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Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled down. This revised edition of Does God Play Dice? takes a fresh look at its achievements and potential. With a new preface and three completely new...
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Penguin
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1997-06-26
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In this book, two seemingly unrelated fields -- algebraic topology and robust control -- are brought together. The book develops algebraic/differential topology from an application-oriented point of view. The book takes the reader on a path starting from a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-05-29
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For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1996-07-18
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Selected Topics in Approximation and Computation addresses the relationship between modern approximation theory and computational methods. The text is a combination of expositions of basic classical methods of approximation leading to popular splines and new explicit...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1995-08-31
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Categorical data analysis is a special area of generalised linear models, which has become the most important area of statistical applications in many disciplines, from medicine to social sciences. This text presents the standard models and many newly developed ones in...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1995-04-27
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A counterexample is any example or result that is the opposite of one's intuition or to commonly held beliefs. Counterexamples can have great educational value in illuminating complex topics that are difficult to explain in a rigidly logical, written presentation. For...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-10-07
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Optimal Control is a modern development of the calculus of variations and classical optimization theory. For this reason, this introduction to the theory ofOptimal Control starts by considering the problem of minimizing a function of many variables. It moves from there,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1993-03-18
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This book is a survey of work on passage times in stable Markov chains with a discrete state space and a continuous time. Passage times have been investigated since early days of probability theory and its applications. The best known example is the first entrance time...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1992-12-31
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Over the past two decades, academic economics has undergone a mild revolution in methodology. The language, concepts and techniques of noncooperative game theory have become central to the discipline.
This book provides the reader with some basic concepts from...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1990-10-04
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The study of the dynamics of fluids is a central theme of modern applied mathematics. It is used to model a vast range of physical phenomena and plays a vital role in science and engineering. This textbook provides a clear introduction to both the theory and application...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1990-03-15
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This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-03-01
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This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-03-01
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This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-03-01
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In this book Pollock deals with the subject of probabilistic reasoning, making general philosophical sense of objective probabilities and exploring their relationship to the problem of induction. He argues that probability is fundamental not only to physical science,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-02-22
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Goodness of fit describes the validity of models involving statistical distributions of data, and smooth tests are a subset of these tests that are easy to apply and can be used in any situation in which there are relatively large sample sizes. Both concepts have become...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1989-10-12
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In this terrible new COVID-19 world, the University of Ottawa is doing its part by offering a 50% discount on this very important book. We decided not to rewrite the witty book description, though we realize it is tone-deaf at the present moment, as we wanted to give...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-10-14
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