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by Per Bak • August 29, 1996 • Computers & Technology
Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex ...
by John Allen Paulos • March 15, 2000 • Politics & Social Sciences
The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not onl...
by Stephen Wolfram • July 7, 2016 • Biographies & Memoirs
This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective...
by Lesley Smith • November 1, 2003 • History
The variety of experience available to medieval scholars and the vitality of medieval thought are both reflected in this collec...
by Robert Nozick • October 16, 2001 • Politics & Social Sciences
Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great stress. In this pathbreaking book, t...
by Edward O. Thorp and William T. Ziemba • February 11, 2011 • Science & Math
This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune's formula or the Kelly capital growth criterion as it is often called....
by Umberto Eco • November 9, 2000 • Politics & Social Sciences
How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability,...
by Rita Carter • August 1, 2010 • Medical Books
Today a brain scan reveals our thoughts and moods as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person’s ...
by Jack D. Schwager • February 7, 2012 • Business & Money
The world's top trader's reveal the secrets of their phenomenal success!
How do the world's most successful traders amass t...
by A. N. Kolmogorov • July 7, 1999 • Science & Math
". . . Nothing less than a major contribution to the scientific culture of this world." — The New York Times Book Review
This ...
by Terry Burnham • October 2, 2012 • Health, Fitness & Dieting
Short, sassy, and bold, Mean Genes uses a Darwinian lens to examine the issues that most deeply affect our lives: body image, m...
by Paul Embrechts • June 2, 1997 • Science & Math
"A reader's first impression on leafing through this book is of the large number of graphs and diagrams, used to illustrate sha...
by Emanuel Derman • September 8, 2021 • Business & Money
Now in paperback, “a compelling, accessible, and provocative piece of work that forces us to question many of our assumptions” ...
by Nicholas Awde • June 1, 2007 • Reference
Aramaic is now recognised throughout the world as the language spoken by Christ and the Apostles. Contrary to popular belief, h...
by Alain Bertaud • December 4, 2018 • Politics & Social Sciences
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of...
by Hardeep Singh Puri • September 13, 2016 • Politics & Social Sciences
Recent military interventions gone wrong
It was an exclusive lunch at a high-end Manhattan restaurant on 7 March 2011. UN Se...
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel M. Klein • September 9, 2021 • Humor & Entertainment
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school.
Outrageously funny, ...
by S. R. S. Varadhan • September 15, 2001 • Science & Math
This volume presents topics in probability theory covered during a first-year graduate course given at the Courant Institute of...
by Athanasios Papoulis and Unnikrishna Pillai • January 1, 1981 • Science & Math
4th International Edition of Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
by K. G. Binmore • March 14, 2011 • Science & Math
It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leon...
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