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by Michael Friedman (Editor), Karin Krauthausen (Editor)How to Grasp an Abstraction: Mathematical Models and Their Vicissitudes between 1830 and 1950. Introduction.- Knowing by Drawing: Geometric Material Models in 19th Century France.- Wilhelm Fiedler and his Models-the Polytechnic Side.- Models from the Nineteenth Century Used for Visualizing Optical Phenomena and Line Geometry.- Modeling Parallel Transport.- The great yogurt project: models and symmetry principles in early particle physics...

An Introduction to Statistics with Python: With Applications in the Life Sciences - Hardcover

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by Thomas Haslwanter (Author)Now in its second edition, this textbook provides an introduction to Python and its use for statistical data analysis. It covers common statistical tests for continuous, discrete and categorical data, as well as linear regression analysis and topics from survival analysis and Bayesian statistics.For this new edition, the introductory chapters on Python, data input and visualization have been reworked and updated. The chapter on experimental design has been expande...

The Virtual Element Method and Its Applications - Hardcover

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by Paola F. Antonietti (Editor), Lourenço Beirão Da Veiga (Editor), Gianmarco Manzini (Editor)1 Tommaso Sorgente et al., VEM and the Mesh.- 2 Dibyendu Adak et al., On the implementation of Virtual Element Method for Nonlinear problems over polygonal meshes.- 3 Long Chen and Xuehai Huang, Discrete Hessian Complexes in Three Dimensions.- 4 Edoardo Artioli et al., Some Virtual Element Methods for Infinitesimal Elasticity Problems.- 5 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga and Giuseppe Vacca, An introduction t...

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by Scott Baum (Editor)Chapter 1: Why Urban Analysis.- Chapter 2: The research process. Chapter 3: Secondary data.- Chapter 4: Conducting survey research.- Chapter 5: Focus Group.- Chapter 6: Content analysis.- Chapter 7: In-depth interviewing.- Chapter 8: Observation as data collection.- Chapter 9: Analyzing quantitative urban data.- Chapter 10: Analyzing qualitative urban data.- Chapter 11: Writing urban analysis.Back JacketThis book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and ...

Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy (Fourth Edition) - Hardcover

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by Roger A. McCain (Author)As with the previous editions, this fourth edition relies on teaching by example and the Karplus Learning Cycle to convey the ideas of game theory in a way that is approachable, intuitive, and interdisciplinary. Noncooperative equilibrium concepts such as Nash equilibrium, mixed strategy equilibria, and subgame perfect equilibrium are systematically introduced in the first half of the book. Bayesian Nash equilibrium is briefly introduced. The subsequent chapters dis...

Stochastic Komatu-Loewner Evolutions - Hardcover

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by Zhen-Qing Chen (Author), Masatoshi Fukushima (Author), Takuya Murayama (Author)The present monograph on stochastic Komatu-Loewner evolutions (SKLEs) provides the first systematic extension of the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) theory from a simply connected planar domain to multiply connected domains by using the Brownian motion with darning (BMD) that has arisen in a recent study of the boundary theory of symmetric Markov processes.This volume is presented in an accessible manner for the...

Eco-Stats: Data Analysis in Ecology: From T-Tests to Multivariate Abundances - Hardcover

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by David I. Warton (Author)This book introduces ecologists to the wonderful world of modern tools for data analysis, especially multivariate analysis. For biologists with relatively little prior knowledge of statistics, it introduces a modern, advanced approach to data analysis in an intuitive and accessible way. The book begins by reviewing some core principles in statistics, and relates common methods to the linear model, a general framework for modeling data where the response is continuou...

Nikola Tesla: Prophet of the Modern Technological Age (The Captivating Life of the Prophet of the Electronic Age) - Paperback

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by Estelle Monk (Author)Obsessive, brilliant, and tortured, nikola tesla was lauded for his invention of the alternating current (ac), and other significant contributions to science. His claim that "harnessing the forces of nature was the only worthwhile scientific endeavor" both impressed and enraged the scientific community. Eventually, his peers could no longer dismiss his eccentricities and began to view him as a crackpot - a potentially dangerous one. Inside you will read about... Early ...

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by Kristen Jaskie (Author), Andreas Spanias (Author)Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful tools that create predictive models, extract information, and help make complex decisions. They do this by examining an enormous quantity of labeled training data to find patterns too complex for human observation. However, in many real-world applications, well-labeled data can be difficult, expensive, or even impossible to obtain. In some cases, such as when identifying rare obj...

A First Course in Complex Analysis - Paperback

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by Allan R. Willms (Author)This book introduces complex analysis and is appropriate for a first course in the subject at typically the third-year University level. It introduces the exponential function very early but does so rigorously. It covers the usual topics of functions, differentiation, analyticity, contour integration, the theorems of Cauchy and their many consequences, Taylor and Laurent series, residue theory, the computation of certain improper real integrals, and a brief introduc...

Applying Reinforcement Learning on Real-World Data with Practical Examples in Python - Paperback

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by Philip Osborne (Author), Kajal Singh (Author), Matthew E. Taylor (Author)Reinforcement learning is a powerful tool in artificial intelligence in which virtual or physical agents learn to optimize their decision making to achieve long-term goals. In some cases, this machine learning approach can save programmers time, outperform existing controllers, reach super-human performance, and continually adapt to changing conditions. This book argues that these successes show reinforcement learning...

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by Lars Tuset (Author)This volume presents a completely self-contained introduction to the elaborate theory of locally compact quantum groups, bringing the reader to the frontiers of present-day research. The exposition includes a substantial amount of material on functional analysis and operator algebras, subjects which in themselves have become increasingly important with the advent of quantum information theory. In particular, the rather unfamiliar modular theory of weights plays a crucial...

Chinese Lexical Semantics: 22nd Workshop, Clsw 2021, Nanjing, China, May 15-16, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part I - Paperback

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by Minghui Dong (Editor), Yanhui Gu (Editor), Jia-Fei Hong (Editor)The two-volume proceedings, LNCS 13249 and 13250, constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2021, held in Nanjing, China in May 2021. The 68 full papers and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical Semantics and General Linguistics; Natural Language Processing a...

Graded Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Problems in Nonsmooth Domains - Paperback

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by Hengguang Li (Author)The Finite Element Method.- The Function Space.- Singularities and Graded Mesh Algorithms.- Error Estimates in Polygonal Domains.- Regularity Estimates and Graded Meshes in Polyhedral Domains.- Anisotropic Error Estimates in Polyhedral Domains.Back JacketThis book develops a class of graded finite element methods to solve singular elliptic boundary value problems in two- and three-dimensional domains. It provides an approachable and self-contained presentation of the t...

Characterizing Groupoid C*-Algebras of Non-Hausdorff Étale Groupoids - Paperback

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by Ruy Exel (Author), David R. Pitts (Author)This book develops tools to handle C*-algebras arising as completions of convolution algebras of sections of line bundles over possibly non-Hausdorff groupoids. A fundamental result of Gelfand describes commutative C*-algebras as continuous functions on locally compact Hausdorff spaces. Kumjian, and later Renault, showed that Gelfand's result can be extended to include non-commutative C*-algebras containing a commutative C*-algebra. In their settin...

Climate, Chaos and Covid: How Mathematical Models Describe the Universe - Hardcover

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by Chris Budd (Author)Mathematical models are very much in the news now, as they are used to make decisions about our response to such vital areas as COVID-19 and climate change. Frequently, they are blamed for a series of dubious decisions, creating much concern amongst the general public. However, without mathematical models, we would have none of the modern technology that we take for granted, nor would we have modern health care, be able to forecast the climate, cook a potato, have electr...

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by Eugenia Cheng (Author)Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and every...

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by Catherine Legrand (Author)Survival data analysis is a very broad field of statistics, encompassing a large variety of methods used in a wide range of applications, and in particular in medical research. During the last twenty years, several extensions of "classical" survival models have been developed to address particular situations often encountered in practice. This book aims to gather in a single reference the most commonly used extensions, such as frailty models (in case of unobserved...

Structural Equation Modelling with Partial Least Squares Using Stata and R - Paperback

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by Mehmet Mehmetoglu (Author), Sergio Venturini (Author)Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is becoming a popular statistical framework in many fields and disciplines of the social sciences. The main reason for this popularity is that PLS-SEM can be used to estimate models including latent variables, observed variables, or a combination of these. The popularity of PLS-SEM is predicted to increase even more as a result of the development of new and more robust estimat...

Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning - Paperback

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by Thomas A. Gerds (Author), Michael W. Kattan (Author)Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning is a hands-on book for clinicians, epidemiologists, and professional statisticians who need to make or evaluate a statistical prediction model based on data. The subject of the book is the patient's individualized probability of a medical event within a given time horizon. Gerds and Kattan describe the mathematical details of making and evaluating a statistical prediction model...

Bayesian Analysis of Infectious Diseases: Covid-19 and Beyond - Paperback

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by Lyle D. Broemeling (Author)Bayesian Analysis of Infectious Diseases -COVID-19 and Beyond shows how the Bayesian approach can be used to analyze the evolutionary behavior of infectious diseases, including the coronavirus pandemic. The book describes the foundation of Bayesian statistics while explicating the biology and evolutionary behavior of infectious diseases, including viral and bacterial manifestations of the contagion. The book discusses the application of Markov Chains to contagiou...

Geometry of Continued Fractions - Hardcover

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by Oleg N. Karpenkov (Author)This book introduces a new geometric vision of continued fractions. It covers several applications to questions related to such areas as Diophantine approximation, algebraic number theory, and toric geometry. The second edition now includes a geometric approach to Gauss Reduction Theory, classification of integer regular polygons and some further new subjects.Traditionally a subject of number theory, continued fractions appear in dynamical systems, algebraic geome...

Introductory Tiling Theory for Computer Graphics - Paperback

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by Craig Kaplan (Author)Tiling theory is an elegant branch of mathematics that has applications in several areas of computer science. The most immediate application area is graphics, where tiling theory has been used in the contexts of texture generation, sampling theory, remeshing, and of course the generation of decorative patterns. The combination of a solid theoretical base (complete with tantalizing open problems), practical algorithmic techniques, and exciting applications make tiling t...

Linked Data: Evolving the Web Into a Global Data Space - Paperback

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by Tom Heath (Author), Christian Bizer (Author)The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked documents. As the Web becomes ever more enmeshed with our daily lives, there is a growing desire for direct access to raw data not currently available on the Web or bound up in hypertext documents. Linked Data provides a publishing paradigm in which not only documents, but also data, can be a first class citizen of the Web, thereby enabling the extension o...

Graph and Network Theory: An Applied Approach Using Mathematica(r) - Hardcover

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by Michael A. Henning (Author), Jan H. Van Vuuren (Author)This textbook covers a diversity of topics in graph and network theory, both from a theoretical standpoint, and from an applied modelling point of view. Mathematica(R) is used to demonstrate much of the modelling aspects. Graph theory and model building tools are developed in tandem with effective techniques for solving practical problems via computer implementation. The book is designed with three primary readerships in mind. Individu...

Visual Analysis of Multilayer Networks - Paperback

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by Fintan McGee (Author), Benjamin Renoust (Author), Daniel Archambault (Author)The emergence of multilayer networks as a concept from the field of complex systems provides many new opportunities for the visualization of network complexity, and has also raised many new exciting challenges. The multilayer network model recognizes that the complexity of relationships between entities in real-world systems is better embraced as several interdependent subsystems (or layers) rather than a simple g...

An Introduction to Laplacian Spectral Distances and Kernels: Theory, Computation, and Applications - Paperback

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by Giuseppe Patanè (Author)In geometry processing and shape analysis, several applications have been addressed through the properties of the Laplacian spectral kernels and distances, such as commute time, biharmonic, diffusion, and wave distances. Within this context, this book is intended to provide a common background on the definition and computation of the Laplacian spectral kernels and distances for geometry processing and shape analysis. To this end, we define a unified representation o...

Finite Element Method Simulation of 3D Deformable Solids - Paperback

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by Eftychios Sifakis (Author), Jernej Barbič (Author)This book serves as a practical guide to simulation of 3D deformable solids using the Finite Element Method (FEM). It reviews a number of topics related to the theory and implementation of FEM approaches: measures of deformation, constitutive laws of nonlinear materials, tetrahedral discretizations, and model reduction techniques for real-time simulation. Simulations of deformable solids are important in many applications in computer graphi...

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by Brian David Johnson (Author), Cyndi Coon (Author), Natalie Vanatta (Author)Impending technological advances will widen an adversary's attack plane over the next decade. Visualizing what the future will hold, and what new threat vectors could emerge, is a task that traditional planning mechanisms struggle to accomplish given the wide range of potential issues. Understanding and preparing for the future operating environment is the basis of an analytical method known as Threatcasting. It is ...

Quantum Robotics: A Primer on Current Science and Future Perspectives - Paperback

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by Prateek Tandon (Author), Stanley Lam (Author), Ben Shih (Author)Quantum robotics is an emerging engineering and scientific research discipline that explores the application of quantum mechanics, quantum computing, quantum algorithms, and related fields to robotics. This work broadly surveys advances in our scientific understanding and engineering of quantum mechanisms and how these developments are expected to impact the technical capability for robots to sense, plan, learn, and act in a d...

Time-Fractional Order Biological Systems with Uncertain Parameters - Paperback

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by Snehashish Chakraverty (Author), Rajarama Mohan Jena (Author), Subrat Kumar Jena (Author)The subject of fractional calculus has gained considerable popularity and importance during the past three decades, mainly due to its validated applications in various fields of science and engineering. It is a generalization of ordinary differentiation and integration to arbitrary (non-integer) order. The fractional derivative has been used in various physical problems, such as frequency-dependent dam...

Jordan Canonical Form: Theory and Practice - Paperback

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by Steven H. Weintraub (Author)Jordan Canonical Form (JCF) is one of the most important, and useful, concepts in linear algebra. The JCF of a linear transformation, or of a matrix, encodes all of the structural information about that linear transformation, or matrix. This book is a careful development of JCF. After beginning with background material, we introduce Jordan Canonical Form and related notions: eigenvalues, (generalized) eigenvectors, and the characteristic and minimum polynomials....