Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Livres

Focusing on the Calculus of Variations, this book employs a geometric approach to explore its applications in mechanics and physics. It offers a structured progression through the subject, enriched with a diverse array of exercises, including solved problems. The text highlights the interconnectedness of various mathematical disciplines and presents advanced topics for enthusiastic learners. Additionally, it features historical insights into the evolution of the field and updates notes from a course originally taught at the École polytechnique in 1987, making it suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Puberty is a unique paradigm for the understanding of gene-environment interaction and developmental programming. Therefore, normal and abnormal pubertal development can be divided and examined in three the role of genetic factors, the role of environmental factors (including nutrition) and therapeutic issues in disorders of puberty. Dealing with all of these sections and framed along current key concepts in pediatric endocrinology, experts share their view on critical issues such as weighting of genetic versus environmental factors or the impact of environmental factors in relation to critical periods in development. Not only showing the consensus and controversial issues in the various areas, each chapter presents lessons for clinical management in an attempt to link basic research, physiology and pathophysiology with the clinical management of pubertal disorders. Puberty from Bench to Clinic bridges up-to-date concepts from animal and human physiology and pathology towards a better understanding and management of pubertal disorders, making it a unique resource for researchers in the field of development and reproduction, clinical scientists and practitioners in neuro-, pediatric and adolescent endocrinology as well as gynecology.