Ivar Ekeland

CONTACT INFORMATION VITAE BOOKS, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER RESEARCH PAPERS, GROUPED BY THEMES RESEARCH PAPERS, CHRONOLOGICAL LECTURE NOTES RECENT CONFERENCES

 

E-MAIL   ekeland at math.ubc.ca,  ekeland at ceremade.dauphine.fr




BOOKS, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

1. " Théorie des jeux et introduction à l'économie mathématique", Presses Universitaires de France, 110p




2 (with R. Temam) "Analyse convexe et problèmes variationnels", Dunod-Gauthier-Villars, 1974, 340p.


• English translation: "Convex analysis and variational problems", North-Holland-Elsevier, 1976;
• republished by SIAM, "Classics in Applied mathematics", 1999
  
• Russian translation: Mir,1979. [cover]
  




3. "Elements d'économie mathématique", Hermann, 1979, 320p. [cover] [ back]


• Russian translation: Mir, 1983. [cover]
  




4. (with T. Turnbull) "Infinite-dimensional optimization and convexity", Chicago University Press, 1983 [cover]



5. (with J.P. Aubin) "Applied nonlinear analysis", Wiley, 1984,520p. [cover]


• republished by Wiley,
  
• Russian translation, editions Mir, 1988 [cover]
  

6. "Le calcul, l'imprévu. Les figures du temps de Képler à Thom", Editions du Seuil, 1984, 170p;


•  second edition, 1985; [cover] [back]
  
• pocket edition, collection "Points Science",1987.
• Italian translation : "Il calcolo, l'imprevisto" , Edizioni di Comunità, 1986
• German translation : "Das Vorhersehbare und das Unvorhersehbare“ , Harnack, München, 1985 [cover] [back]
  
• Portuguese translation (Brazil): "O calculo e o imprevisto", Martin Fontes, São Paulo, 1986 [cover]
  
• English translation : "Mathematics and the unexpected", Chicago University Press, 1988 [cover] [back]
  
• Spanish translation: "El calculo, lo imprevisto",  Fondo de cultura economica, Mexico, 1988
• Finnish translation "Ennakoimattoman matematiikka", Art House, Helsinki, 1990
• Portuguese translation (Portugal): "A matematica e o imprevisto", Gradiva, Lisbon, 1993
• Greek translation: "Ta mathematika kai to aprosdoketo", Diaulos, Athènes, 1993
• Chinese translation: "Jisuan churen yiliao", Beijing, 1999

7."Convexity methods in Hamiltonian mechanics", Springer-Verlag, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 3.Folge, Band 19, 1990, 246 p. [cover]


• see Erratum (corrections) here
  





8. "Au hasard. La chance, la science et le monde", Editions du Seuil, collection "Science Ouverte", 1991, 200 p;


• pocket edition, collection "Points Sciences", 2000 [cover] [back]
  
• German translation: "Zufall, Glück und Chaos: mathematische Expeditionen", Carl Hanser Verlag, 1993
• Spanish translation: "Al azar: la suerte, la ciencia y el mundo", Editorial Gedisa, Barcelone, 1993
• Italian translation: "A caso: la sorte, la scienza e il mondo", Bollati Boringhieri, Turin [cover]  [back]
• English translation: "The broken dice, and other mathematical tales of chance", Chicago University Press,1993 [cover]  [back]
  
• Norwegian translation: "Tilfeldighetens spill" [cover]  [back]
  
• Japanese translation [cover]
  

9. "Le chaos", Flammarion, collection "Dominos", 1995, 128 p. [cover] [back]


• Second (augmented) edition, Le Pommier, 
• Italian translation: "Come funziona il caos", Il Saggiatore, collection "Due Punti", 1997 [cover] [back]
  
• Spanish translation: "El chaos" [cover] [back]
  
• Greek translation: "To khaos" , edition Traulos-Kostatrake, 1996
• Corean translation, Younglim Cardinal, 1997
• Polish translation: "Chaos", Domino, Katowice, 1999
• German translation: "Chaos", Domino, BLT Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1999

10. "Le meilleur des mondes possibles", Seuil, 320p. février 2000  [cover]  [back]


• Italian translation: "Il migliore dei mondi possibili", Bollati Boringhieri, collection "Saggi", 2001
• English translation, "The best of all possible worlds", Chicago University Press, [cover] [back]
  
• Finnish translation, "Paras madollisista maailmoista"[cover] [back]
  
• Japanese translation, [cover] [back]
  

11.  "Cat in Numberland", Cricket Books, Carus Publishing [cover]  [back]


• French translation: "Le Chat au pays des nombres", Editions du Pommier, 

      12.  (with P.A. Chiappori) "The economics and mathematics of aggregation: formal models of groupe behavior", Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 5 (1-2), 2009 [cover] [back]


      
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