The Age of Reason

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Penguin
29 June 2009

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War.

By: Jean-Paul Sartre
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 182mm, Width: 116mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9780141045573
ISBN 10: 0141045574
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 29 June 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I. One-Dimensional Variational Problems: 1. The classical theory; 2. Geodesic curves; 3. Saddle point constructions; 4. The theory of Hamilton and Jacobi; 5. Dynamic optimization; Part II. Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations: 6. Lebesgue integration theory; 7. Banach spaces; 8. Lp and Sobolev spaces; 9. The direct methods; 10. Nonconvex functionals: relaxation; 11. G-convergence; 12. BV-functionals and G-convergence: the example of Modica and Mortola; Appendix A. The coarea formula; Appendix B. The distance function from smooth hypersurfaces; 13. Bifurcation theory; 14. The Palais-Smale condition and unstable critical points of variational problems.

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This modern self-contained exposition...is an excellent textbook for graduate students and a good source of information in the calculus of variations. Mathematical Reviews