Within Europe a number of academic groups have accepted their responsibility towards European industry and have proposed to found a European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) as an expression of this responsibility. One of the activities of ECMI is the publication of books, which reflect its general philosophy; the texts of the series will help in promoting the use of mathematics in industry and in educating mathematicians for industry. They will consider different fields of applications, present casestudies, i'ntroduce new mathematical concepts in their (elation to practical applications. They shall also represent the variety of the European mathematical traditions, for example practical asymptotics and differential equations in Britian, sophisticated numerical analysis from France, powerful computation in Germany, novel discrete mathematics in Holland, elegant real analysis from Italy. They will demonstrate that all these branches of mathematics are applicable to real problems, and industry and universities in any country can clearly benefit from the skills of the complete range of European applied mathematics. All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced by any means, or transmitted, or translated into a machine language without the written permission of the publisher.Cover design by Peter Pfitz Stuttgart.

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