Background
Rasvan, Vladimir B. was born on May 20, 1945 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Berthold A. and Frederica I. (Avram) Rasvan.
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The year 1992 marks the centennial anniversary of publication of the celebrated monograph "The General Problem of Stability of Motion" written by A. M. Liapunov. This anniversary inspires to think about the way theory and applications have developed during this century. The first observation one can make is that the so-called "second method", nowadays known as the "Liapunov function method", has received more attention than the "first method"; let us also mention the study of critical cases, which brought more attention recently in connection with the study of bifurcations and with nonlinear stabilization. One of the reasons of popularity of the Liapunov function approach might be the fact that, in many situations in science and engineering, and not only in mechanics, which was the main source of inspiration for the work of Liapunov, natural Liapunov functions may be proposed, intimately connected with the properties of the processes. It is one of the purposes of this book to advocate this idea. From the mathematical viewpoint, the century after the first appear ance of Liapunov's monograph has been characterized both by general izations and by refinements of Liapunov's ideas. But we feel that the most spectacular progress is the understanding of the wide possibilities open for applications by the use of Stability Theory as constructed by Liapunov a century ago. We have tried to show some of the ideas in this direction by start ing with our personal experience in the study of some models.
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The expertise of a professional mathmatician and a theoretical engineer provides a fresh perspective of stability and stable oscillations. The current state of affairs in stability theory, absolute stability of control systems, and stable oscillations of both periodic and almost periodic discrete systems is presented, including many applications in engineering such as stability of digital filters, digitally controlled thermal processes, neurodynamics, and chemical kinetics. This book will be an invaluable reference source for those whose work is in the area of discrete dynamical systems, difference equations, and control theory or applied areas that use discrete time models.
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consultant mathematics professor
Rasvan, Vladimir B. was born on May 20, 1945 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Berthold A. and Frederica I. (Avram) Rasvan.
Bachelor degree, National College, Bucharest, 1962. Diploma in engineering, Polytech. Institute, Bucharest, 1967.
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Polytech. Institute, Bucharest, 1972.
Junior researcher Power Institute, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1967-1969; research engineer Power Research and Design Institute, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1972-1975; senior researcher, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1975-1982; associate professor, Craiova (Romania) U., 1982-1990; professor, faculty dean, Craiova (Romania) U., since 1990. Consultant National Aerospace Institute, Bucharest, since 1993.
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior ), Romanian Academy Engineering Sciences, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, American Mathematics Society, Mathematical Association American.
Married Ecaterina R. Taralunga, January 11, 1975.