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| Climate MathematicsTheory and Applications |
Additional online supplements to aid classroom teaching include datasets, images, and animations. Guidance is provided on how the book can support a variety of courses at different levels, making it a highly flexible text for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and professional climate scientists who need to refresh or modernize their quantitative skills.
- Tailored specifically to the needs of climate science, combining all the relevant math topics into a single resource
- Accessible and self-contained, assuming only high school mathematical knowledge
- Presents each formula alongside relevant climate science examples to demonstrate the physical meaning and context
- Uses R and Python code to integrate computational techniques with mathematical methods – training students in the key skills of data analysis and visualization
Where Do Numbers Come From?
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| Where Do Numbers Come From? |
Additional chapters on polynomials and quarternions provide further context for any reader wanting to delve deeper.
- Contains clear explanation of the various number systems used in mathematics
- Entertaining and accessible to undergraduates
- Solutions to all exercises are available online
Design and Analysis of Algorithms - A Contemporary Perspective
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| Design and Analysis of Algorithms A Contemporary Perspective |
The book also emphasizes the role of randomization in algorithm design, and gives numerous applications ranging from data-structures such as skip-lists to dimensionality reduction methods.
- Discusses important concepts including graph algorithms, parallel algorithms and approximation algorithms that are explained in detail
- Emphasizes alternate and realistic computational frameworks including parallel, memory hierarchy and streaming
- Covers new models of computation including string matching, streaming algorithms and geometric algorithms
- Real-life applications and numerical problems are spread throughout the text for the benefit of the readers
The Poetry and Music of Science - Comparing Creativity in Science and Art
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| The Poetry and Music of Science Comparing Creativity in Science and Art |
- Challenges the obvious assumption science is less creative than art and illustrates the contrary
- Treats art and science on an equal footing
- Draws on historical and contemporary examples to provide a broader understanding
- Brings medieval philosophy and theology to bear on current questions of creativity
- Reports on individual conversations with artists and scientists and provides personal perspectives on their creative processes
- Illustrates with rich and detailed examples
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics
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| Conversations on Art and Aesthetics |
- Covers a great variety of topics in aesthetics in an accessible way
- Includes conversations with world-leading philosophers of art
- The dialogues offer lively, more personal views of philosophy
- Accompanied by previously unpublished portraits by Steve Pyke, one of the world's leading photographers
The Digital Ape - How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines
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| The Digital Ape How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines |
- Offers a well-informed, readable, and confident perspective on the continued technology revolution
- Updated to tackle recent technological advances (and setbacks), including the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
- Authors are renown global experts
- Written not to invoke fear of the future, but confidence in humanity's continued evolution
The School of Sun Tzu
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| The School Of Sun Tzu: Winning Empires Without War |
The School of Sun Tzu carefully examines how the empire of China came into being, the leadership of its first emperor, and the role played by his learned academies - which gave us the Tao Te Ching and the Ping-fa by Sun Tzu (incorrectly translated as "Art of War"). The concepts, values and practices that helped found China defined the greatness of the first empire. History knows of, but has not articulated the revisionist conspiracy of the second empire that worked so hard to discredit all the good that the first had achieved, while leaving it essentially intact.
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The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
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| The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (The Penguin History of Europe) |
The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a deeper past, drawing on ancient myths and figures to shape vibrant civilizations.
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Source: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Ancient Origins.
