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  • How Many Licks?

    Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

    by Aaron Santos ...
    How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here's the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it's all approximate!Using Enrico Fermi's theory of approximation, Santos brings the world of numbers into ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to keep as a handy reference! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: Brush ... Read more

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  • Mind Performance Hacks

    Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain

    by Ron Hale-Evans ...
    You're smart. This book can make you smarter.Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively.Grounded in ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences

    by Dan Romik ...
    Series Book 4 - Institute of Mathematical Statistics Textbooks
    In a surprising sequence of developments, the longest increasing subsequence problem, originally mentioned as merely a curious example in a 1961 paper, has proven to have deep connections to many seemingly unrelated branches of mathematics, such as random permutations, random matrices, Young tableaux, and the corner growth model. The detailed and playful study of these connections makes this book ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations

    Edited by Xiongbiao Luo, Shuo Li, João Manuel R. S. Tavares ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains the full papers presented at the MICCAI 2013 workshop Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations (MWBIVPCS 2013). MWBIVPCS 2013 brought together researchers representing several fields, such as Biomechanics, Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics, Physics and Statistic.The contributions included in this book present and discuss new trends in those fields, using ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Physics of the Piano

    by Prof Nicholas J. Giordano ...
    Why does a piano sound like a piano? A similar question can be asked of virtually all musical instruments. A particular note-such as middle C-can be produced by a piano, a violin, a clarinet, and many other instruments, yet it is easy for even a musically untrained listener to distinguish between these different instruments. A central quest in the study of musical instruments is to understand why ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Classical and Quantum Information

    by Dan C. Marinescu ...
    A new discipline, Quantum Information Science, has emerged in the last two decades of the twentieth century at the intersection of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Quantum Information Processing is an application of Quantum Information Science which covers the transformation, storage, and transmission of quantum information; it represents a revolutionary approach to information ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Mathematics Applied to Engineering

    Edited by Mangey Ram, J. Paulo Davim ...
    Mathematics Applied in Engineering presents a wide array of applied mathematical techniques for an equally wide range of engineering applications, covering areas such as acoustics, system engineering, optimization, mechanical engineering, and reliability engineering. Mathematics acts as a foundation for new advances, as engineering evolves and develops. This book will be of great interest to ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Canonical Ramsey Theory on Polish Spaces

    by Vladimir Kanovei, Marcin Sabok, Jindřich Zapletal ...
    Series Book 202 - Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics
    This book lays the foundations for an exciting new area of research in descriptive set theory. It develops a robust connection between two active topics: forcing and analytic equivalence relations. This in turn allows the authors to develop a generalization of classical Ramsey theory. Given an analytic equivalence relation on a Polish space, can one find a large subset of the space on which it has ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • From Computing to Computational Thinking

    by Paul S. Wang ...
    Computational Thinking (CT) involves fundamental concepts and reasoning, distilled from computer science and other computational sciences, which become powerful general mental tools for solving problems, increasing efficiency, reducing complexity, designing procedures, or interacting with humans and machines. An easy-to-understand guidebook, From Computing to Computational Thinking gives you the ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • Theoretical and Practical Advancements for Fuzzy System Integration

    Edited by Deng-Feng Li ...
    In real management situations, uncertainty is inherently present in decision making. As such, it is increasingly imperative to research and develop new theories and methods of fuzzy sets. Theoretical and Practical Advancements for Fuzzy System Integration is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the importance of expressing and measuring fuzziness in order to develop ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD