Transforming Talk - The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England
In recent decades, scholars have shown an increasing interest in gossips social, psychological, and literary functions. The first book-length study of medieval gossip, Transforming Talk shifts the current debate and argues that gossip functions primarily as a transformative discourse, influencing not only social interactions but also literary and religious practices. Known as jangling in Middle English, gossip was believed to corrupt parishioners, disturb the peace, and cause civil and spiritual unrest.
Concrete Functional Calculus focuses primarily on differentiability of some nonlinear operators on functions or pairs of functions. This includes composition of two functions, and the product integral, taking a matrix- or operator-valued coefficient function into a solution of a system of linear differential equations with the given coefficients. In this book existence and uniqueness of solutions are proved under suitable assumptions for nonlinear integral equations with respect to possibly discontinuous functions having unbounded variation. Key features and topics: Extensive usage of p-variation of functions, and applications to stochastic processes.
The Theory of holomorphic functions of several complex variables is undergoing rapid developments. An important aspect of this developmnet is the study of zero sets of functions which are of great importance in algebraic and differential geometry and related areas. This is the first book to be published in which zero sets of holomorphic functions of several complex variables are studied from a geometric point of view.
From the table of contents: Review of Functions; Rational Functions; Elementary Trigonometry; Graphing Trigonometric Functions; Trigonometric Identities; Advanced Trigonometric Concepts; Triangle Trigonometry; Selected Answers to the Exercises.
Clear explanations, an uncluttered and appealing layout, and examples and exercises featuring a variety of real-life applications have made this text popular among students year after year. This latest edition of Swokowski and Cole's PRECALCULUS: FUNCTIONS AND GRAPHS retains these features. The problems have been consistently praised for being at just the right level for precalculus students like you.
