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Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

par Nick Bostrom ...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... En savoir plus

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The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of
... En savoir plus
Division Practice Book 2, Grade 3

Grade 3 Division Practice, #2

par Ned Tarrington ...

Collections Livre 2 - Grade 3 Division Practice
Practice and hone important division skills with this second book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select ... En savoir plus

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Practice and hone important division skills with this second book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select
... En savoir plus
Division Practice Book 1, Grades 4-5

Grades 4-5 Division Practice, #1

par Ned Tarrington ...

Collections Livre 1 - Grades 4-5 Division Practice
Practice and hone important division skills. Find inside twenty division problems with complete solutions that instruct the student in the process of long division. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start ... En savoir plus

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Practice and hone important division skills. Find inside twenty division problems with complete solutions that instruct the student in the process of long division. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution, and then return to the practice problems to select another. Problems start
... En savoir plus
Division Practice Book 3, Grades 4-5

Grades 4-5 Division Practice, #3

par Ned Tarrington ...

Collections Livre 3 - Grades 4-5 Division Practice
Practice and hone important division skills with this third book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select ... En savoir plus

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Practice and hone important division skills with this third book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select
... En savoir plus
Division Practice Book 3, Grade 3

Grade 3 Division Practice, #3

par Ned Tarrington ...

Collections Livre 3 - Grade 3 Division Practice
Practice and hone important division skills with this third book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select ... En savoir plus

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Practice and hone important division skills with this third book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select
... En savoir plus
Division Practice Book 1, Grade 3

Grade 3 Division Practice, #1

par Ned Tarrington ...

Collections Livre 1 - Grade 3 Division Practice
Practice and hone important division skills with this first book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select ... En savoir plus

$0.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Practice and hone important division skills with this first book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select
... En savoir plus
Division Practice Book 2, Grades 4-5

Grades 4-5 Division Practice, #2

par Ned Tarrington ...

Collections Livre 2 - Grades 4-5 Division Practice
Practice and hone important division skills with this second book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select ... En savoir plus

$0.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Practice and hone important division skills with this second book. Select one of twenty math problems with complete solutions that educate the student in the division process. The book also includes four bonus word problems with complete explanations and answers. Easily navigate the links from the problem list to view the solution with answer, and then return to the practice problems to select
... En savoir plus
How to Lie with Statistics

par Darrell Huff ...

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform. ... En savoir plus

$14.39 CAD

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.
... En savoir plus
Six Math Essentials

par Terence Tao ...

The “Mozart of mathematics” invites readers on a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking for everyone.In Six Math Essentials, the renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist Terence Tao introduces readers to six central concepts that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the ... En savoir plus

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The “Mozart of mathematics” invites readers on a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking for everyone.In Six Math Essentials, the renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist Terence Tao introduces readers to six central concepts that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the
... En savoir plus
Big Math

The Hidden Codes That Run Our World

par Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend ...

The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs—from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to artificial intelligence and beyond—while also slipping further and further from our understanding, with potentially earth-shaking consequences.We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s in every ... En savoir plus

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The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs—from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to artificial intelligence and beyond—while also slipping further and further from our understanding, with potentially earth-shaking consequences.We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s in every
... En savoir plus
Beyond Infinity

An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics

par Eugenia Cheng ...

**By one of our most imaginative mathematicians, a mind-expanding trip through the beauty—and the mysteries—of infinity  “Cheng does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." —*Wall Street Journal ***Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world—or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $12.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

**By one of our most imaginative mathematicians, a mind-expanding trip through the beauty—and the mysteries—of infinity  “Cheng does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." —*Wall Street Journal ***Imagine something small enough to fit in your head but too large to fit in the world—or even the universe. What would you call it? And what would
... En savoir plus
Data Visualization in Excel

A Guide for Beginners, Intermediates, and Wonks

par Jonathan Schwabish ...

Collections series AK Peters Visualization Series
This enhanced version includes video content to provide a greater understanding of the text. This consists of five videos by the author explaining topics including conditional formatting, combining charts, tables, and exporting content from Excel. ... En savoir plus

$41.16 CAD

This enhanced version includes video content to provide a greater understanding of the text. This consists of five videos by the author explaining topics including conditional formatting, combining charts, tables, and exporting content from Excel.
... En savoir plus
Alan Turing

The Enigma Man

par Nigel Cawthorne ...

Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing.Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the ... En savoir plus

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Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing.Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the
... En savoir plus
Something Doesn’t Add Up

Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

par Paul Goodwin ...

Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them. Something Doesn't Add Up is a fieldguide to the numbers that rule our world, even though they don't make sense.Wry, witty and ... En savoir plus

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Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them. Something Doesn't Add Up is a fieldguide to the numbers that rule our world, even though they don't make sense.Wry, witty and
... En savoir plus
An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity

Think More, Think Better

par Joe Y. F. Lau ...

A valuable guide on creativity and critical thinking to improve reasoning and decision-making skillsCritical thinking skills are essential in virtually any field of study or practice where individuals need to communicate ideas, make decisions, and analyze and solve problems. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better outlines the necessary tools for readers to ... En savoir plus

$94.99 CAD

A valuable guide on creativity and critical thinking to improve reasoning and decision-making skillsCritical thinking skills are essential in virtually any field of study or practice where individuals need to communicate ideas, make decisions, and analyze and solve problems. An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better outlines the necessary tools for readers to
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Models of the Mind

How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain

par Grace Lindsay ...

The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses.For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and ... En savoir plus

$17.99 CAD

The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses.For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and
... En savoir plus
Exact Thinking in Demented Times

The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

par Karl Sigmund, Douglas R Hofstadter ...

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceInspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in ... En savoir plus

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A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceInspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in
... En savoir plus
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

par Randall Munroe ...

A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to the most absurd hypothetical questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can ... En savoir plus

$11.99 CAD

A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to the most absurd hypothetical questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can
... En savoir plus
The Humongous Book of Trigonometry Problems

750 Trigonometry Problems with Comprehensive Solutions for All Major Topics

par W. Michael Kelley ...

Collections series Humongous Books
Become a trig master in no time!Most math and science study guides are a reflection of the college professors who write them: dry, difficult, and pretentious. The Humongous Book of Trigonometry Problems is the exception. Author Mike Kelley has taken what appears to be a typical trigonometry workbook, chock full of solved problems—more than 750!—and made notes in the margins adding missing steps ... En savoir plus

$16.99 CAD

Become a trig master in no time!Most math and science study guides are a reflection of the college professors who write them: dry, difficult, and pretentious. The Humongous Book of Trigonometry Problems is the exception. Author Mike Kelley has taken what appears to be a typical trigonometry workbook, chock full of solved problems—more than 750!—and made notes in the margins adding missing steps
... En savoir plus
Fascinating Mathematical People

Interviews and Memoirs

Modifié par Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson ...

Top mathematicians talk about their work and livesFascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. The candid portraits collected here demonstrate that while these men and women vary widely in terms of their backgrounds, life stories, and worldviews, they all ... En savoir plus

$38.49 CAD

Top mathematicians talk about their work and livesFascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. The candid portraits collected here demonstrate that while these men and women vary widely in terms of their backgrounds, life stories, and worldviews, they all
... En savoir plus
Handbook of Big Data Technologies

Modifié par Albert Y. Zomaya, Sherif Sakr ...

Collections series Computer Science (R0)
This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of recent advancements in Big Data technologies and related paradigms. Chapters are authored by international leading experts in the field, and have been reviewed and revised for maximum reader value. The volume consists of twenty-five chapters organized into four main parts. Part one covers the fundamental concepts of Big Data technologies including ... En savoir plus

$498.29 CAD

This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of recent advancements in Big Data technologies and related paradigms. Chapters are authored by international leading experts in the field, and have been reviewed and revised for maximum reader value. The volume consists of twenty-five chapters organized into four main parts. Part one covers the fundamental concepts of Big Data technologies including
... En savoir plus
Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

par Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ... En savoir plus

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.”
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Quick Arithmetic

A Self-Teaching Guide

par Robert A. Carman, Marilyn J. Carman ...

Collections Livre 159 - Wiley Self-Teaching Guides
Master math at your own pace!Does working with numbers often frustrate you? Do you need to brush up on your basic math skills? Do you feel math stands between you and your career goals, or a better grade at school?Quick Arithmetic, Third Edition is the quickest and easiest way to teach yourself the basic math skills you need to advance on the job or in school. Using cartoons and a clear writing ... En savoir plus

$20.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

Master math at your own pace!Does working with numbers often frustrate you? Do you need to brush up on your basic math skills? Do you feel math stands between you and your career goals, or a better grade at school?Quick Arithmetic, Third Edition is the quickest and easiest way to teach yourself the basic math skills you need to advance on the job or in school. Using cartoons and a clear writing
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Think Risk

A Practical Guide to Actively Managing Risk

par Shital Thekdi, Terje Aven ...

Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society. People often seek protection from negative risk events, but also seek to take advantage of opportunities arising from positive risk events. We may feel overwhelmed by messages encountered in daily interactions with media and society, contributing to a sense of ambiguity over how to ... En savoir plus

$90.68 CAD

Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society. People often seek protection from negative risk events, but also seek to take advantage of opportunities arising from positive risk events. We may feel overwhelmed by messages encountered in daily interactions with media and society, contributing to a sense of ambiguity over how to
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