Bücher von Elliott H. Lieb

This is the third Selecta of publications of Elliott Lieb, the first two being Stabil ity of Matter: From Atoms to Stars, edited by Walter Thirring, and Inequalities, edited by Michael Loss and Mary Beth Ruskai.

The book provides apedagogical entry into an active area of ongoing research for bothgraduate students and researchers. It is an outgrowth of a coursegiven by the authors for graduate students and post-doctoralresearchers at the Oberwolfach Research Institute in 2004.

Inequalities play a fundamental role in Functional Analysis and it is widely recognized that finding them, especially sharp estimates, is an art. Together with the mathematical proofs the author also presents numerous applications to the calculus of variations and to many problems of quantum physics, in particular to atomic physics.