Mathematics and Science

A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra is a text which is heavily biased towards functional methods.

In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, provides an authoritative introduction and overview of the latest research in cellular automata (CA) models of physical systems, emergent phenomena, computational universality, chaos, growth phenomena, phase transitions, self-organised criticality, reaction-diffusion systems, self-replications, parallel computation, and more.

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This book explores what social psychology can contribute to our understanding of real-life problems and how it can inform rational interventions in any area of social life.

The chemistry of nanomaterials has developed considerably in the past two decades, and concepts that have emerged from these developments are now well established.

The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living vertebrate species.

The satellite range scheduling (SRS) problem, an important operations research problem in the aerospace industry consisting of allocating tasks among satellites and Earth-bound objects, is examined in this book.

False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded.

This book examines an important paradigm shift in biology: Plants and animals, traditionally viewed as individuals, are now considered to be complex systems and host to a plethora of microorganisms.

The second edition of this successful book provides further and in-depth insight into theoretical models dealing with Internet addiction, as well as includes new therapeutical approaches.

Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyse and interpret responses to products perceived through the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.

Presents rheological data on a number of polymers, making use of the master curve approach to determine unified curves for each generic type of polymer.

This book is about three seemingly independent areas of mathematics: combinatorial group theory, the theory of Lie algebras and affine algebraic geometry.

As chemical bonds are not observable, there are various theories and models for their description.

This book constitutes the revised papers of the 46th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2020, held in Leeds, UK, in June 2020.

Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

The 2007 Abel Symposium took place at the University of Oslo in August 2007.

Far more than a comprehensive treatise on initial-rate and fast-reaction kinetics, this one-of-a-kind desk reference places enzyme science in the fuller context of the organic, inorganic, and physical chemical processes occurring within enzyme active sites.

The first Asian Accelerator School (AAS) was organised to show the rapid development of accelerator sciences based on electron storage rings in Asia.

This textbook is the result of the enhancement of several courses on non-equilibrium statistics, stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, anomalous diffusion and disorder.

Materials with superhydrophobic or related properties are one of the most studied subjects from a theoretical point of view and also for the large range of possible applications, for example, anticorrosion, antibacteria, optical devices, and sensors.

Radio astronomy is a mystery to the majority of amateur astronomers, yet it is the best subject to turn to when desirous of an expanded knowledge of the sky.

This volume consists of twenty-four papers selected by the editors from the sixty-one papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Mathemati- cal Methods in Reliability held at the Politehnica University of Bucharest from 16 to 19 September 1997.

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim''s bones.

The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Volume I focuses on the progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and its increasing applications, including parsing, grammars, and search methods.

Physics of High Temperature Plasmas, Second Edition focuses on plasma physics and the advances in this field.

This book explores some of the complex ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials.

Fungal Secondary Metabolites: Synthesis and Applications in Agroecosystem presents the properties and biotechnological applications of microbial metabolites and their industrial, pharmaceutical, antimicrobial, and anticancer applications.

This original monograph investigates several unsolved problems that currently exist in coding theory.

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.

Introduction to Radar Analysis, Second Edition is a major revision of the popular textbook.

A comprehensive look at the Schwarz-Christoffel transformation, including its many applications.

a-Tertiary Amines en Route to Natural Products presents the multistep synthesis of natural products using schematic diagrams.

This book on the history, breeding, management and diseases of domestic animals is a snapshot of American animal husbandry around the year 1850.

Elektrophoretische Trennmethoden sind seit vielen Jahren ein nicht mehr wegzudenkender Bestandteil der analytischen Verfahren in den Bereichen Analytische Chemie, Klinische Chemie, Lebensmittelchemie, Medizin, Biologie, Pharmakologie.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in simulation on supercomputers.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to nature-inspired metaheuristic methods for search and optimization, including the latest trends in evolutionary algorithms and other forms of natural computing.

For the first time, the world's experts in HIV-AIDS have come together to publish the Encyclopedia of AIDS.

The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification.

Metal removal processes - cutting and grinding in this book - are an integral part of a large number of manufacturing systems, either as the primary manufacturing process, or as an important part of preparing the tooling for other manufacturing processes.

In recent years, no other technique has gained such significance as NMR spectroscopy.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.