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by Miguel A. Méndez
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
This monograph has two main objectives. The first one is to give a self-contained exposition of the relevant facts about set operads, in the context of combinatorial species and its operations. This approach has various advantages: one of them is that the definition of combinatorial operations...
Self-Regularity
A New Paradigm for Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Research on interior-point methods (IPMs) has dominated the field of mathematical programming for the last two decades. Two contrasting approaches in the analysis and implementation of IPMs are the so-called small-update and large-update methods, although, until now, there has been a notorious gap...
Algebra for Applications
Cryptography, Secret Sharing, Error-Correcting, Fingerprinting, Compression
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This book examines the relationship between mathematics and data in the modern world. Indeed, modern societies are awash with data which must be manipulated in many different ways: encrypted, compressed, shared between users in a prescribed manner, protected from an unauthorised access and transmitted...
Limits of Computation
From a Programming Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
This textbook discusses the most fundamental and puzzling questions about the foundations of computing. In 23 lecture-sized chapters it provides an exciting tour through the most important results in the field of computability and time complexity, including the Halting Problem, Rice's Theorem, Kleene's...
Excel 2016 for Physical Sciences Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching physical science statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2013 for Physical Sciences Statistics, this book is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve...
by Jack Xin, Yingyong Qi
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The aim of the book is to give an accessible introduction of mathematical models and signal processing methods in speech and hearing sciences for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students with basic knowledge of linear algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis, and probability....
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS
Solving Crime with Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime
Using the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as the Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition with...
by Geneviève Dupont, Martin Falcke, Vivien Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book discusses the ways in which mathematical, computational, and modelling methods can be used to help understand the dynamics of intracellular calcium. The concentration of free intracellular calcium is vital for controlling a wide range of cellular processes, and is thus of great physiological...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
The second edition of Play Therapy Techniques includes seven new chapters in addition to the original twenty-four. These lively chapters expand the comprehensive scope of the book by describing issues involved in beginning and ending therapy, using metaphors, playing music and ball, and applying the...
Counterclockwise
Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents the answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead...
Before You Know It
The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a “brilliant and convincing book” (Malcolm Gladwell) cited as an outstanding read of 2017 by Business Insider and The Financial Times—giving us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly...
by Belize Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Join Belize Bruce and learn from his decades of mentoring primitive skills to thousands of peoples of the proper way to produce Fire by Friction using the Wood Bow Fire Drill.Of the two dozen or so Fire By Friction methods, the Wood Bow Fire Drill is the most efficient and universal way to...
by Peter Kattan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
This concise article of thirty pages takes you on a short tour on how to write small programs using MATLAB. The presentation covers both script files and function files. Several programming constructs are illustrated with simple examples. Loops are discussed using the For and While loops, while decisions...
Cartesian Tensors
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This undergraduate text provides an introduction to the theory of Cartesian tensors, defining tensors as multilinear functions of direction, and simplifying many theorems in a manner that lends unity to the subject. The author notes the importance of the analysis of the structure of tensors in terms...