Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1987. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-101). Also available on the World Wide Web.

This thesis covers fundamental properties of metric spaces, as well as completeness, compactness, and separability of metric spaces.

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The logical system MTL (for Monoidal t-norm Logic) is a formalism of the logic of left-continuous t-norms, which are operations that arise in the study of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. The objective is to investigate the important results on MTL and collect them together in a coherent form. The main results considered will be the completeness results for the logic with respect to MTL-algebras, MTL-chains (linearly ordered MTL-algebras) and standard MTL-algebras (left-continuous t-norm algebras). Completeness of MTL with respect to standard MTL-algebras means that MTL is indeed the logic of left-continuous t-norms. The logical system BL (for Basic Logic) is an axiomatic extension of MTL; we will consider the same completeness results for BL; that is we will show that BL is complete with respect to BL-algebras, BL-chains and standard BL-algebras (continuous t-norm algebras). Completeness of BL with respect to standard BL-algebras means that BL is the logic of continuous t-norms.

The central idea in this thesis is the introduction of a new isometric invariant of a Banach space. This is Property AI-I. A Banach space has Property AI-I if whenever a finite metric space almost-isometrically embeds into the space, it isometrically embeds. To study this property we introduce two further properties that can be thought of as finite metric variants of Dvoretzky's Theorem and Krivine's Theorem. We say that a Banach space satisfies the Finite Isometric Dvoretzky Property (FIDP) if it contains every finite subset of $\ell_2$ isometrically. We say that a Banach space has the Finite Isometric Krivine Property (FIKP) if whenever $\ell_p$ is finitely representable in the space then it contains every subset of $\ell_p$ isometrically. We show that every infinite-dimensional Banach space \emph{nearly} has FIDP and every Banach space nearly has FIKP. We then use convexity arguments to demonstrate that not every Banach space has FIKP, and thus we can exhibit classes of Banach spaces that fail to have Property AI-I. The methods used break down when one attempts to prove that there is a Banach space without FIDP and we conjecture that every infinite-dimensional Banach space has Property FIDP.

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Thesis (M.S.) in Physics--University of Maine, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65).

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-164). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.