文档介绍：Progress in Mathematics
Volume 272
Series Editors
H. Bass
J. Oesterlé
A. Weinstein
Luis Barreira
Dimension and
Recurrence in
Hyperbolic Dynamics
Birkhäuser
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Author:
Luis Barreira
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior ico
1049-001 Lisboa
Portugal
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2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 37-02, 37C45, 37Dxx, 37Axx
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008929876
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Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912–1967) was a self-
taught Catalan mathematician who, in spite of a
serious physicaldisability,wasvery active in research
in classical mathematical analysis, an area in which
he acquired international recognition. His heirs cre-
ated the Fundacio´ Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer inside
the Institut d’Estudis Catalans to honor the memory
of Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer and to promote mathe-
matical research.
Each year, the Fundaci´o Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer
and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans award an in-
ternational research prize for a mathematicalmono-
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