"Consider the Menu Carefully”: The Dining-Room Tales of Alice B. Toklas

Shortly after Gertrude Stein’s death, the publication of "The Alice B. Toklas’ Cookbook" turned its usually very reserved author into a celebrity: the book was both a memoir and a cookbook, and it was met with such a great success, that the publisher asked the author to write a second one. Ms. Toklas obliged, and wrote both "Aromas & Flavours of Past and Present", and her own autobiography "What is Remembered", but neither of the two reached the same fortune. Toklas had very little control over her publications, and always considered her second cookbook something she could not really be proud of, mainly because it was heavily edited by a magazine editor, and she did not like the result. "The Alice B. Toklas’ Cookbook" was the first original project Alice Toklas embarked on, after the editing and the publication of the works by Gertrude Stein that were still unpublished at the time of Stein’s death. The idea of a cookbook had been discussed with Stein during the years, but had never came to fruition before. The text of the "Cookbook" is examined as well as the relationship between the two women, a relationship which nourished Toklas’ writing, albeit Stein’s absence

On a Dirichlet problem with (p,q)(p,q)-Laplacian and parametric concave-convex nonlinearity

A homogeneous Dirichlet problem with $(p,q)$-Laplace differential operator and reaction given by a parametric $p$-convex term plus a $q$-concave one is investigated. A bifurcation-type result, describing changes in the set of positive solutions as the parameter $\lambda>0$ varies, is proven. Since for every admissible $\lambda$ the problem has a smallest positive solution $\bar u_{\lambda}$, both monotonicity and continuity of the map $\lambda \mapsto \bar u_{\lambda}$ are studied.Comment: 12 pages, comments are welcom

Some recent results on singular p p -Laplacian systems

Some recent existence, multiplicity, and uniqueness results for singular p-Laplacian systems either in bounded domains or in the whole space are presented, with a special attention to the case of convective reactions. A extensive bibliography is also provided

Risultati di esistenza per alcune classi di disequazioni variazionali-emivariazionali di tipo ellittico

The main purpose of this lecture is to present some basic notions on variational and variational-hemivariational inequalities as well as two recent existence results in the elliptic case. A wide bibliography is also provided