Tabla de Contenidos: “…Weeding Key Biscayne -- The challenge of reinhabitation -- Paradigms of community -- Awareness: restoration as a way of seeing, and as work and play -- The exchange: restoration as repayment, and the gift of ecological immortality -- Value and make-believe: a primer on performance -- Sacrifice and celebration: restoration as a performing art -- Sacrifice and celebration: restoration as a performing art -- Conservation and community: restoration, the environment, and environmentalism.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Implicit functions -- An informal version of the implicit function theorem -- The implicit function theorem paradigm -- Historical introduction -- Newton -- Lagrange -- Cauchy -- The inductive proof of the implicit function theorem -- The classical approach to the implicit function theorem -- The contraction mapping fixed point principle -- The rank theorem and the decomposition theorem -- A counterexample -- Ordinary differential equations -- Numerical homotopy methods -- Equivalent definitions of a smooth surface -- Smoothness of the distance function -- The Weierstrass preparation theorem -- Implicit function theorems without differentiability -- An inverse function theorem for continuous mappings -- Some singular cases of the implicit function theorem -- Analytic implicit function theorems -- Hadamard's global inverse function theorem -- The implicit function theorem via the Newton-Raphson method -- The Nash-Moser implicit function theorem.…”