Table of Contents

1: Nigel Hitchin: Introduction
2: Nigel Hitchin: Riemann surfaces and integrable systems
3: Graeme Segal: Integrable systems and inverse scattering
4: Richard Ward: Integrable systems and twistors
Index

About the Author

Nigel Hitchin is Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford Graeme Segal is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford Richard Ward is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University

Reviews

`The subject of the book is fascinating and written versions of the lecture series are nicley presented and preserve well the informal spirit of the lectures. This is a very useful book for graduate students and for mathematicians (or physicists) from other fields interested in the topic.'
EMS
`The lecturers cover an enormous amount of material, ranging from algeraic geometry and the theory of Riemann surfaces to loop groups, connections, Yang-Mills equations and twister theory. However despite this wide range, the book is surprisingly self-contained and readable.'
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society