This book deals with a fascinating and important subject which has the fundamentals of computer hardware, software and some of their applications. This book is intended as an introductory graduate text in computer science ...

A practical guide to modern financial risk management for both practitioners and academics The recent financial crisis and its impact on the broader economy underscore the importance of financial risk management in today's ...

Author Keith L. Richards believes that design engineers spend only a small fraction of time actually designing and drawing, and the remainder of their time finding relevant design information for a specific method or ...

This distinctive textbook aims to introduce readers to the basic structures of the mechanics of deformable bodies, with a special emphasis on the description of the elastic behavior of simple materials and structures ...

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the ...

Science Without Numbers' caused a stir when it was originally published in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science. It has been unavailable for 20 years and is now reissued in ...

The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry ...

In July 2009 Germany hosted the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). For the very first time the number of participating countries exceeded 100, with 104 countries from all continents. Celebrating the 50th ...

This book has grown from our experience over the past several years in teaching various topics in graph theory, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. As the number of students opting for graph theory is rapidly ...

Blind Signal Processing: Theory and Practice not only introduces related fundamental mathematics, but also reflects the numerous advances in the field, such as probability density estimation-based processing algorithms, ...