Mathematics

This volume offers a gradual exposition to matrix theory as a subject of linear algebra.

The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games.

This book primarily aims to discuss emerging topics in statistical methods and to booster research, education, and training to advance statistical modeling on interval-censored survival data.

In this well-illustrated book the authors, Sinan Kanbir, Ken Clements, and Nerida Ellerton, tackle a persistent, and universal, problem in school mathematics-why do so many middle-school and secondary-school students find it difficult to learn algebra well?

This volume features original contributions and invited review articles on mathematical statistics, statistical simulation and experimental design.

This book collects significant contributions from the fifth conference on Fractal Geometry and Stochastics held in Tabarz, Germany, in March 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the16th International Symposium, SCAN 2014, held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2014.

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This book teaches the art of writing mathematics, an essential -and difficult- skill for any mathematics student.

Engineering Analysis: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Engineers introduces graduate engineering students to the fundamental but advanced mathematics tools used in engineering application, especially in mechanical, aerospace, and civil engineering.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.

This textbook offers a hands-on introduction to general topology, a fundamental tool in mathematics and its applications.

This book gives an introduction to biotransformations, the practice of harnessing biological catalysts for the preparation of useful chemicals.

Praise for the Fourth Edition "e;The book follows faithfully the style of the original edition.

This textbook is designed for students with at least one solid semester of abstract algebra,some linear algebra background, and no previous knowledge of module theory.

Survival analysis generally deals with analysis of data arising from clinical trials.

This book presents a printed testimony for the fact that George Andrews, one of the world's leading experts in partitions and q-series for the last several decades, has passed the milestone age of 80.

This volume is an attempt to provide a graduate level introduction to various aspects of stochastic geometry, spatial statistics and random fields, with special emphasis placed on fundamental classes of models and algorithms as well as on their applications, e.

This book will enable researchers and students of analysis to more easily understand research papers in which probabilistic methods are used to prove theorems of analysis, many of which have no other known proofs.

Sich mathematisches Wissen anzueignen, kann nur in aktiver Weise erfolgen, in­ dem man selbst viel modelliert und rechnet.

This book is based on lecture notes from a second-year graduate course, and is a greatly expanded version of our previous monograph [K8].

This new edition describes the space of quantum states and the theory of quantum entanglement from a geometric perspective.

Finite model theory has its origin in classical model theory, but owes its systematic development to research from complexity theory.

Communication is, among other things, about the study of meaning -- how people convey ideas for themselves and to one another in their daily lives.

This book is based on the "e;Summer Simulation Multi-Conference"e; (SCSC), which has been a prominent platform for the dissemination of scholarly research in the M&S community for the last 50 years.

Scientists from four countries cooperated in a reseach effort aimed at the imporvement of operational reliability via innovations in design and testing and systematic maintenance.

This book provides a unique international comparative perspective on diverse issues and practices in mathematics education between and among the US and five high-performing TIMSS education systems, Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

This book is the second volume of an intensive "e;Russian-style"e; two-year undergraduate course in abstract algebra, and introduces readers to the basic algebraic structures - fields, rings, modules, algebras, groups, and categories - and explains the main principles of and methods for working with them.

R is rapidly becoming the standard software for statistical analyses, graphical presentation of data, and programming in the natural, physical, social, and engineering sciences.

Mathematic Modelling: Improving the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Interventions, Part B, the latest volume in the Advances in Parasitology series contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in the field of mathematic modeling and its implementation within parasitology.

Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in weiterführende Themengebiete der stochastischen Prozesse und der zugehörigen stochastischen Analysis und verbindet diese mit einer fundierten Darstellung von Grundlagen der Finanzmathematik.

A comprehensive introduction to the mathematical description of strings, D-branes and the geometry of strongly curved spacetime.

A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries.

This book provides an introduction to the foundations and recent developments in commutative algebra.

The book is the follow-up to its predecessor "e;Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2009/2010"e; and includes a representative selection of all scientific publications published between 07/2011 and 06/2012 in various books, journals and conference proceedings by the researchers of the following institute cluster:IMA - Institute of Information Management in Mechanical EngineeringZLW - Center for Learning and Knowledge ManagementIfU - Associated Institute for Management CyberneticsFaculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen UniversityInnovative fields of application, such as cognitive systems, autonomous truck convoys, telemedicine, ontology engineering, knowledge and information management, learning models and technologies, organizational development and management cybernetics are presented.

A comprehensive treatment of Floer homology, based on the Seiberg–Witten equations, first published in 2007.

This book provides the first consideration of quantum principles in legal decision making.

This monograph is a continuation of several themes presented in my previous books [146, 149].

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge.

Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e- nomics.

Aimed at students, professionals and research workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical problems using SPSS, MATLAB and STATISTICA, this text provides a comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics important for practical applications such as data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data and directional statistics.

This book is a compilation of recent research on distributed optimization algorithms for the integral load management of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) fleets and their potential services to the electricity system.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 6, held in Paris, France, in January 2012.

Nomography deals with geometrical transformations, particularly projective transformations of a plane.

Mathematical modeling can be a useful tool for researchers in the biological scientists.