Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Foreword xiii -- Preface xv -- List of Symbols xvii -- Acronyms and Abbreviations xix -- 1 Radio Wave Fundamentals 1 -- 1.1 Maxwell's Equations 1 -- 1.2 Free Space Propagation 3 -- 1.3 Uniform Plane Wave Propagation 3 -- 1.4 Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Isotropic and Homogeneous Media 5 -- 1.5 Wave Polarization 8 -- 1.6 Propagation Mechanisms 11 -- 1.6.1 Reflection by an Isotropic Material 12 -- 1.6.2 Reflection/Refraction by an Anisotropic Material 18 -- 1.6.3 Diffuse Reflection/Scattering 19 -- 1.6.4 Diffraction 20 -- 1.7 Propagation in the Earth's Atmosphere 21 -- 1.7.1 Properties of the Earth's Atmosphere 21 -- 1.7.2 Radio Waves in the Ionosphere 25 -- 1.8 Frequency Dispersion of Radio Waves 29 -- 1.8.1 Phase Velocity versus Group Velocity 30 -- 1.8.2 Group Path versus Phase Path 31 -- 1.8.3 Phase Path Stability: Doppler Shift/Dispersion 32 -- References 33 -- 2 Radio Wave Transmission 35 -- 2.1 Free Space Transmission 35 -- 2.1.1 Path Loss 35 -- 2.1.2 Relating Power to the Electric Field 37 -- 2.2 Transmission Loss of Radio Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere 38 -- 2.2.1 Attenuation due to Gases in the Lower Atmosphere and Rain: Troposphere 38 -- 2.2.2 Attenuation of Radio Waves in an Ionized Medium: Ionosphere 41 -- 2.3 Attenuation Due to Propagation into Buildings 43 -- 2.4 Transmission Loss due to Penetration into Vehicles 46 -- 2.5 Diffraction Loss 49 -- 2.5.1 Fundamentals of Diffraction Loss: Huygen's Principle 49 -- 2.5.2 Diffraction Loss Due to a Single Knife Edge: Fresnel Integral Approach 50 -- 2.6 Diffraction Loss Models 54 -- 2.6.1 Single Knife Edge Diffraction Loss 54 -- 2.6.2 Multiple Edge Diffraction Loss 55 -- 2.7 Path Loss Due to Scattering 57 -- 2.8 Multipath Propagation: Two-Ray Model 57 -- 2.8.1 Two-Ray Model in a Nondispersive Medium 58 -- 2.8.2 Two-Ray Model due to LOS and Ground Reflected Wave: Plane Earth Model 59 -- 2.8.3 Two-Ray Propagation via the Ionosphere 63 -- 2.9 General Multipath Propagation 66 -- 2.9.1 Time Dispersion due to Multipath Propagation 66.…”

“…Siendo hoy uno de los campos de la matemática con más aplicaciones, repasa su historia y la formulación de sus principales leyes, teoremas y paradojas, vinculados a los nombres, entre otros, de Cardano, Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Bernoulli o Gauss, y especialmente de Laplace y Kolmogórov. …”

“…Siendo hoy uno de los campos de la matemática con más aplicaciones, repasa su historia y la formulación de sus principales leyes, teoremas y paradojas, vinculados a los nombres, entre otros, de Cardano, Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Bernoulli o Gauss, y especialmente de Laplace y Kolmogórov. …”