Simon Ng: 3 books

How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...

When an arrogant occultist resurrects the monster named the Pariah, Nicodemus Flynn, who has for years stood against malevolent forces, sets out to stop it. The Pariah was originally killed by a man who sacrificed his own life in the process. Now, must history repeat itself? The Pariah will not falter. It will not stop. But neither will Nicodemus Flynn.

This book is the first to be devoted to the theory and applications of spherical (radial) basis functions (SBFs), which is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising techniques for solving problems where approximations are needed on the surface of a sphere. The aim of the book is to provide enough...