Inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering theory. (Q1376934)

The first edition of this well-known and appreciated text, extremely valuable for both, students and researchers, appeared in 1992 (for a review cf. Zbl 0760.35053). The book consists of the following 10 Chapters: 1) Introduction, 2) The Helmholtz equation, 3) Direct acoustic obstacle scattering, 4) Ill-posed problems, 5) Inverse acoustic obstacle scattering, 6) The Maxwell equations, 7) Inverse electromagnetic obstacle scattering, 8) Acoustic waves in an inhomogeneous medium, 9) Electromagnetic waves in an inhomogeneous medium, 10) The inverse medium problem. Concerning the improvements, compared to the first edition, let the reviewer cite from the authors' Preface: ``In addition to making minor corrections and additional comments in the text and updating the references, we have added new sections on: Newton's method for solving the inverse obstacle problem (Section 5.3), the spectral theory of the far field operator (Section 8.4), a proof of the uniqueness of the solution to the inverse medium problem for acoustic waves (Section 10.2), and a method for determining the support of an inhomogeneous medium from far field data by solving a linear integral equation of the first kind (Section 10.7). We hope that this second edition will attract new readers to the beautiful and intriguing field of inverse scattering''.