Mathematics
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Ariely

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-04-23 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

18. Die elementare Verbindung Stellen wir uns einmal vor, wir lebten in einer Welt, die von Diwasserstoffoxid beherrscht wird, einer geschmack- und geruchlosen Verbindung mit so vielfältigen Eigenschaften, dass sie ...
( Category: Mathematics November 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Mark Ryan [Ryan, Mark]

The Two Equidistance Theorems Although congruent triangles are the focus of this chapter, in this section, I give you two theorems that you can often use instead of proving triangles ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Plato

* * * One more aspect of the Timaeus remains to be considered--the mythological or geographical. Is it not a wonderful thing that a few pages of one of Plato's ...
( Category: Greek & Roman October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Michael O'Shea

12. Eye and retina. Light entering the eye passes through two layers of neurons in the retina before reaching the light-sensitive photoreceptors – the rods and cones. Information about the ...
( Category: Neurology October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:James Essinger [Essinger, James]

By the end of 1834, the Analytical Engine was not the only thing on Ada’s mind. She had turned nineteen on December 10. Lady Byron was determined that the time ...
( Category: Scientists October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Pallant, Julie [Pallant, Julie]

In Chapter 13, on multiple regression, we explored a technique to assess the impact of a set of predictors on a dependent variable (perceived stress). In that case, the dependent ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-17 | Author:Robert Crease

Here the famous equation – energy is equal to the mass times the speed of light squared – appears with the corrective factor ß, which takes into account the effect ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Yang Kuang, PhD

Every trig ratio can be written as a combination of sines and/or cosines, so changing all the functions in an equation to sines and cosines is the simplifying strategy that ...
( Category: Pre-Calculus October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Bellos

It gives an approximation for the value of n!, the factorial of n, which as we saw above is the number you get when you multiply 1 × 2 × ...
( Category: Cultural October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Piers Anthony;Mark Winston

( Category: Fractals October 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Ken and Jay would be talking about the intricacies of some aspect of programming language—like trying to figure out, when somebody says “List by customer,” what that really means. Does ...
( Category: Hacking October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Steve Jobs was convinced that Macintosh was the final showdown at the Computer Corral. It was Apple versus IBM, to the death. He was annoyed at having to defend Macintosh ...
( Category: Scientists October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-11-29 | Author:Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine [Swaine, Paul Freiberger and Michael]

Then, too, they could see that it might be a commercial success. So Cooper built and Kildall programmed, and they came up with their astrology machine, which would stand in ...
( Category: PCs October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 1988-11-15 | Author:Jeffrey Young [Young, Jeffrey]

He also annoyed Smith and Tribble by handing them their notification of raises even though he was not their manager at the time. 6. He interrupts and doesn't listen. This ...
( Category: Mathematics October 13,2014 )