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| Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code |
The Da Vinci Code has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined.
Sacred Geometry offers an accessible way of understanding how that connection is revealed in nature and the arts.
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Time Maps: Australia, Early Sea Voyage and Invasions
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| Australia, Early Sea Voyages and Invasions Time Maps) (Volume 2) |
Dr. R.K. Fisher and Martini Fisher re-discover humanity from the very beginning. Following “Time Maps: History, Prehistory and Biological Evolution”, “Time Maps: Australia, Early Sea Travels and Invasions” discusses evidences of early people and sea travels – discovering that, despite the modern invention of the internet, we are not more “connected” than our ancestors.
Chapters included are:
•Australia and Early Sea Voyages
•Megalithic Culture
•Kurgans and Indoeuropeans
•Indoeuropeans and Sumerian Invasions
Written with a Mathematician’s precision and a Historian’s curiosity.
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Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality
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| Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality |
Yet these different literatures have remained relatively insulated from each other. Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality brings them into dialog by focusing on the theme of rationality. It contains eleven newly written essays by a distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, and decision theorists, together with a substantial introduction, collectively offering state-of-the-art perspectives on the rationality of self-control and the different mechanisms for achieving it.
- All the essays are newly written by a distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, and decision theorists
- The book is interdisciplinary in focus and thematically unified
- Includes a comprehensive introduction by the editor
A Gentle Course in Local Class Field Theory
Local Number Fields, Brauer Groups, Galois Cohomology
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| A Gentle Course in Local Class Field Theory Local Number Fields, Brauer Groups, Galois Cohomology |
Written for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates, this book can be used in the classroom or for independent study.
- Written for students rather than experts by integrating exposition and results
- Takes a coherent, self-contained path to the fundamental theorem of class field theory
- Teaches skills that are applicable in multiple contexts
Network Information Theory
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| Network Information Theory |
This comprehensive treatment of network information theory and its applications provides the first unified coverage of both classical and recent results. With an approach that balances the introduction of new models and new coding techniques, readers are guided through Shannon's point-to-point information theory, single-hop networks, multihop networks, and extensions to distributed computing, secrecy, wireless communication, and networking...
This book is ideal for use in the classroom, for self-study, and as a reference for researchers and engineers in industry and academia.
- The first complete and unified coverage of both classical and recent results
- Uses elementary mathematical tools and techniques throughout, making the text open to newcomers to the field
- Includes a wealth of illustrations, worked examples, bibliographic notes and over 250 end-of-chapter problems
Source: Ancient Origins and Cambridge University Press.
