Associative Functions: Triangular Norms And Copulas - Hardcover

Alsina, Claudi; Maurice, Frank; Schweizer, Berthold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812566716 ISBN 13: 9789812566713

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The functional equation of associativity is the topic of Abel's first contribution to Crelle's Journal. Seventy years later, it was featured as the second part of Hilbert's Fifth Problem, and it was solved under successively weaker hypotheses by Brouwer (1909), Cartan (1930) and Aczel (1949). In 1958, B Schweizer and A Sklar showed that the “triangular norms” introduced by Menger in his definition of a probabilistic metric space should be associative; and in their book Probabilistic Metric Spaces, they presented the basic properties of such triangular norms and the closely related copulas. Since then, the study of these two classes of functions has been evolving at an ever-increasing pace and the results have been applied in fields such as statistics, information theory, fuzzy set theory, multi-valued and quantum logic, hydrology, and economics, in particular, risk analysis.This book presents the foundations of the subject of associative functions on real intervals. It brings together results that have been widely scattered in the literature and adds much new material. In the process, virtually all the standard techniques for solving functional equations in one and several variables come into play. Thus, the book can serve as an advanced undergraduate or graduate text on functional equations.

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... well-written and very readable book. -- Zentralblatt MATH

This is a marvelous book! -- Mathematical Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812566716
• ISBN 13: 9789812566713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252