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Author : Mark Kac
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059863
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Enigmas of Chance written by Mark Kac and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Kac
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ISBN 13 : 9780465019816
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Enigmas of Chance written by Mark Kac and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography covers the life of Mark Kac, the Polish mathematician known best for his interest in probability theory. His question, "Can you hear the shape of a drum?"set the stage for research into spectral theory.
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Total Pages : 163 pages
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Download or read book Enigmas of chance written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821829181
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kolmogorov in Perspective written by and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editorial board for the History of Mathematics series has selected for this volume a series of translations from two Russian publications, Kolmogorov in Remembrance and Mathematics and its Historical Development. This book, Kolmogorov in Perspective, includes articles written by Kolmogorov's students and colleagues and his personal accounts of shared experiences and lifelong mathematical friendships. The articles combine to give an excellent personal and scientific biography of this important mathematician. There is also an extensive bibliography with the complete list of Kolmogorov's work.
Author : Martin H Krieger
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814571865
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doing Mathematics written by Martin H Krieger and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and employ, all depend on the mathematics — what will work out and what won't. The cases studied include the central limit theorem of statistics, the sound of the shape of a drum, the connections between algebra and topology, and the series of rigorous proofs of the stability of matter. The many and varied solutions to the two-dimensional Ising model of ferromagnetism make sense as a whole when they are seen in an analogy developed by Richard Dedekind in the 1880s to algebraicize Riemann's function theory; by Robert Langlands' program in number theory and representation theory; and, by the analogy between one-dimensional quantum mechanics and two-dimensional classical statistical mechanics. In effect, we begin to see "an identity in a manifold presentation of profiles," as the phenomenologists would say. This second edition deepens the particular examples; it describe the practical role of mathematical rigor; it suggests what might be a mathematician's philosophy of mathematics; and, it shows how an "ugly" first proof or derivation embodies essential features, only to be appreciated after many subsequent proofs. Natural scientists and mathematicians trade physical models and abstract objects, remaking them to suit their needs, discovering new roles for them as in the recent case of the Painlevé transcendents, the Tracy-Widom distribution, and Toeplitz determinants. And mathematics has provided the models and analogies, the ordinary language, for describing the everyday world, the structure of cities, or God's infinitude. Contents:IntroductionConvention: How Means and Variances are Entrenched as StatisticsSubject: The Fields of TopologyAppendix: The Two-Dimensional Ising Model of a FerromagnetCalculation: Strategy, Structure, and Tactics in Applying Classical AnalysisAnalogy: A Syzygy Between a Research Program in Mathematics and a Research Program in PhysicsIn Concreto: The City of MathematicsAppendices:The Spontaneous Magnetization of a Two-Dimensional Ising Model (C N Yang)On the Dirac and Schwinger Corrections to the Ground-State Energy of an Atom (C Fefferman and L A Seco)Sur la Forme des Espaces Topologiques et sur les Points Fixes des Représentations (J Leray)Une Lettre à Simone Weil (A Weil) Readership: Mathematicians, physicists, philosophers and historians of science. Keywords:Means and Variances;Topology;SyzygyReviews: Reviews of the First Edition: "The book Doing Mathematics, by Martin Krieger is truly a masterpiece. He has not only explained ways of doing mathematical work to aspiring mathematicians and the intelligent laymen, but has also shown how various pieces of research work are related to each other. Even experts may not have realized such inter-relations. The cases studied include, especially, the stability of matter and the Ising model, two topics of great depth. Such clear explanations cannot be found anywhere else. Furthermore, his style of writing makes the book exceptionally enjoyable to read." T T Wu Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Professor of Physics, Harvard University, USA "This is the first time I have seen a mathematician deal substantively with the issue of mathematics as culturally based, and he does it superbly and mathematically … Although this book is no easy read, it is well worth the effort, and I am sure it will stimulate and inform, perhaps even surprise, the most sophisticated of mathematical readers. It is refreshing to find such a book being published." Mathematical Reviews "Both challenging and provocative reading, Doing Mathematics sheds bright light on some of the main characteristics of the mathematical quest." Library of Science "Krieger has made some effort to accommodate different levels of readers; for example, structuring his text so that lay readers are alerted to sections that can be safely skipped and paragraphs that provide nontechnical summaries." Mathematical Association of America
Author : Giulio Di Martino
Publisher : White Star Editions
ISBN 13 : 9788854409361
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World's Greatest Enigmas written by Giulio Di Martino and published by White Star Editions. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites the reader on a journey into mystery and wonder. It pursues the great questions that have always troubled humanity: what came before us? What is the history we are unaware of? How did the flourishing civilisations of the past rise and then suddenly disappear? What are the hidden messages that our ancestors left us? This journey will touch on 52 locations, some of which are remote or inaccessible, rich in history and charm. Some host enigmatic presences such as the gigantic prehistoric remains of the English countryside; the underwater ruins off the coast of Japan; the inexplicable Nazca lines in the Peruvian desert; the timeless faces of Easter Island's Moai; the real Count Dracula's castle; and the deep waters of Loch Ness in Scotland that may be home to a prehistoric creature. The author's engaging and comprehensive text, which reflects the time he has devoted to researching the most fascinating mysteries of history, science and archaeology, will guide the reader on a quest to discover the characters, signs and ruins that paint a picture of a planet that is filled with puzzles waiting to be resolved. AUTHOR: Giulio Di Martino has written for Voyager, the successful television program broadcast on Italy's Rai2, since 2003. He has travelled all over the world, producing documentaries about the most fascinating mysteries of history, science and archaeology. One of these, Easter Island, was also published as a book. He also writes film scripts, TV dramas, and articles for the most popular science magazines. 52 colour photos
Author : N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623004X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chaos and Order written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the science of chaos. They examine how changing ideas of order and disorder enable new readings of scientific and literary texts, from Newton's Principia to Ruskin's autobiography, from Victorian serial fiction to Borges's short stories. N. Katherine Hayles traces shifts in meaning that chaos has undergone within the Western tradition, suggesting that the science of chaos articulates categories that cannot be assimilated into the traditional dichotomy of order and disorder. She and her contributors take the relation between order and disorder as a theme and develop its implications for understanding texts, metaphors, metafiction, audience response, and the process of interpretation itself. Their innovative and diverse work opens the interdisciplinary field of chaotics to literary inquiry.
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Enigmatical entertainer and mathematical associate written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Flenley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780192803405
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Enigmas of Easter Island written by John Flenley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easter Island, an isolated speck in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood of ancient cultures. Who were the inhabitants of this unimaginably remote volcanic island? Where did they come from? What, and equally intriguing, how did they erect the giant stone statues found all over the island? And what became of their civilization? - ;Easter Island, an unimaginably remote volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, produced one of the most fascinating and yet least understood prehistoric cultures. Who were its inhabitants, and where did they come from? Why, and equally intriguingly, how did they erect the giant stone statues found all over the island? Paul Bahn and John Flenley tackle these and a host of other questions, introducing us, along the way, to the bizarre birdman cult found in the island's art, and the only recently deciphered Rongorongo script engraved on wooden panels. The Enigmas of Easter Island combines a wealth of new archaeological evidence, intriguing folk memories and the records of Captain Cook and other early explorers, to reveal how the island's decline may stem from ecological catastrophe. The result is a fascinating portrait of a civilization which still retains many of its mysteries. This book, originally published in 1992, was hailed as the best account of Easter Island ever written. Now it has been brought substantially up to date with a wealth of new material. -
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674910768
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Truth and Other Enigmas written by Michael Dummett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all but two of the author's philosophical essays and lectures originally published or presented before August 1976.
