This graduate-level textbook introduces the reader to the area of inverse problems, vital to many fields including geophysical exploration, system identification, nondestructive testing, and ultrasonic tomography. It aims to expose the basic notions and difficulties encountered with ill-posed problems, analyzing basic properties of regularization methods for ill-posed problems via several simple analytical and numerical examples. The book also presents three special nonlinear inverse problems in detail: the inverse spectral problem, the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), and the inverse scattering problem. The corresponding direct problems are studied with respect to existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on parameters. Ultimately, the text discusses theoretical results as well as numerical procedures for the inverse problems, including many exercises and illustrations to complement coursework in mathematics and engineering.
This updated text includes a new chapter on the theory of nonlinear inverse problems in response to the field's growing popularity, as well as a new section on the interior transmission eigenvalue problem which complements the Sturm-Liouville problem and which has received great attention since the previous edition was published.
This updated text includes a new chapter on the theory of nonlinear inverse problems in response to the field's growing popularity, as well as a new section on the interior transmission eigenvalue problem which complements the Sturm-Liouville problem and which has received great attention since the previous edition was published.
"This monograph is a thorough and insightful introduction to the mathematics of inverse problems and a solid improvement of the previous editions, which were used to educate many researchers in the field over the last two and a half decades. As such, the volume is already a classic and can be recommended without reservations to any reader interested in both the foundations and specific examples of inverse problems relevant to modern engineering and sciences." (Alexander Mamonov, SIAM Review, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)
From the reviews of the second edition:
"Andreas Kirsch successfully wrote this book not only for mathematics students but also physics and engineering students. ... I think that this book would work very nicely as a university textbook. ... All sections of the books seemed sprinkled with the latest results, showing that there is a surprising amount of current research activity in this area. I recommend this book to anyone interested in inverse problems, and book's index makes it a valuable reference volume for your book shelf." (Collin Carbno, The Mathematical Association of America, January, 2012)
"Andreas Kirsch successfully wrote this book not only for mathematics students but also physics and engineering students. ... I think that this book would work very nicely as a university textbook. ... All sections of the books seemed sprinkled with the latest results, showing that there is a surprising amount of current research activity in this area. I recommend this book to anyone interested in inverse problems, and book's index makes it a valuable reference volume for your book shelf." (Collin Carbno, The Mathematical Association of America, January, 2012)