Theory category: 79975 books
Communicating Terror
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act
*"This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our culture, politics, religion, economics, etc. Students really like the case studies and...
by L. Kuipers, H. Niederreiter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
The theory of uniform distribution began with Hermann Weyl's celebrated paper of 1916. In later decades, the theory moved beyond its roots in diophantine approximations to provide common ground for topics as diverse as number theory, probability theory, functional analysis, and topological algebra....
by Melvin Dresher
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Melvin Dresher, noted research mathematician for the Rand Corporation, puts forth an exceptionally clear presentation of the mathematical theory of games of strategy and its applications to many fields including: economics, military, business, and operations research. The mathematical presentation...
by Mo-Lin Ge, Rong-Gen Cai, Yu-Xiao Liu
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Yi-Shi Duan (1927–2016) was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity. Trained in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Duan returned to China in 1957 to work in Lanzhou University for 60 years. In 1963, he came up with a general co-variant form of the...
Transitions Theory
Middle Range and Situation Specific Theories in Nursing Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
"It is very exciting to see all of these studies compiled in one book. It can be read sequentially or just for certain transitions. It also can be used as a template for compilation of other concepts central to nursing and can serve as a resource for further studies in transitions. It is an excellent...
Game Theory
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Developments in the use of game theory have impacted multiple fields and created opportunities for new applications. With the ubiquity of these developments, there is an increase in the overall utilization of this approach. Game Theory: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice contains a compendium of...
Differential Games
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book uses a small volume to present the most basic results for deterministic two-person differential games. The presentation begins with optimization of a single function, followed by a basic theory for two-person games. For dynamic situations, the author first recalls control theory which is...
Biography of an Idea
John Maynard Keynes and the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The culmination of John Maynard Keynes's thought and lifework was The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Here, placing it in the context of his era, David Felix examines the evolution of Keynes's theorizing. He boldly claims that The General Theory lacks logical and factual support...
by Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The 2008 international crisis has revived the interest in Keynes’s theories and, in particular, on Minsky’s models of financial fragility. The core proposition of these theories is that money plays an essential role in modern economies, which is usually neglected in other approaches. This is Keynes’s...
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Market
Selected Papers on Bilateral and Multilateral Bargaining
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Market — Selected Papers on Bilateral and Multilateral Bargaining consists of selected research in bargaining carried out by Kalyan Chatterjee by himself and with various co-authors. Chatterjee has been one of the earliest researchers to work on noncooperative bargaining...
by Harry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
An internationally acknowledged authority on all aspects of the theory of international trade and payments, this book collects Harry Johnson’s contributions to the study of international trade, including a critique of the theory of effective protection. The book discusses:
the integration of...
Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics
IX International Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Traditionally, Lie Theory is a tool to build mathematical models for physical systems. Recently, the trend is towards geometrisation of the mathematical description of physical systems and objects. A geometric approach to a system yields in general some notion of symmetry which is very helpful in...
The Universal Coefficient Theorem and Quantum Field Theory
A Topological Guide for the Duality Seeker
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This thesis describes a new connection between algebraic geometry, topology, number theory and quantum field theory. It offers a pedagogical introduction to algebraic topology, allowing readers to rapidly develop basic skills, and it also presents original ideas to inspire new research in the quest...
by Keith Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Interest in complexity theory, a relation of chaos theory, has become well established in the business community in recent years. Complexity theory argues that systems are complex interactions of many parts which cannot be predicted by accepted linear equations. In this book, Keith Morrison introduces...