Mathematics
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Rosenthal Ph.D., Edward C.

Since we worked out Shapley value examples in Chapter 12, we will not do more of them here. In some cases, like the two preceding examples, the Shapley-Shubik Power Index ...
( Category: Game Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-06 | Author:Mario Livio

CHAPTER 6 GEOMETERS: FUTURE SHOCK In his famous book Future Shock, author Alvin Toffler defined the term in the title as “the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian Stewart

The circumstantial evidence in favour of the truth of the Riemann hypothesis – either the original, or its generalisations – is extensive. Many beautiful things would follow from the truth ...
( Category: Number Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:James Burke

In 1763 the end of the Seven Years War meant that the government was no longer in urgent need of capital, so the rate of interest on borrowed money fell ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Charles Seife

A close election is the ideal breeding ground for proofiness of all kinds. When lawyers declared that the fluctuating vote totals in the Minnesota election were “statistically dubious”—implying that they ...
( Category: Logic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

THOUGH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY represented a revolution in ideas about randomness, Thomas Bayes was no revolutionary, and his work languished unattended despite its publication in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions in 1764. ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:John D. Barrow

LAMBDA – A NEW COSMIC FORCE “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible ...
( Category: Number Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-12 | Author:Shing-tung Yau; Steve Nadi

Homological mirror symmetry was first unveiled by Kontsevich in 1993 and has been developing ever since, sparking considerable activity in both physics and math. Mirror symmetry, as originally formulated, didn’t ...
( Category: Geometry & Topology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:A. A. Attanasio

Madoc places a set of black headphones over his head, covering his ears. “Are you comfortable?” Madoc asks, adjusting a tiny microphone that snakes around his cheek. Heath hears the ...
( Category: Computer Science March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1964-01-01 | Author:Borges, Jorge Luis [Borges, Jorge Luis]

Postscript (1950). ― Among the commentaries elicited by the preceding publication, the most curious, if not the most urbane, is biblically entitled A Coat of Many Colors (Manchester, 1948) and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1998-10-24 | Author:Patricia Cornwell

( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:Neal Stephenson

I have just been interrupted for some minutes by an acquaintance, one Mr. Threader. He is flitting and hopping about Waghorn’s and the Lobby like a sparrow whose nest has ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Danielle Steel

They were on the dock with her trunks and his luggage several hours before the boat was scheduled to leave. The weather had been stormy for several days, but hurricane ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2005-12-13 | Author:Ian Caldwell; Dustin Thomason

In the aftermath of the debacle surrounding the portmaster’s diary, Taft moved from Manhattan into a white clapboard house at the Institute, a mile southwest of the Princeton campus. Maybe ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Ian Caldwell; Dustin Thomason

In the aftermath of the debacle surrounding the portmaster’s diary, Taft moved from Manhattan into a white clapboard house at the Institute, a mile southwest of the Princeton campus. Maybe ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )