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Abstract Algebra: A Concrete Introductionby Robert H. RedfieldISBN 020143721X (0-201-43721-X)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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Among the Odds & Evensby Priscilla Turner, Whitney TurnerISBN 0374303436 (0-374-30343-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Analysis on Manifoldsby James R. MunkresISBN 0201315963 (0-201-31596-3)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Analytic Geometryby Gordon Fuller, J. Dalton TarwaterISBN 0201108615 (0-201-10861-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Applied Mathematica: Getting Started, Getting It Doneby William T. Shaw, Jason TiggISBN 020154217X (0-201-54217-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Bessel Functions with Some Physical Applicationsby C. J. TranterISBN 0340049596 (0-340-04959-6)
Hardcover, English Universities P.
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Calculus: Graphical Numerical Algebraicby Bert K. Waits, Ross L. Finney, Franklin Demana, George B. ThomasISBN 0201569019 (0-201-56901-9)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calculus: Graphical Numerical Algebraic'Book summary:This text uses a three-fold approach to teaching calculus - graphical, numerical and algebraic - to explore problem situations. This approach helps students better understand, and in turn better apply, the fundamentals of calculus. The authors' graphing calculator and computer graphing approach to algebra and trigonometry allows students to visualize for themselves tough mathematical concepts. This, combined with the solid calculus instruction of Finney and Thomas, gives students the solid maths coverage they need and the technology they value. [via]
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Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic Single Variable Versionby Bert K. Waits, Ross L. Finney, Franklin Demana, George B. ThomasISBN 020155478X (0-201-55478-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculationby John L. CastiISBN 0201328283 (0-201-32828-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Categories, Types, and Structures: An Introduction to Category Theory for the Working Computer Scientistby Andrea Asperti, Giuseppe LongoISBN 0262011255 (0-262-01125-5)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Classical Mechanicsby Charles P. Poole, Herbert Goldstein, John L. SafkoISBN 0201657023 (0-201-65702-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Mechanics'Book summary:For 30 years, this book has been the acknowledged standard in advanced classical mechanics courses. This classic book enables readers to make connections between classical and modern physics - an indispensable part of a physicist's education. In this new edition, Beams Medal winner Charles Poole and John Safko have updated the book to include the latest topics, applications, and notation to reflect today's physics curriculum.
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Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby John TennielISBN 0370005074 (0-370-00507-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Concise Course in Algebraic Topologyby J. Peter May, Peter J. MayISBN 0226511839 (0-226-51183-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Conquering Statistics: Numbers Without the Crunchby Jefferson Hane WeaverISBN 0306455722 (0-306-45572-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Course in Game Theoryby Martin J. Osborne, Ariel RubinsteinISBN 0262650401 (0-262-65040-1)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Anotherby Philip BallISBN 0374530416 (0-374-53041-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another'Book summary:Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society.[via]
Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs.
Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.More editions of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another:
Determinants and Matricesby Alexander Craig AitkenISBN 0313232946 (0-313-23294-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Digital Image Processingby Richard E. Woods, Rafael C. GonzalezISBN 0201180758 (0-201-18075-8)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Digital Image Processing'Book summary:Digital Image Processing is a third generation book that builds on two highly successful earlier editions and the authors' twenty years of academic and industrial experience in image processing. The book provides an introduction to basic concepts and methodologies for image processing and develops the foundation for further study in this diverse and rapidly evolving field. The topics covered range from enhancement and restoration to image encoding, segmentation, description, recognition, and interpretation. These topics are illustrated by numerous computer-processed images. [via]
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Digital Image Processingby Rafael C. Gonzalez, Paul A. WintzISBN 0201110261 (0-201-11026-1)
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Digital Image Processing/B805by GonzalezISBN 0201600781 (0-201-60078-1)
Softcover, Assn for Info Image Mgmt
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Dynamics: The Geometry of Behaviorby Ralph Abraham, Christopher D. ShawISBN 0201567172 (0-201-56717-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Eenie Meenie Miney Math!by Martha Weston, Linda AllisonISBN 0316034649 (0-316-03464-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Emergence: From Chaos to Orderby John Henry HollandISBN 0201149435 (0-201-14943-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergence: From Chaos to Order'Book summary:"Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the development of machines that can think for themselves. And while he claims that he'd rather do science than write about it, this is his second scientific philosophy book intended to increase public understanding of difficult concepts (his first was Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity). One of the questions that Holland says emergence theory can help answer is: can we build systems from which more comes out than was put in? Think of the food replicators in the imaginary future of Star Trek--with some basic chemical building blocks and simple rules, those machines can produce everything from Klingon delicacies to Earl Grey tea. If scientists can understand and apply the knowledge they gather from studying emergent systems, we may soon witness the development of artificial intelligence, nanotech, biological machines, and other creations heretofore confined to science fiction. Using games, molecules, maps, and scientific theories as examples, Holland outlines how emergence works, emphasizing the interrelationships of simple rules and parts in generating a complex whole. Because of the theoretical depth, this book probably won't appeal to the casual reader of popular science, but those interested in delving a little deeper into the future of science and engineering will be fascinated. Holland's writing, while sometimes self-consciously precise, is clear, and he links his theoretical arguments to examples in the real world whenever possible. Emergence offers insight not just to scientific advancement, but across many areas of human endeavor--business, the arts, even the evolution of society and the generation of new ideas. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Error-Correcting Codesby William Wesley PetersonISBN 0262160390 (0-262-16039-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Evolutionary Game Theoryby Jorgen W. WeibullISBN 0262731215 (0-262-73121-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Scienceby Jean Bricmont, Alan D. SokalISBN 0312204078 (0-312-20407-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science'Book summary:In 1996, an article entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the cultural studies journal Social Text. Packed with recherché quotations from "postmodern" literary theorists and sociologists of science, and bristling with imposing theorems of mathematical physics, the article addressed the cultural and political implications of the theory of quantum gravity. Later, to the embarrassment of the editors, the author revealed that the essay was a hoax, interweaving absurd pronouncements from eminent intellectuals about mathematics and physics with laudatory--but fatuous--prose.
In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling.
Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless, Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Finite-Dimensional Linear Analysis: A Systematic Presentation in Problem Formby I.M. Glazman, Iu. I. LiubichISBN 0262070588 (0-262-07058-8)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336275 (0-345-33627-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation'Book summary:Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It's science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336283 (0-345-33628-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Foundation Mathematicsby Dexter J. BoothISBN 0201416980 (0-201-41698-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation Mathematics'Book summary:By providing a clear and non-intimidating foundation in mathematics, this text sets out to develop engineering students' ability to handle basic mathematics with confidence. For use either as a self-teaching text or to accompany a lecture course, this book encourages mathematical understanding and develops manipulative skills through many worked examples, self-tests questions and exercises. This second edition includes many small improvements throughout the text and a new chapter on sets and probability providing the background to a course on statistics. [via]
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The Foundation Trilogyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385188307 (0-385-18830-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundation Trilogy'Book summary:The Foundation Series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. The series is best known for the Foundation Trilogy, which comprises the books Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. In 1965, the Foundation Trilogy beat several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series." It is still the only series so honored. Asimov himself wrote that he assumed the one-time award had been created to honor The Lord of the Rings, and he was amazed when his work won.
A saga of enormous scope and boundless imagination, Isaac Asimov's Hugo-winning Foundation Trilogy is one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Set 50,000 years in the future, it tells of the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire and the history of a universal ruling organization created to reduce the duration of the coming Dark Age.
Foundation introduces mathematician Hari Seldon, whose science of psychohistory can predict the future on a colossal scale. But what Hari foresees is an empire's collapse and an age of barbarism lasting 30,000 years. Gathering the finest minds in the galaxy, he devises a Plan to preserve the collective knowledge of the human race...only to find that the Foundation itself is under seige.
In Foundation and Empire, the Foundation has attained power, but can it prevail against an ambitious young general determined to restore the Empire to its former glory, or a mutant intelligence whose mysterious power to bend minds to his will not even Hari Seldon could have predicted?In Second Foundation, the mutant sets out to find the last threat to his power: a secretly evolved Second Foundation, whose colony of telepaths the First Foundation also wants destroyed. [via]More editions of The Foundation Trilogy:
Foundations of Computing: System Development With Set Theory and Logicby Thierry ScheurerISBN 0201544296 (0-201-54429-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processingby Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich SchutzeISBN 0262133601 (0-262-13360-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing'Book summary:Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.
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Fundamentals of Differential Equationsby Edward B. Saff, R. Kent Nagle, Arthur David SniderISBN 0201338688 (0-201-33868-8)
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Gardner's Whys & Whereforesby Martin GardnerISBN 0226282457 (0-226-28245-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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General Relativityby Robert WaldISBN 0226870332 (0-226-87033-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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General Topologyby Willard StephenISBN 0201087073 (0-201-08707-3)
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Graph Theory With Applicationsby U.S.R. Murty, John Adrian BondyISBN 0333177916 (0-333-17791-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The History of Mathematics: A Readerby John Fauvel, Jeremy GrayISBN 0333427912 (0-333-42791-2)
Softcover, Mathematical Assn of Amer
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The History of Mathematics: An Introductionby David M. BurtonISBN 0205080952 (0-205-08095-2)
Hardcover, Allyn and Bacon
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Human Use of Human Beingsby Norbert WienerISBN 0306803208 (0-306-80320-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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I Am a Mathematicianby Norbert WienerISBN 0262730073 (0-262-73007-3)
Softcover, MIT Press
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The I Hate Mathematics! Bookby Marilyn BurnsISBN 0316117412 (0-316-11741-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: An Alternative Approach to Philosophyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0231060319 (0-231-06031-9)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0231119151 (0-231-11915-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Carl SeeligISBN 0285647245 (0-285-64724-5)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press
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An Introduction to Genetic Algorithmsby Melanie MichellISBN 0262631857 (0-262-63185-7)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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The descriptions of applications and modeling projects stretch beyond the strict boundaries of computer science to include dynamical systems theory, game theory, molecular biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and population genetics, underscoring the exciting "general purpose" nature of genetic algorithms as search methods that can be employed across disciplines.
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms is accessible to students and researchers in any scientific discipline. It includes many thought and computer exercises that build on and reinforce the reader's understanding of the text.
The first chapter introduces genetic algorithms and their terminology and describes two provocative applications in detail. The second and third chapters look at the use of genetic algorithms in machine learning (computer programs, data analysis and prediction, neural networks) and in scientific models (interactions among learning, evolution, and culture; sexual selection; ecosystems; evolutionary activity). Several approaches to the theory of genetic algorithms are discussed in depth in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter takes up implementation, and the last chapter poses some currently unanswered questions and surveys prospects for the future of evolutionary computation. [via]More editions of An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms:
Introduction to Linear Algebraby Lee W. Johnson, R. Dean Riess, Jimmy T. ArnoldISBN 0201568012 (0-201-56801-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Knowledge and Social Imageryby David BloorISBN 0226060977 (0-226-06097-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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M.C. Escher Kaleidocyclesby Doris SchattschneiderISBN 0345256867 (0-345-25686-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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M.C. Escher: The Graphic Workby M.C. EscherISBN 034532787X (0-345-32787-X)
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Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Diversions from "Scientific American"by Martin GardnerISBN 0226282503 (0-226-28250-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Math for Smarty Pantsby Marilyn Burns, Martha WestonISBN 0316117390 (0-316-11739-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematicsby Gary Chartrand, Albert D. Polimeni, Ping ZhangISBN 0201710900 (0-201-71090-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Mathematical Traveler : Exploring the Grand History of Numbersby Calvin C. ClawsonISBN 0306446456 (0-306-44645-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Mathematics for the Modern Worldby Dale K. HathawayISBN 0201611295 (0-201-61129-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohsby Richard GillingsISBN 0262070456 (0-262-07045-6)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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The New Mathematicsby Irving AdlerISBN 0381980022 (0-381-98002-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmosby Michio KakuISBN 0385509863 (0-385-50986-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Could there be other universes?
In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kakuan author who has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth (Wall Street Journal)takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe.
In his first book of physics since Hyperspace, Michio Kaku begins by describing the extraordinary advances that have transformed cosmology over the last century, and particularly over the last decade, forcing scientists around the world to rethink our understanding of the birth of the universe, and its ultimate fate. In Dr. Kakus eyes, we are living in a golden age of physics, as new discoveries from the WMAP and COBE satellites and the Hubble space telescope have given us unprecedented pictures of our universe in its infancy.
As astronomers wade through the avalanche of data from the WMAP satellite, a new cosmological picture is emerging. So far, the leading theory about the birth of the universe is the inflationary universe theory, a major refinement on the big bang theory. In this theory, our universe may be but one in a multiverse, floating like a bubble in an infinite sea of bubble universes, with new universes being created all the time. A parallel universe may well hover a mere millimeter from our own.
The very idea of parallel universes and the string theory that can explain their existence was once viewed with suspicion by scientists, seen as the province of mystics, charlatans, and cranks. But today, physicists overwhelmingly support string-theory, and its latest iteration, M-theory, as it is this one theory that, if proven correct, would reconcile the four forces of the universe simply and elegantly, and answer the question What happened before the big bang?
Already, Kaku explains, the worlds foremost physicists and astronomers are searching for ways to test the theory of the multiverse using highly sophisticated wave detectors, gravity lenses, satellites, and telescopes. The implications of M-theory are fascinating and endless. If parallel worlds do exist, Kaku speculates, in time, perhaps a trillion years or more from now, as appears likely, when our universe grows cold and dark in what scientists describe as a big freeze, advanced civilizations may well find a way to escape our universe in a kind of inter-dimensional lifeboat.
An unforgettable journey into black holes and time machines, alternate universes, and multidimensional space, Parallel Worlds gives us a compelling portrait of the revolution sweeping the world of cosmology.More editions of Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos:
Piero Della Francesca: A Mathematician's Artby Piero, Judith Veronica FieldISBN 0300103425 (0-300-10342-5)
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Prelude to Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0246130482 (0-246-13048-2)
Hardcover, Grafton Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prelude to Foundation'Book summary:It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.
Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.
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Rings, Fields and Groups: An Introduction to Abstract Algebraby R. B. J. T. AllenbyISBN 0340544406 (0-340-54440-6)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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Retaining the highly readable style of its predecessor, this second edition has also been thoroughly revised to include a new chapter on Galois theory plus hints and solutions to many of the 800 exercises featured. [via]More editions of Rings, Fields and Groups: An Introduction to Abstract Algebra:
Second Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336291 (0-345-33629-1)
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Shapes, Space, and Symmetryby Alan HoldenISBN 0231083238 (0-231-08323-8)
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanicsby Gerald Jay Sussman, Jack Wisdom, Meinhard E. MayerISBN 0262194554 (0-262-19455-4)
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programsby Harold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay SussmanISBN 0262510871 (0-262-51087-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs'Book summary:Abelson and Sussman's classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs teaches readers how to program by employing the tools of abstraction and modularity. The authors' central philosophy is that programming is the task of breaking large problems into small ones. The book spends a great deal of time considering both this decomposition and the process of knitting the smaller pieces back together.
The authors employ this philosophy in their writing technique. The text asks the broad question "What is programming?" Having come to the conclusion that programming consists of procedures and data, the authors set off to explore the related questions of "What is data?" and "What is a procedure?"
The authors build up the simple notion of a procedure to dizzying complexity. The discussion culminates in the description of the code behind the programming language Scheme. The authors finish with examples of how to implement some of the book's concepts on a register machine. Through this journey, the reader not only learns how to program, but also how to think about programming. [via]
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A Survey of Mathematics With Applicationsby Allen R. Angel, Dennis C. Runde, Christine D. AbbottISBN 0321205650 (0-321-20565-0)
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Thinking Mathematicallyby John MasonISBN 0201102382 (0-201-10238-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Topics in Geometic Group Theoryby Pierre De LA HarpeISBN 0226317218 (0-226-31721-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Turtle Geometry: The Computer As a Medium for Exploring Mathematicsby Harold Abelson, Andrea A. DisessaISBN 0262510375 (0-262-51037-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turtle Geometry: The Computer As a Medium for Exploring Mathematics'Book summary:Turtle Geometry presents an innovative program of mathematical discovery that demonstrates how the effective use of personal computers can profoundly change the nature of a student's contact with mathematics. Using this book and a few simple computer programs, students can explore the properties of space by following an imaginary turtle across the screen.The concept of turtle geometry grew out of the Logo Group at MIT. Directed by Seymour Papert, author of Mindstorms, this group has done extensive work with preschool children, high school students and university undergraduates. Harold Abelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Andrea diSessa is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
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Ubiquity: The Science of History . . . or Why the World Is Simpler Than We Thinkby Mark BuchananISBN 0297643762 (0-297-64376-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ubiquity: The Science of History . . . or Why the World Is Simpler Than We Think'Book summary:Scientists have recently discovered a new law of nature. Its footprints are virtually everywhere - in the spread of forest fires, mass extinctions, traffic jams, earthquakes, stock-market fluctuations, the rise and fall of nations, and even trends in fashion, music and art. Wherever we look, the world is modelled on a simple template: like a steep pile of sand, it is poised on the brink of instability, with avalanches - in events, ideas or whatever - following a universal pattern of change. This remarkable discovery heralds what Mark Buchanan calls the new science of 'ubiquity', a science whose secret lies in the stuff of the everyday world. Combining literary flair with scientific rigour, this enthralling book documents the coming revolution by telling the story of the researchers' exploration of the law, their ingenious work and unexpected insights. Mark Buchanan reveals how the principle of ubiquity will help us to manage, control and predict the future. More controversially, he claims that it may well contain the beginnings of a mathematics of cultural and historical change. Every decade sees a major scientific breakthrough that has implications that go way beyond science. 'Ubiquity' is one of them. This book, the world's first on the topic, will change how we think about the world and our place in it. Chaos Disorder from order. Complexity Complexity from simplicity. UBIQUITY World has a natural 'rhythm': there is a mysterious archetypal organisation that works in the world at all levels and which gives rise to a universal pattern of change - in groups of people, things or ideas. [via]
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Understanding Statistics in the Behavioral Sciencesby Robert R. PaganoISBN 0314026916 (0-314-02691-6)
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Weby Yvegeny Zamyatin, Mirra GinsburgISBN 0380633132 (0-380-63313-2)
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Before 1984...There was...WE
In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.
One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.
A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.
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Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Studyby Edward RegisISBN 0201122782 (0-201-12278-2)
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The World's Most Famous Math Problemby Marilyn Vos SavantISBN 0312106572 (0-312-10657-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World's Most Famous Math Problem'Book summary:June 23, 1993. A Princeton mathematician announces that he has unlocked, after thousands of unsuccessful attempts by others, the greatest mathematical riddle in the world. Dr. Wiles demonstrates to a group of stunned mathematicians that he has provided the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (the equation x" + y" = z", where n is an integer greater than 2, has no solution in positive numbers), a problem that has confounded scholars for over 350 years.[via]
Here in this brilliant new book, Marilyn vos Savant, the person with the highest recorded IQ in the world explains the mathematical underpinnings of Wiles's solution, discusses the history of Fermat's Last Theorem and other great math problems, and provides colorful stories of the great thinkers and amateurs who attempted to solve Fermat's puzzle.More editions of The World's Most Famous Math Problem:
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