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Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness
A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...
Galois Theory
Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame by Emil Artin (Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures,
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
In the nineteenth century, French mathematician Evariste Galois developed the Galois theory of groups-one of the most penetrating concepts in modem mathematics. The elements of the theory are clearly presented in this second, revised edition of a volume of lectures delivered by noted mathematician...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Number theory is an important branch of pure mathematics since it contains many basic concepts that are used to build up complex concepts of pure mathematics. One who is looking for a breakthrough in broad term mathematics is suggested to start from this theory. It will clear up basic concepts so...
Summing It Up
From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
We use addition on a daily basis—yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical...
Dirichlet
A Mathematical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This is the first extensive biography of the influential German mathematician, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 – 1859). Dirichlet made major contributions to number theory in addition to clarifying concepts such as the representation of functions as series, the theory of convergence, and...
Civil Society and Democratic Theory
Alternative Voices
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from...
Border Crossings
Toward a Comparative Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1999
Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing...
The Queer Renaissance
Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was...
Quadratic Residues and Non-Residues
Selected Topics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book offers an account of the classical theory of quadratic residues and non-residues with the goal of using that theory as a lens through which to view the development of some of the fundamental methods employed in modern elementary, algebraic, and analytic number theory.
The first three...
Cybertext Poetics
The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital...
Matricentric Feminism
Theory, Activism, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women’s role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy...
by Stevo Todorcevic, Chitat Chong, Qi Feng;Theodore A Slaman;W Hugh Woodin;Yue Yang
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
In the mathematical practice, the Baire category method is a tool for establishing the existence of a rich array of generic structures. However, in mathematics, the Baire category method is also behind a number of fundamental results such as the Open Mapping Theorem or the Banach–Steinhaus Boundedness...
Contemporary Anarchist Studies
An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord...
Beyond the Market
The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining...