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Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

(Annotated and Illustrated) (Active TOC) (Prometheus Classics)

de Isaac Newton ...

Traducido por Andrew Motte ...

The Principia is "justly regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science". The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 ... Leer más

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The Principia is "justly regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science". The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton also published two further editions, in 1713
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Basic Calculus of Planetary Orbits and Interplanetary Flight

The Missions of the Voyagers, Cassini, and Juno

de Alexander J. Hahn ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Intended for a one- or two-semester course, this text applies basic, one-variable calculus to analyze the motion both of planets in their orbits as well as interplanetary spacecraft in their trajectories. The remarkable spacecraft missions to the inner and outermost reaches of our solar system have been one of the greatest success stories of modern human history. Much of the underlying ... Leer más

$58.49 USD

Intended for a one- or two-semester course, this text applies basic, one-variable calculus to analyze the motion both of planets in their orbits as well as interplanetary spacecraft in their trajectories. The remarkable spacecraft missions to the inner and outermost reaches of our solar system have been one of the greatest success stories of modern human history. Much of the underlying
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Pre-Calculus Know-It-ALL

de Stan Gibilisco ...

Master pre-calculus from the comfort of home!Want to "know it ALL" when it comes to pre-calculus? This book gives you the expert, one-on-one instruction you need, whether you're new to pre-calculus or you're looking to ramp up your skills. Providing easy-to-understand concepts and thoroughly explained exercises, math whiz Stan Gibilisco serves as your own private tutor--without the expense! His ... Leer más

$28.09 USD

Master pre-calculus from the comfort of home!Want to "know it ALL" when it comes to pre-calculus? This book gives you the expert, one-on-one instruction you need, whether you're new to pre-calculus or you're looking to ramp up your skills. Providing easy-to-understand concepts and thoroughly explained exercises, math whiz Stan Gibilisco serves as your own private tutor--without the expense! His
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Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One

de Albert Rutherford ...

Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn't understand complex formulas?Don't let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a ... Leer más

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Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn't understand complex formulas?Don't let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a
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Math Without Numbers

de Milo Beckman ...

An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math"The only numbers in this book are the page numbers.Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively ... Leer más

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An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math"The only numbers in this book are the page numbers.Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively
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The End of Average

How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

de Todd Rose ...

Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our ... Leer más

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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Learning to Learn

de Richard W. Hamming ...

A groundbreaking treatise by one of the great mathematicians of our age, who outlines a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived.What inspires and spurs on a great idea? Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge?Richard Hamming said we can. He first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in ... Leer más

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A groundbreaking treatise by one of the great mathematicians of our age, who outlines a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived.What inspires and spurs on a great idea? Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge?Richard Hamming said we can. He first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in
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Models of the Mind

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$14.29 USD

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
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A Brief History of Infinity

The Quest to Think the Unthinkable

de Brian Clegg ...

Series series Brief Histories
'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the GalaxyWe human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians have gone mad contemplating ... Leer más

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'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the GalaxyWe human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians have gone mad contemplating
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Unequal

The Math of When Things Do and Don't Add Up

de Eugenia Cheng ...

Why the familiar equal sign is a gateway into math’s—and humanity’s—most profound questions  "Eugenia Cheng has opened up my mind to the wondrous world of pure mathematics in a way that I never thought was possible." ―Willow Smith, singer and actress  A New Scientist Best Book of the Year **Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a^2 + b^2 = c^2, or y = mx + b. It can seem like that’s all ... Leer más

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Why the familiar equal sign is a gateway into math’s—and humanity’s—most profound questions  "Eugenia Cheng has opened up my mind to the wondrous world of pure mathematics in a way that I never thought was possible." ―Willow Smith, singer and actress  A New Scientist Best Book of the Year **Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a^2 + b^2 = c^2, or y = mx + b. It can seem like that’s all
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The Golden Ticket

P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

de Lance Fortnow ...

The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron ... Leer más

$15.09 USD

The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron
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Understanding Analysis

de Stephen Abbott ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This lively introductory text exposes the student to the rewards of a rigorous study of functions of a real variable. In each chapter, informal discussions of questions that give analysis its inherent fascination are followed by precise, but not overly formal, developments of the techniques needed to make sense of them. By focusing on the unifying themes of approximation and the resolution of ... Leer más

$40.49 USD

This lively introductory text exposes the student to the rewards of a rigorous study of functions of a real variable. In each chapter, informal discussions of questions that give analysis its inherent fascination are followed by precise, but not overly formal, developments of the techniques needed to make sense of them. By focusing on the unifying themes of approximation and the resolution of
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The Shape of Inner Space

String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

de Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis ...

String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist, argues that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is ... Leer más

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String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist, argues that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is
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Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

From Theory to Practice

Edición de Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen, Steven W. Popper ...

This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Leer más

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This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools
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How to Think About Analysis

de Lara Alcock ...

Analysis (sometimes called Real Analysis or Advanced Calculus) is a core subject in most undergraduate mathematics degrees. It is elegant, clever and rewarding to learn, but it is hard. Even the best students find it challenging, and those who are unprepared often find it incomprehensible at first. This book aims to ensure that no student need be unprepared. It is not like other Analysis books. It ... Leer más

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Analysis (sometimes called Real Analysis or Advanced Calculus) is a core subject in most undergraduate mathematics degrees. It is elegant, clever and rewarding to learn, but it is hard. Even the best students find it challenging, and those who are unprepared often find it incomprehensible at first. This book aims to ensure that no student need be unprepared. It is not like other Analysis books. It
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Meta Math!

The Quest for Omega

de Gregory Chaitin ...

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of
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Learning Spark

de Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, Denny Lee ...

Data is bigger, arrives faster, and comes in a variety of formatsâ??and it all needs to be processed at scale for analytics or machine learning. But how can you process such varied workloads efficiently? Enter Apache Spark.Updated to include Spark 3.0, this second edition shows data engineers and data scientists why structure and unification in Spark matters. Specifically, this book explains how ... Leer más

$48.99 USD

Data is bigger, arrives faster, and comes in a variety of formatsâ??and it all needs to be processed at scale for analytics or machine learning. But how can you process such varied workloads efficiently? Enter Apache Spark.Updated to include Spark 3.0, this second edition shows data engineers and data scientists why structure and unification in Spark matters. Specifically, this book explains how
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Escape from Shadow Physics

The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory

de Adam Kay ...

**The "artfully written...splendid history of classical and quantum physics" (Science)that "rightfully highlights the limitations of current physics" (Wall Street Journal) and argues for a revolutionary new understanding of quantum mechanics **The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

**The "artfully written...splendid history of classical and quantum physics" (Science)that "rightfully highlights the limitations of current physics" (Wall Street Journal) and argues for a revolutionary new understanding of quantum mechanics **The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the
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Schaum's 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus

de Elliott Mendelson ...

Facing Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Solved Problem book helps you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams! ... Leer más

$37.49 USD

Facing Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Solved Problem book helps you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams!
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The Real Numbers

An Introduction to Set Theory and Analysis

de John Stillwell ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
While most texts on real analysis are content to assume the real numbers, or to treat them only briefly, this text makes a serious study of the real number system and the issues it brings to light. Analysis needs the real numbers to model the line, and to support the concepts of continuity and measure. But these seemingly simple requirements lead to deep issues of set theory—uncountability, the ... Leer más

$28.49 USD

While most texts on real analysis are content to assume the real numbers, or to treat them only briefly, this text makes a serious study of the real number system and the issues it brings to light. Analysis needs the real numbers to model the line, and to support the concepts of continuity and measure. But these seemingly simple requirements lead to deep issues of set theory—uncountability, the
... Leer más
THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (Illustrated and Extended with The Wealth of Nations and On The Origin of Species)

de Isaac Newton ...

The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following books:THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY – Isaac NewtonThe History of the Ancient Physics - Adam SmithThe History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics - Adam SmithOf the EXTERNAL SENSES - Adam SmithOf the NATURE of that IMITATION which takes place in what are called THE IMITATIVE ARTS - Ada ... Leer más

$2.49 USD

The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following books:THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY – Isaac NewtonThe History of the Ancient Physics - Adam SmithThe History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics - Adam SmithOf the EXTERNAL SENSES - Adam SmithOf the NATURE of that IMITATION which takes place in what are called THE IMITATIVE ARTS - Ada
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Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus, Third Edition

de Robert C. Wrede, Murray R. Spiegel ...

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of ... Leer más

$15.59 USD

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of
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How Nature Works

the science of self-organized criticality

de Per Bak ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined statistical laws. The aim of the science of self-organized criticality is to yield insight into the fundamental question of why nature is complex, not ... Leer más

$53.99 USD

and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined statistical laws. The aim of the science of self-organized criticality is to yield insight into the fundamental question of why nature is complex, not
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Bayes Theorem Examples

A Concise Guide for Complete Beginners

de Donald Stan ...

Bayes theorem is a method used to solve conditional probability, Conditional probability is the probability that an event will happen, provided it has some relationship with one or more other events, for example, the probability of getting a parking space is related to the time of the day you park, where you park, and other things going on at any timeBayes theorem is slightly more accurate, that ... Leer más

$2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Bayes theorem is a method used to solve conditional probability, Conditional probability is the probability that an event will happen, provided it has some relationship with one or more other events, for example, the probability of getting a parking space is related to the time of the day you park, where you park, and other things going on at any timeBayes theorem is slightly more accurate, that
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