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With the aid of Fourier-Mellin transforms as a tool in analysis, the authors were able to attack such diverse analytic questions as those of quasi-analytic functions, Mercer's theorem on summability, Milne's integral equation of radiative equilibrium, the theorems of Munz and Szasz concerning the closure of sets of powers of an argument, Titchmarsh's theory of entire functions of semi-exponential type with real negative zeros, trigonometric interpolation and developments in polynomials of the form $\sum^N_1A_ne^{i\lambda_nx}$, lacunary series, generalized harmonic analysis in the complex domain, the zeros of random functions, and many others. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eric S. Raymond, Lawrence Lessig, Nina Paley, Carl Malamud, Derrick Ashong, Ken Freedman, Tim O'reilly, Ellen S. Miller, Michael W. Carroll, Eric Eldred, Ronaldo Lemos, Joshua Tauberer, Stowe Boyd, Wendy Seltzer, Franco Iacomella, David Bollier. Excerpt:Carl Malamud speaking at the UC Berkeley iSchool about "(Re-)defining the public domain", October 17, 2007. Carl Malamud (1959 ) is a technologist, author, and public domain advocate, currently known for his foundation public.resource.org . He was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service. During his time with this group, he was responsible for creating the first Internet radio station , for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition Malamud is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair . He was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory and was the former chairman of the Internet Software Consortium . He also was the co-founder of Invisible Worlds, was a fellow at the Center for American Progress , and was a board member of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation . Protecting the public domain Most recently, Malamud has set up the nonprofit public.resource.org, headquartered in Sebastopol, California , to work for the publication of public domain information from local, state, and federal government agencies. Among his achievements have been digitizing 588 government films for the Internet Archive and YouTube, publishing a 5 million page crawl of the Government Printing Office , and persuading the state of Oregon to not assert copyright over its legislative statutes. He has also been active in challenging the state of California 's copyright claims on state laws by publishing copies of the criminal... ... Read more