Physics
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Emanuel Derman [Derman, Emanuel]

To hedge one option with another, firms like Goldman needed a model that told you each option's value and its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The renowned Black-Scholes model ...
( Category: Business March 20,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-26 | Author:Paul A. M. Dirac

DR. DIRAC Lecture No. 3 QUANTIZATION ON CURVED SURFACES We started off with a classical action principle. We took our action integral to be Lorentz-invariant. This action gives us a ...
( Category: Physics March 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-04-10 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [KRAUSS, LAWRENCE M.]

12. COOKING WITH GAS The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. CLAUDE BERNARD, ...
( Category: Cosmology March 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

From the measured tones of this statement, Draper descended into virulent anti-Catholicism and a near proclamation of war: Will modern civilization consent to abandon the career of advancement which has ...
( Category: Philosophy March 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-19 | Author:Popper, Karl [Popper, Karl]

There appears to be a comparatively simple crucial experiment for deciding between the 'theory of indeterminacy' (described above) and the quantum theory. According to the former theory, photons would arrive ...
( Category: Philosophy March 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-01 | Author:Tiner, John Hudson [Tiner, John Hudson]

A slinky helps us understand the appearance of sound waves by the way it moves. As people grow older, or if they have been exposed to loud noise over a ...
( Category: Physics March 6,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jane Hawking [Hawking, Jane]

5 Celtic Woodland It was obvious: we were living on the edge of a precipice. Yet it is possible even on the edge of a precipice to put down roots ...
( Category: Scientists March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Martin Plimmer

3 FANCY MEETING YOU HERE It’s not just a small world. It’s a small world with billions of people in it. At the time of writing this sentence there were, ...
( Category: Chaos Theory March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Shachtman [Shachtman, Tom]

In his maturity, James Dewar claimed that his most formative early experience was the long illness brought on by his falling through the ice of a pond in 1852, when ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 4,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Menke, William [Menke, William]

(7.32) The matrix U is an N × N matrix of eigenvectors that span the data space S(d): (7.33) where the u(i)s are the individual vectors. The vectors are orthogonal ...
( Category: Geophysics March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:John R. Pierce

Fig. VIII-5 Codes can be devised which can be used to correct larger numbers of errors in a block of transmitted characters. Of course, more check digits are needed to ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:White, Michael [White, Michael]

Figure 11. Newton’s representation of the comet’s elliptical path. What role did alchemy play at this stage of Newton’s reasoning? He never stopped experimenting, but interspersed periods observing comets and ...
( Category: Scientists February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clifford A. Pickover

Figure 5.3 A 4-D being would be the ultimate Houdini and could knot or unknot a string by temporarily lifting it into the fourth dimension. On the left is a ...
( Category: Astronomy February 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Shaw, Montgomery T. [Shaw, Montgomery T.]

(b) What influence would kinetic energy have on the Bagley plot and the corrected shear stress? 7–11. In the Couette fixture, the bob design featuring a cone on the bottom ...
( Category: Fluid Dynamics February 13,2015 )
epub, pdf | | | Author:Roberto Trotta [Trotta, Roberto]

In the time it takes you to blink, the number of dark matter drops that fly through your hand is two times the number of people living today in the ...
( Category: Cosmology February 12,2015 )