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The Very Idea of Modern Science

Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle

by Joseph Agassi
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012

This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also...

Differential Equations

A Primer for Scientists and Engineers

by Christian Constanda
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers is a book designed with students in mind. It attempts to take a concise, simple, and no-frills approach to differential equations. The approach used in this text is to give students extensive experience in main solution techniques with a lighter...
by Ian Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Drawing on many years'experience of teaching discrete mathem atics to students of all levels, Anderson introduces such as pects as enumeration, graph theory and configurations or arr angements. Starting with an introduction to counting and rel ated problems, he moves on to the basic ideas of graph...
by Jonathan M. Kane
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016

This is a textbook on proof writing in the area of analysis, balancing a survey of the core concepts of mathematical proof with a tight, rigorous examination of the specific tools needed for an understanding of analysis. Instead of the standard "transition" approach to teaching proofs, wherein...
by Philip Hackney, Marcy Robertson, Donald Yau
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015

The topic of this book sits at the interface of the theory of higher categories (in the guise of (∞,1)-categories) and the theory of properads. Properads are devices more general than operads and enable one to encode bialgebraic, rather than just (co)algebraic, structures. The text extends...

From Linear Operators to Computational Biology

Essays in Memory of Jacob T. Schwartz

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012

In his rich and varied career as a mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, Jacob T. Schwartz wrote seminal works in analysis, mathematical economics, programming languages, algorithmics, and computational geometry. In this volume of essays, his friends, students, and collaborators at the...

The Inspiration Motif in the Works of Franz Grillparzer

With special consideration of ‘Libussa’

by Gisela Stein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Franz Grillparzer was not a man of extravagance either in phrase or conduct. His life as an individual and artist is marked by a reticence, an aversion to the unveiling of the inner SOul,1 that is perhaps best matched by the concise style and expression of his works. This art of effective restraint...

Phylogenomics

An Introduction

by Christoph Bleidorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

This unique textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the key principles of the complex field of phylogenomics, with a particular focus on sequencing technologies that are crucial to studying and understanding interrelations in evolutionary genomics. It includes chapters dedicated to the analysis...
by Brian K. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary) development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) that arise from defective neural crest development. The treatment of development will include...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015

This volume provides in-depth reviews of model systems that exemplify the arms race in host-pathogen interactions. Somatic adaptations are responsible for the individualization of biological responses to the environment, and the continual struggle between host immune systems and invading pathogens...
by Mauri Valtonen, Joanna Anosova, Konstantin Kholshevnikov
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory. The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in science and it is most relevant even in today’s...

The Shadow of Black Holes

An Analytic Description

by Arne Grenzebach
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016

This book introduces an analytic method to describe the shadow of black holes. As an introduction, it presents a survey of the attempts to observe the shadow of galactic black holes. Based on a detailed discussion of the Plebański–Demiański class of space-times, the book derives analytical formulas...
by Stefan Rumistrzewicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

Over the last 15 years or so there has been a huge increase in the popularity of astrophotography with the advent of digital SLR cameras and CCD imagers. These have enabled astronomers to take many images and, indeed, check images as they scan the skies. Processing techniques using computer software...

The Lost Constellations

A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore

by John C. Barentine
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

Casual stargazers are familiar with many classical figures and asterisms composed of bright stars (e.g., Orion and the Plough), but this book reveals not just the constellations of today but those of yesteryear. The history of the human identification of constellations among the stars is explored...
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