Charles W. Groetsch Livres

Inverse problems are immensely important in modern science and technology. However, the broad mathematical issues raised by inverse problems receive scant attention in the university curriculum. This book aims to remedy this state of affairs by supplying an accessible introduction, at a modest mathematical level, to the alluring field of inverse problems. Many models of inverse problems from science and engineering are dealt with and nearly a hundred exercises, of varying difficulty, involving mathematical analysis, numerical treatment, or modelling of inverse problems, are provided. The main themes of the book are: causation problem modeled as integral equations; model identification problems, posed as coefficient determination problems in differential equations; the functional analytic framework for inverse problems; and a survey of the principal numerical methods for inverse problems. An extensive annotated bibliography furnishes leads on the history of inverse problems and a guide to the frontiers of current research.

This book teams up the spectral theory of bounded linear operators with von Neumann’s theory of unbounded operators to provide a framework for the study of stable methods for the evaluation of unbounded operators. The text presents numerous illustrations of unbounded linear operators that arise in various inverse problems of mathematical physics. It also offers an extensive exposition of background material from the theory of operators on Hilbert space.