Mathematics
epub |eng | 2012-07-03 | Author:Newman, E. C. [Newman, E. C.]

* * * “Hey, fatty.” I sighed heavily and turned to see Summer Harlan walking to my locker. “My name is still Sophie,” I said bravely. “Whatever. So what’s up ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1955-02-01 | Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]

Chapter 16 NEXT DAY NEXT day Tala took the boat farther on down the river. They went very slowly, for Chaldo was only half a day’s run, and they did ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 26,2014 )
epub |rus | 1993-10-16 | Author:Huff, Darrell & Irving Geis [Huff, Darrell]

You have achieved something remarkable by careful use of a semiattached figure. The worse things get, the better your poll makes them look. Or take this one: “27 per cent ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Levitt, Steven [Steven, Levitt,]

FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Chapter 5 What Makes a Perfect Parent? Has there ever been another art so devoutly converted into a science as ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

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 March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-16 | Author:Bensoussan, Babette E. & Fleisher, Craig S. [Bensoussan, Babette E.]

Issues Distance Approach One approach is to look at issues based on the distance between the organization and the issues under consideration. Issues would then be placed into three broad ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

Statistical Trends One of the problems with comparisons of national output over some span of time is the arbitrary choice of the year to use as the beginning of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Benoit Mandelbrot [Mandelbrot, Benoit B.]

Father Dies in 1951 Shepherding me toward Philips became the last in the long series of gifts from Father. I don’t recall either him or Mother being sick in bed ...
( Category: Fractals March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Masha Gessen [Gessen, Masha]

Perelman's term as a Miller Fellow ended in the spring of 1995. His paper on the Soul Conjecture had come out the previous year, and he had spoken at the ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-15 | Author:Sylvia Nasar [Nasar, Sylvia]

At first, it seemed like just another one of Nash’s cryptic, disorganized performances, more free association than exposition. But halfway through, something happened. Donald Newman recalled in 1996: One word ...
( Category: Game Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Samuel Arbesman [Arbesman, Samuel]

. . . THERE are all sorts of mathematical models for physical systems. Some try to actually mimic the complex mess we see around us, the most well-known of these ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

Hmm. Maybe Ford was trying to get a reputation as a philanthropist? It’s another plausible-sounding theory. He was a rich man, after all, and his five-dollar working day made him ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Lorenzo Fioramonti

CHAPTER 4 Change from below I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. … This is ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:Orson Scott Card

14 PLAYING POOL Mack had a cold dream that night, and it was Yolanda White’s dream. In the dream, Yo Yo rode a powerful horse across a prairie, with herds ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )