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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First international edition.
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar...
Author
Series
Biomathematics volume 19
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
xiv, 767 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet cafe in Nairobi or the skeletal, modern furniture of an...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful exploration of games and math, spanning centuries...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A survey of current research into the human mind reveals how top international laboratories have innovated unique technologies for recording profound mental capabilities and enabling controversial opportunities in the field of cognition enhancement.
Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xx, 431 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mathematics for the Life Sciences provides present and future biologists with the mathematical concepts and tools needed to understand and use mathematical models and read advanced mathematical biology books. It presents mathematics in biological contexts, focusing on the central mathematical ideas, and providing detailed explanations. The author assumes no mathematics background beyond algebra and precalculus. Calculus is presented as a one-chapter...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
x, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A gripping narrative of brilliance and hubris, "The Quants" follows the rise of 1950s-era math geniuses let loose on Wall Street--who then set in motion ever widening market catastrophes.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (544 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's experiences as a mathematics wizard, author, inventor, hedge-fund manager, and card-counter who revealed casino-beating strategies, invented the first wearable computer, and launched a Wall Street revolution.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (17 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematically gifted brother, Charlie, to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. Don is assisted by fellow agents Megan Reeves, David Sinclair, and Colby Granger, while Charlie finds insight and encouragement from a co-worker, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and Amita Ramnjuan, Charlie's former grad student.