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Book of Why
'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking …
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation …
Aging People, Aging Places
How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults? The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural …
Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be
The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesisThis lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a …
Conversations About Challenges in Computing
This text sheds light on how mathematical models and computing can help understanding and prediction of complicated physical processes; how communication networks should be …
Lagrangian Manifolds and the Maslov Operator
This book presents Maslov's canonical operator method for finding asymptotic solutions of pseudo differential equations. The classical WKB method, so named in honor of its authors: …
Conversations About Challenges in Computing
This text sheds light on how mathematical models and computing can help understanding and prediction of complicated physical processes; how communication networks should be …
What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 7
Describes some genuine surprises, such as the discovery that coin tosses are inherently unfair; a mathematical theory of invisibility that was soon followed by the creation of a …
Shakespeare and Canada
Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada over the past two hundred years, but also to comprehend the way …
The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors
Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of …
What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 12
As always, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences presents a selection of topics in mathematics that have attracted particular attention in recent years. This volume is …