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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a …
Dataset Shift in Machine Learning
An overview of recent efforts in the machine learning community to deal with dataset and covariate shift, which occurs when test and training inputs and outputs have different …
Equity-Linked Life Insurance
This book focuses on the application of the partial hedging approach from modern math finance to equity-linked life insurance contracts. It provides an accessible, up-to-date …
Liberty's Grid
The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of …
Proof! Lib/E: How the World Became Geometrical
Infinitesimal
On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny …
Duel at Dawn
In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Evariste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end …
Geometrical Landscapes
This challenging book argues that a new way of speaking of mathematics and describing it emerged at the end of the sixteenth century. Leading mathematicians like Hariot, Stevin, …
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical
An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, …
Chirurgische Sofortmaßnahmen
Notfälle erfordern adäquates chirurgisches Vorgehen, da ansonsten lebensbedrohliche Komplikationen im postoperativen Verlauf auftreten können. Jeder Arzt muss deshalb die Maßnahmen …
Tel Miqne 9/1 and 9/3B (2-vol. set)
Tel Miqne-Ekron Field IV Lower—The Elite Zone, The Iron Age I and IIC, The Early and Late Philistine Cities, Parts 9/1-9/3B present the evidence of two large Philistines cites, one …
Duel at Dawn
In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Évariste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end …