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  • A Mind For Numbers

    How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

    by Barbara Oakley PhD ...
    The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand ... Read more

    7,94 €

  • The Signal and the Noise

    The Art and Science of Prediction

    by Nate Silver ...
    The International Bestseller by 'The Galileo of number crunchers' (Independent)Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. The rise of 'big ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Market-Consistent Actuarial Valuation

    by Mario V. Wüthrich ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This is the third edition of this well-received textbook, presenting powerful methods for measuring insurance liabilities and assets in a consistent way, with detailed mathematical frameworks that lead to market-consistent values for liabilities.Topics covered are stochastic discounting with deflators, valuation portfolio in life and non-life insurance, probability distortions, asset and liability ... Read more

    42,92 €

  • GIS-Based Simulation and Analysis of Intra-Urban Commuting

    by Yujie Hu, Fahui Wang ...
    Commuting, the daily link between residences and workplaces, sets up the complex interaction between the two most important land uses (residential and employment) in a city, and dictates the configuration of urban structure. In addition to prolonged time and stress for individual commuters on traffic, commuting comes with additional societal costs including elevated crash risks, worsening air ... Read more

    31,74 €

  • A CONCISE GUIDE TO THE QURAN: Answering Thirty Critical Questions

    by Dr. A. M. Awal PhD ...
    Investigating the authenticity of the Koran from a mathematical standpoint and a numerical point of view, to scientifically and historically verify whether Mohammed wrote the Koran. ... Read more

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  • Linked

    How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

    by Albert-László Barabási ...
    The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social lifeA cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Neuro Design

    Neuromarketing Insights to Boost Engagement and Profitability

    by Darren Bridger ...
    COMMENDED: Business Book Awards 2018 - Thought Leader CategoryToday, businesses of all sizes generate a great deal of creative graphic media and content, including websites, presentations, videos and social media posts. Most big companies, including the likes of Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Tesco and Google, now use neuroscience research and theories to optimize their digital content. Neuro Design ... Read more

    32,96 €

  • Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics

    by Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek, Tom Britton ...
    Series series Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology
    Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology, and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods.Mathematical Tools for ... Read more

    108,43 €

  • Alex's Adventures in Numberland

    Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

    by Alex Bellos ...
    A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist'Will leave you hooked on n... ... Read more

    13,35 €

  • The Ten Equations that Rule the World

    And How You Can Use Them Too

    by David Sumpter ...
    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a secret formula for improving your life? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with your current job, Netflix series, or even relationship?**This book is all about the equations that make our world go round. Ten of them, in ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • A Statistical Handbook for Agricultural Field Trials Specialists

    A handy companion for use with ARM data management tools.

    by Gérard de Kerchove d'Exaerde ...
    In this book we have tried to bring together in a logical and understandable way all the basic statistical elements which affect field trials, their planning, implementation and interpretation. The book is designed to be suitable for Field Trials Specialists, Project Managers who may be interpreting results and students who may be taking their first opportunity to get involved in this type of ... Read more

    29,43 €

  • How Not to Be Wrong

    The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life

    by Jordan Ellenberg ...
    The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface. In How Not to be Wrong, Ellenberg explores the mathematician's method of analyzing ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Why Machines Learn

    The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI

    by Anil Ananthaswamy ...
    'An invaluable companion for anyone who wants a deep understanding of what’s under the hood of often inscrutable machines' Melanie MitchellA rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligenceMachine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour ... Read more

    17,99 €

  • Multivariate Statistics: Theory And Applications - Proceedings Of The Ix Tartu Conference On Multivariate Statistics And Xx International Workshop On Matrices And Statistics

    by Tonu Kollo ...
    The book aims to present a wide range of the newest results on multivariate statistical models, distribution theory and applications of multivariate statistical methods. A paper on Pearson-Kotz-Dirichlet distributions by Professor N Balakrishnan contains main results of the Samuel Kotz Memorial Lecture. Extensions of linear models to multivariate exponential dispersion models and Growth Curve ... Read more

    41,75 €

  • Applied Analysis, Optimization and Soft Computing

    ICNAAO-2021, Varanasi, India, December 21–23

    Edited by Tanmoy Som, Debdas Ghosh, Oscar Castillo, Adrian Petrusel, Dayaram Sahu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains select contributions presented at the International Conference on Nonlinear Applied Analysis and Optimization (ICNAAO-2021), held at the Department of Mathematics Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, from 21–23 December 2021. The book discusses topics in the areas of nonlinear analysis, fixed point theory, dynamical systems, optimization, fractals, ... Read more

    209,87 €

  • Cloud Computing for Engineering Applications

    by Benito A. Stradi-Granados ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explains the use of cloud computing systems for engineering applications to satisfy the need for enterprise level, state-of-the-art computational capacities at an affordable cost. As huge costs are involved in the maintenance and timely renovation of computational capabilities, particularly for projects that require significant computational capacity, cloud services can achieve ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Parallel Algorithms in Computational Science and Engineering

    Edited by Ananth Grama, Ahmed H. Sameh ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This contributed volume highlights two areas of fundamental interest in high-performance computing: core algorithms for important kernels and computationally demanding applications. The first few chapters explore algorithms, numerical techniques, and their parallel formulations for a variety of kernels that arise in applications. The rest of the volume focuses on state-of-the-art applications from ... Read more

    114,47 €

  • Variable Neighborhood Search

    8th International Conference, ICVNS 2021, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 21–25, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by Nenad Mladenovic, Andrei Sleptchenko, Angelo Sifaleras, Mohammed Omar ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2021, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in March 2021.The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers describe recent advances in methods and applications of variable neighborhood search.Chapter “Reduced Variable ... Read more

    57,23 €

  • Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis and Modeling

    by Moses Eterigho Emetere, Esther Titilayo Akinlabi ...
    Series Book 58 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
    This book introduces numerical methods for processing datasets which may be of any form, illustrating adequately computational resolution of environmental alongside the use of open source libraries. This book solves the challenges of misrepresentation of datasets that are relevant directly or indirectly to the research. It illustrates new ways of screening datasets or images for maximum ... Read more

    133,55 €

  • Synchronous Generators and Excitation Systems Operating in a Power System

    Measurement Methods and Modeling

    by Stefan Paszek, Andrzej Boboń, Sebastian Berhausen, Łukasz Majka, Adrian Nocoń, Piotr Pruski ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In simulation tests of dynamic states of the power system (PS), the database of parameters of mathematical models of generating units is most commonly used. In many cases, the parameter values are burdened with large errors. Consequently, the results obtained are not reliable and do not allow drawing true conclusions. This monograph presents the developed methods and tools supporting the process ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Mathematical Theory Of Liquid Interfaces: Liquid Layers, Capillary Interfaces, Floating Drops And Particles

    by Erich Miersemann ...
    This book lays a unique and straightforward mathematical foundation on the aspects of liquid layers, capillary interfaces, floating drops and particles. For the first time, these topics are studied in a joint framework. Readers will acquire deeper comprehension and gain results. Practical interest are presented, making it beneficial to engineers and physicists as well as mathematicians.The text ... Read more

    57,34 €

  • Quantification of Uncertainty: Improving Efficiency and Technology

    QUIET selected contributions

    Edited by Marta D'Elia, Max Gunzburger, Gianluigi Rozza ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explores four guiding themes – reduced order modelling, high dimensional problems, efficient algorithms, and applications – by reviewing recent algorithmic and mathematical advances and the development of new research directions for uncertainty quantification in the context of partial differential equations with random inputs. Highlighting the most promising approaches for (near-) future ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Interactive Natural Language Processing

    Language Model as Agent

    Edited by Zekun Wang, Ge Zhang, Chenghua Lin, Jie Fu ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    This book addresses the emergence of Interactive Natural Language Processing (iNLP) and its novel paradigm within the field of NLP and discusses the limitations in existing frameworks while aligning with the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence. This paradigm considers language models as agents capable of observing, acting, and receiving feedback iteratively from external entities. The book ... Read more

    38,15 €

  • Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis I

    Extended and Selected Results from the Symposium MEIS2013

    Edited by Ken Anjyo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents revised versions of the best papers selected from the symposium “Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis” (MEIS2013) held in Fukuoka, Japan, in 2013. The topics cover various areas of computer graphics (CG), such as surface deformation/editing, character animation, visual simulation of fluids, texture and sound synthesis and photorealistic rendering. From a ... Read more

    85,85 €