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| The Essential Classics: An Anthology of Greco-Roman Literature |
A beautiful hardback edition, 644 pages consisting of the greatest Ancient Greek and Latin texts all compiled in one convenient location, the Essential Classics will be a welcome edition to any home library or office.
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The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt
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| The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt |
Built at the end of the last ice age around 9600 BCE, Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey was designed to align with the constellation of the celestial swan, Cygnus—a fact confirmed by the discovery at the site of a tiny bone plaque carved with the three key stars of Cygnus. Remarkably, the three main pyramids at Giza in Egypt, including the Great Pyramid, align with the same three stars. But where did this ancient veneration of Cygnus come from?
Showing that Cygnus was once seen as a portal to the sky-world, Andrew Collins reveals how, at both sites, the attention toward this star group is linked with sound acoustics and the use of musical intervals “discovered” thousands of years later by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras.
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New Books available from Cambridge University Press
Discrete Harmonic Analysis
Representations, Number Theory, Expanders, and the Fourier Transform
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| Discrete Harmonic Analysis |
With numerous examples, figures, and over 160 exercises to aid understanding, this book will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in mathematics, engineering, and computer science.
- Provides a self-contained, unified treatment of finite Abelian Groups, finite fields, Discrete and Fast Fourier Transforms, and applications to number theory, spectral graph theory and expanders, and representation theory of finite groups
- Includes a well-rounded set of examples and over 160 exercises
- Develops the reader's understanding from the fundamentals to the frontiers of current research
The Mathieu Groups
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| The Mathieu Groups |
The material is presented in such a way that it guides the reader smoothly and intuitively through the process, leading to a deeper understanding of the topic.
- The author's intuitive approach helps the reader to fully understand the amalgam method
- This geometric treatment will enable the reader to get to grips with the object as a whole
- Serves as a reference for postgraduate students and researchers in group theory
A Short Course in Differential Topology
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| A Short Course in Differential Topology |
The treatment is hands-on, including many concrete examples and exercises woven into the text, with hints provided to guide the student.
- Provides a concise and modern treatment of the subject, focussing on examples and understanding over equations
- Examples, exercises and hints make the book ideal for self-study
- The book is accessible to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students
Geometries and Transformations
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| Geometries and Transformations |
Written for graduate students, the book includes numerous exercises and covers both classical results and new research in the field. An understanding of analytic geometry, linear algebra, and elementary group theory is assumed.
- Provides a unified framework for describing Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries
- Demonstrates the interconnectedness of different geometries using linear algebra
- Includes both classical results and contemporary research, as well as numerous exercises
Enjoy your reading!
Source: Ancient Origins and Cambridge University Press
