Inverse Problems for Electrical Networks

This invaluable book contains 19 papers selected from those submitted to a conference held in Hong Kong in July 2000 to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Steve Smale. It may be regarded as a continuation of the proceedings of SMALEFEST 1990 ("From Topology to Computation") held in Berkeley, USA, 10 years before, but with the focus on the area in which Smale worked more intensively during the '90's, namely the foundations of computational mathematics 1. Introduction -- 2. Circular Planar Graphs -- 3. Resistor Networks -- 4. Harmonic Functions -- 5. Characterization I -- 6. Adjoining Edges -- 7. Characterization II -- 8. Medial Graphs -- 9. Recovering a Graph -- 10. Layered Networks