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Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr., 47 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 Ramanujan, Charlie's former grad student.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives -- where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance -- are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this book, the opposite is true. The models being used today...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. A political movement gathers pace, and then quickly vanishes. An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever. We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them....
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (983 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama about an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical-genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Inspired by actual events, the series depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most perplexing criminal questions.
Author
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
70 tiles : plastic, color + book (31 pages ; 22 x 28 cm)
Language
English
Description
Used as a teacher-directed supplement to student use of tiles or for introducing the idea of modeling by focusing the students' attention and having them "think along" with each demonstration.