This book introduces the area of inverse problems. It examines basic notions and difficulties encountered with ill-posed problems and presents two special nonlinear inverse problems in detail: the inverse spectral problem and the inverse scattering problem.

This book introduces the reader to the area of inverse problems. The study of inverse problems is of vital interest to many areas of science and technology such as geophysical exploration, system identification, nondestructive testing and ultrasonic tomography.
The aim of this book is twofold: in the first part, the reader is exposed to the basic notions and difficulties encountered with ill-posed problems. Basic properties of regularization methods for linear ill-posed problems are studied by means of several simple analytical and numerical examples.
The second part of the book presents two special nonlinear inverse problems in detail - the inverse spectral problem and the inverse scattering problem. The corresponding direct problems are studied with respect to existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on parameters. Then some theoretical results as well as numerical procedures for the inverse problems are discussed. The choice of material and its presentation in the book are new, thus making it particularly suitable for graduate students. Basic knowledge of real analysis is assumed.

In this new edition, the Factorization Method is included as one of the prominent members in this monograph. Since the Factorization Method is particularly simple for the problem of EIT and this field has attracted a lot of attention during the past decade a chapter on EIT has been added in this monograph as Chapter 5 while the chapter on inverse scattering theory is now Chapter 6.The main changes of this second edition compared to the first edition concern only Chapters 5 and 6 and the Appendix A. Chapter 5 introduces the reader to the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography.

Good mixture of general results and particular cases - First monograph on inverse problems which contains electrical impedance tomography and the Factorization Method New chapters added

Autorentext
Andreas Kirsch is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Inhalt
Introduction and Basic Concepts.- Regularization Theory for Equations of the First Kind.- Regularization by Discretization.- Inverse Eigenvalue Problems.- An Inverse Problem in Electrical Impedance Tomography.- An Inverse Scattering Problem.- References.- Index