'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRYA WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.
Dan Ariely's three New York Times bestselling books on his groundbreaking behavioral economics research, Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, are now available for the first time in a single volume.
From the author of The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved - and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths.
Sirve como texto guía de pregrado y posgrado en todas las carreras que incluyan dentro de sus asignaturas modelos de optimización de carácter lineal y eficiencia en el manejo de los recursos; dentro de éstas se pueden mencionar ingeniería industrial, administración de empresas, economía y contaduría pública, entre otras.
El Ajedrecista y la muerte es un libro de ensayos que conmemora el ajedrez desde una óptica demencial y fogosa, el caos que engendra, el ajedrez como misterio, como ritual que forja un microespacio; no como estadística, sino como rapsodia; no el procesamiento de datos, sino la poesía.
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behaviorGame theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today.
Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences-from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science.
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials.
Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design.
Mientras que la mayoría de los libros relativos a los problemas de optimización se dedican principalmente al diseño de algoritmos heurísticos y exactos para la solución efectiva de los problemas considerados, el objetivo de este libro es facilitar la difícil tarea de la adecuada modelización de los problemas a abordar.
Si desea adentrarse en el mundo de la programación desde cero y avanzar progresivamente hasta cubrir los aspectos más complejos de la programación en C++, mediante el análisis y desarrollo de gran cantidad de problemas algorítmicos de todos los niveles, este libro será su gran aliado.
Si desea obtener o entender sus propios datos textuales para descubrir y detectar automáticamente conocimiento valioso para su empresa, ha llegado al libro indicado.
The new edition of Mathematical Modeling, the survey text of choice for mathematical modeling courses, adds ample instructor support and online delivery for solutions manuals and software ancillaries.
Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics provides students with a readable, deep understanding of the key statistical topics they need to understand in an econometrics course.
The second edition of this authoritative textbook continues the tradition of providing clear and concise descriptions of the new and classic concepts in financial theory.
A groundbreaking new synthesis and theory of social institutionsUnderstanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic.
The first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behaviorA wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields.
The computer science problem whose solution could transform life as we know itThe P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics.
The story of one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematicsWhat is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin?
