimental confirmations were recently ranked as the two most imp…
A Short History of the Perception of Robots and Automata from Antiquity to Modern Times -- Designing Social Robots at Scales Beyond the Humanoid -- A Study on Robot-Initiated Interaction: Toward Virtual Social Behavior -- The Role of Gesture in Social Telepresence Robots -- A Sc…
