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  • Taking Sudoku Seriously

    The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle

    by Jason Rosenhouse, Laura Taalman ...
    Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics. How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three blocks can serve as acceptable Sudoku regions? What is the fewest number of starting clues a ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle

    The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle

    by Jason Rosenhouse, Laura Taalman ...
    Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics. How many Sudoku solution squares are there? What shapes other than three-by-three blocks can serve as acceptable Sudoku regions? What is the fewest number of starting clues a ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

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  • Alan M. Turing

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    by Sara Turing, John Turing ...
    'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since ... Read more

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  • The Arts of Truth

    by Rud Istvan ...
    This book is a primer on critical thinking. Without it, the Internet is only a misinformation highway. The dark arts of untruthfulness are ubiquitous in official information. The general techniques used to distort or misrepresent truth are conceptually explored, illustrated by dozens of examples covering a wide range of subjects. Does classroom size reduction improve education? Can tight oil shale ... Read more

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  • Electrical Load Forecasting

    Modeling and Model Construction

    by S.A. Soliman ...
    Succinct and understandable, this book is a step-by-step guide to the mathematics and construction of electrical load forecasting models. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, Electrical Load Forecasting provides a brief discussion of algorithms, their advantages and disadvantages and when they are best utilized. The book begins with a good description of the basic theory ... Read more

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  • A Logical Introduction to Proof

    by Daniel W. Cunningham ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book is intended for students who want to learn how to prove theorems and be better prepared for the rigors required in more advance mathematics. One of the key components in this textbook is the development of a methodology to lay bare the structure underpinning the construction of a proof, much as diagramming a sentence lays bare its grammatical structure. Diagramming a proof is a way of ... Read more

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  • Inductive Fuzzy Classification in Marketing Analytics

    by Michael Kaufmann ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    To enhance marketing analytics, approximate and inductive reasoning can be applied to handle uncertainty in individual marketing models. This book demonstrates the use of fuzzy logic for classification and segmentation in marketing campaigns. Based on practical experience as a data analyst and on theoretical studies as a researcher, the author explains fuzzy classification, inductive logic and the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Benford's Law

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by Steven J. Miller ...
    Benford's law states that the leading digits of many data sets are not uniformly distributed from one through nine, but rather exhibit a profound bias. This bias is evident in everything from electricity bills and street addresses to stock prices, population numbers, mortality rates, and the lengths of rivers. Here, Steven Miller brings together many of the world’s leading experts on Benford’s law ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • Combinatorial Algebra: Syntax and Semantics

    by Mark V. Sapir, Victor S. Guba, Mikhail V. Volkov ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Combinatorial Algebra: Syntax and Semantics provides comprehensive account of many areas of combinatorial algebra. It contains self-contained proofs of more than 20 fundamental results, both classical and modern. This includes Golod–Shafarevich and Olshanskii's solutions of Burnside problems, Shirshov's solution of Kurosh's problem for PI rings, Belov's solution of Specht's problem for varieties ... Read more

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  • Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web III

    ISWC International Workshops, URSW 2011-2013, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Fernando Bobillo, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Paulo C.G. Costa, Michael Pool, Matthias Nickles, Kenneth J. Laskey, Claudia d'Amato, Rommel N. Carvalho ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book contains revised and significantly extended versions of selected papers from three workshops on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), held at the International Semantic Web Conferences (ISWC) in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The 16 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on ... Read more

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  • Digital Doodles and Mind-Farts

    --Coffee Talk--

    by Prince Tippy ...
    This book is a compilation of the author’s many observations, and all the crazy ideas that he has had in his lifetime, that he has been posting on his blog digitaldoodlesandmind-farts.blogspot.com. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD