Enigmas of Chance
Author | : Mark Kac |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520059863 |
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Author | : Mark Kac |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520059863 |
Author | : Mark Kac |
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Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Mathematicians |
ISBN | : 9780465019816 |
This autobiography covers the life of Mark Kac, the Polish mathematician known best for his interest in probability theory. His question, "Can you hear the shape of a drum?"set the stage for research into spectral theory.
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Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Mathematicians |
ISBN | : 0821829181 |
The editorial board for the History of Mathematics series has selected for this volume a series of translations from two Russian publications, Kolmogorov in Remembrance and Mathematics and its Historical Development. This book, Kolmogorov in Perspective, includes articles written by Kolmogorov's students and colleagues and his personal accounts of shared experiences and lifelong mathematical friendships. The articles combine to give an excellent personal and scientific biography of this important mathematician. There is also an extensive bibliography with the complete list of Kolmogorov's work.
Author | : Martin H Krieger |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9814571865 |
Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and employ, all depend on the mathematics — what will work out and what won't. The cases studied include the central limit theorem of statistics, the sound of the shape of a drum, the connections between algebra and topology, and the series of rigorous proofs of the stability of matter. The many and varied solutions to the two-dimensional Ising model of ferromagnetism make sense as a whole when they are seen in an analogy developed by Richard Dedekind in the 1880s to algebraicize Riemann's function theory; by Robert Langlands' program in number theory and representation theory; and, by the analogy between one-dimensional quantum mechanics and two-dimensional classical statistical mechanics. In effect, we begin to see 'an identity in a manifold presentation of profiles,' as the phenomenologists would say.This second edition deepens the particular examples; it describe the practical role of mathematical rigor; it suggests what might be a mathematician's philosophy of mathematics; and, it shows how an 'ugly' first proof or derivation embodies essential features, only to be appreciated after many subsequent proofs. Natural scientists and mathematicians trade physical models and abstract objects, remaking them to suit their needs, discovering new roles for them as in the recent case of the Painlevé transcendents, the Tracy-Widom distribution, and Toeplitz determinants. And mathematics has provided the models and analogies, the ordinary language, for describing the everyday world, the structure of cities, or God's infinitude.
Author | : Fabrice Mazza |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0785834540 |
Fun for the whole family, the book contains more than 100 superb puzzles. Merlin the Magician, Avalon, King Arthur, and other mythical people and places feature prominently.
Author | : N. Katherine Hayles |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2014-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022623004X |
The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the science of chaos. They examine how changing ideas of order and disorder enable new readings of scientific and literary texts, from Newton's Principia to Ruskin's autobiography, from Victorian serial fiction to Borges's short stories. N. Katherine Hayles traces shifts in meaning that chaos has undergone within the Western tradition, suggesting that the science of chaos articulates categories that cannot be assimilated into the traditional dichotomy of order and disorder. She and her contributors take the relation between order and disorder as a theme and develop its implications for understanding texts, metaphors, metafiction, audience response, and the process of interpretation itself. Their innovative and diverse work opens the interdisciplinary field of chaotics to literary inquiry.
Author | : Peter Brooks |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-10-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 069115953X |
Presents a survey of literature, law, and psychology to examine the importance of identity.
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Total Pages | : 288 |
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Author | : Mark Kidger |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2005-07-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780801880261 |
Astronomer Kidger has spent his career helping the general public understand the nature of the universe and astronomy. In "Astronomical Enigmas," he offers answers to the questions he is asked most frequently.