Superconnect

Author : Richard Koch
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771095945
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superconnect written by Richard Koch and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Outliers or The Wisdom of Crowds — or internationally bestselling author Richard Koch's many followers — this entertaining book draws on the latest in network science research to show how any of us can increase the chances of success in our personal and work lives. What's so special about the rich and famous? Unusually successful people often think they've done well because of their talent or luck — or simple grit and hard work. But individual characteristics matter far less than the social connections we exploit. And counterintuitively, it's our weak links — your neighbour's landscaper or that ad agency guy you happened to meet at your sister's birthday party last year — that matter most of all. Drawing on research from the fields of sociology, math, and physics, internationally bestselling author and entrepreneur Richard Koch and his co-author Greg Lockwood show how networks impact our everyday lives. Rich with entertaining anecdotes and written in Richard Koch's trademark conversational style, Superconnect reveals the hidden patterns behind everyday events. Most importantly, it shows how any of us can increase the chances of happy outcomes in our own lives, careers, or businesses.

Author : Mary Chayko
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506394841
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life written by Mary Chayko and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live in a superconnected society? Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Second Edition brings together the latest research from many relevant fields to examine how contemporary social life is mediated by various digital technologies: the internet, social media, and mobile devices. The book explores such topics as how digital technology led to the modern information age, information sharing and surveillance, how digital media shape socialization and development of the self, digital divides that separate groups in society, and the impact of digital media across social institutions. The author’s clear, nontechnical discussions and interdisciplinary synthesis make Superconnected an essential text for any course that examines how social life is affected when information and communication technology enter the picture. Dr. Mary Chayko is a sociologist, Teaching Professor of Communication and Information, and Director of Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University. For more on the author and for instructor resources, visit her book blog at http://superconnectedblog.com.

Author : Mary Chayko
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1071805282
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life written by Mary Chayko and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live in a superconnected society? In this new revised, updated edition of Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Mary Chayko continues to explore how social life is impacted when communication and information technology enters the picture. She provides timely analysis of such critical issues as privacy and surveillance, online harassment and abuse, and dependency and addiction, while examining new trends in social media use, global inequalities and divides, online relating and dating, and the internet of things. The new edition highlights such issues as technology and mental health, digital public policy and law, and the author’s own research on bias and stereotyping in digital environments. Throughout, she considers how individuals, families, communities, organizations, and whole societies are affected. The author’s clear, nontechnical discussions and interdisciplinary synthesis make the third edition of Superconnected an essential text for any course that explores how contemporary life is impacted by the internet, social media, mobile devices, and smart technologies. The text is accompanied by the author′s Superconnected Blog (superconnectedblog.com) which includes lecture slides, discussion questions and assignments, and short podcasts for each chapter that summarize key ideas.

Author : Jean-Michel Bismut
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303127234X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coherent Sheaves, Superconnections, and Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck written by Jean-Michel Bismut and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph addresses two significant related questions in complex geometry: the construction of a Chern character on the Grothendieck group of coherent sheaves of a compact complex manifold with values in its Bott-Chern cohomology, and the proof of a corresponding Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck theorem. One main tool used is the equivalence of categories established by Block between the derived category of bounded complexes with coherent cohomology and the homotopy category of antiholomorphic superconnections. Chern-Weil theoretic techniques are then used to construct forms that represent the Chern character. The main theorem is then established using methods of analysis, by combining local index theory with the hypoelliptic Laplacian. Coherent Sheaves, Superconnections, and Riemann-Roch-Grothendieck is an important contribution to both the geometric and analytic study of complex manifolds and, as such, it will be a valuable resource for many researchers in geometry, analysis, and mathematical physics.

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Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Author : CMOS Emerging Technologies Research
Publisher : CMOS Emerging Technologies
ISBN 13 : 1927500303
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CMOSET 2007 Keynote Speakers Track Presentation Slides written by CMOS Emerging Technologies Research and published by CMOS Emerging Technologies. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allie Spencer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446493873
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer Nights written by Allie Spencer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing quite like a holiday with your boyfriend... Flora Fielding can’t wait for Barney to join her in San Francisco so they can begin their dream holiday. Until Barney dumps her, leaving her stranded. Luckily, Flora’s cousin Bella lives in San Francisco and, with nowhere else to go, Flora pitches up at her door. As a singer in an Abba tribute band, Bella’s life is a whirlwind of gigs, sparkly jumpsuits and nights on the town. And as Flora gets caught up in the excitement, she doesn’t have time to worry about her broken heart. In fact, she’s so distracted that before she knows it she’s running along a moonlit beach with a very handsome stranger...

Author : Nicole Berline
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540200628
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators written by Nicole Berline and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first edition of this book, simple proofs of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for Dirac operators on compact Riemannian manifolds and its generalizations (due to the authors and J.-M. Bismut) were presented, using an explicit geometric construction of the heat kernel of a generalized Dirac operator; the new edition makes this popular book available to students and researchers in an attractive paperback.

Author : L. Mangiarotti
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812813749
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connections in Classical and Quantum Field Theory written by L. Mangiarotti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometrical notions and methods play an important role in both classical and quantum field theory, and a connection is a deep structure which apparently underlies the gauge-theoretical models. This collection of basic mathematical facts about various types of connections provides a detailed description of the relevant physical applications. It discusses the modern issues concerning the gauge theories of fundamental interactions. This text presents several levels of complexity, from the elementary to the advanced, and provides a considerable number of exercises. The authors have tried to give all the necessary mathematical background, thus making the book self-contained. This book should be useful to graduate students, physicists and mathematicians who are interested in the issue of deep interrelations between theoretical physics and geometry.

Author : Jean-Michel Bismut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319001280
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hypoelliptic Laplacian and Bott–Chern Cohomology written by Jean-Michel Bismut and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides the proof of a complex geometric version of a well-known result in algebraic geometry: the theorem of Riemann–Roch–Grothendieck for proper submersions. It gives an equality of cohomology classes in Bott–Chern cohomology, which is a refinement for complex manifolds of de Rham cohomology. When the manifolds are Kähler, our main result is known. A proof can be given using the elliptic Hodge theory of the fibres, its deformation via Quillen's superconnections, and a version in families of the 'fantastic cancellations' of McKean–Singer in local index theory. In the general case, this approach breaks down because the cancellations do not occur any more. One tool used in the book is a deformation of the Hodge theory of the fibres to a hypoelliptic Hodge theory, in such a way that the relevant cohomological information is preserved, and 'fantastic cancellations' do occur for the deformation. The deformed hypoelliptic Laplacian acts on the total space of the relative tangent bundle of the fibres. While the original hypoelliptic Laplacian discovered by the author can be described in terms of the harmonic oscillator along the tangent bundle and of the geodesic flow, here, the harmonic oscillator has to be replaced by a quartic oscillator. Another idea developed in the book is that while classical elliptic Hodge theory is based on the Hermitian product on forms, the hypoelliptic theory involves a Hermitian pairing which is a mild modification of intersection pairing. Probabilistic considerations play an important role, either as a motivation of some constructions, or in the proofs themselves.