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Assembles the papers of Ellis Kolchin, co-creator of differential algebra, and offers commentaries on the history of differential algebra and on Kolchin's work and mathematical legacy. Commentaries discuss the differential Galois theory in the context of Kolchin's interest in the theory of algebraic groups, recent work on the calculation of differential Galois groups, the origins of Kolchin's thought, important developments in differential algebra, and work in differential algebraic groups and Diophantine geometry. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Assembles the papers of Ellis Kolchin, co-creator of differential algebra, and offers commentaries on the history of differential algebra and on Kolchin's work and mathematical legacy. Commentaries discuss the differential Galois theory in the context of Kolchin's interest in the theory of algebraic groups, recent work on the calculation of differential Galois groups, the origins of Kolchin's thought, important developments in differential algebra, and work in differential algebraic groups and Diophantine geometry. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropologist Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis demonstrates that American history is best understood as a contest between five rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism, and autonomous hermitude.

This book argues that the primacy of the market in celebrity obsessed culture reveals a new variety of African American celebrities to be unreliable indicators of Black America.

This new set of original case studies is designed to offer an empirical counterpart to Cultural Theory (Westview, 1990 ), the landmark statement of political culture theory authored by Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky, and to extend and challenge the analysis developed there. Here, the theoretical concepts laid out in that book