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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Hyperion, 1999

An affectionate if impressionistic portrayal of one of the century's greatest and strangest mathematicians. Though little known among nonmathematicians, Erdos, who died in 1996 at age 83, was a legend among his colleagues. According to Hoffman (Archimedes' Revenge, 1988), the Hungarian was so devoted to mathematics that he went without...

Learning Programming using MATLAB (Synthesis Lectures on Electrical Engineering)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2007

Why learn programming? There are several answers to that. Computers are ubiquitous—your car, your mp3 player, the orbiting satellites which provide us with the ability to communicate and the automatic coffee maker all use a computer of some sort. Andcomputers require programming to function. Knowing how to program provides us with a bit of...

Introduction to Bayesian Scientific Computing: Ten Lectures on Subjective Computing

Springer, 2007

The book of nature, according to Galilei, is written in the language of mathematics. The nature of mathematics is being exact, and its exactness is underlined by the formalism used by mathematicians to write it. This formalism, characterized by theorems and proofs, and syncopated with occasional lemmas, remarks and corollaries, is so deeply...

$Bioinformatics For Dummies (Math & Science)$

Bioinformatics For Dummies (Math & Science)

For Dummies, 2006

Search databases and analyze sequences like a pro

Get the most out of your PC and the Web with the right tools

Explore the human genome and analyze DNA — without leaving your desktop! All it takes is the basics of molecular biology and the wealth of information in this friendly guide. You'll discover the...

Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

You receive an e-mail. It contains an offer for a complete personal computer system. It seems like the retailer read your mind since you were exploring computers on their web site just a few hours prior….

As you drive to the store to buy the computer bundle, you get an offer for a discounted coffee from the coffee shop you...

Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks

University of California Press, 2009

Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consumers?...

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Apress, 2007

Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It’s that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That’s when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees...

Brands That Rock: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the World of Rock and Roll

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"Reading Brands That Rock is like attending business school, where classes on customer loyalty, consumer behavior, and branding are taught by Mick Jagger, Elton John, Steven Tyler, and Madonna."

–Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

Cadillac and The Rolling Stones. Victoria’s Secret and Madonna. Wal-Mart and...

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)

Apress, 2008

Sprinters apparently reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It’s that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That’s when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100 percent of its...

Wireless Networking (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Convenient one-stop view of wireless networking including cellular networks, WiFi and WiMax, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networking, and the full range of options in between.

Over the past decade, the world has witnessed an explosion in the development and deployment of new wireless network technologies. From...

Connect!: A Guide to a New Way of Working from GigaOM's Web Worker Daily

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Are you a web worker?

You are if you use the web to reach out beyond the confines of your office, cubicle, home workspace, or seat at the coffee shop to connect and collaborate with others doing the same thing. In this book you'll learn how to use new web tools to improve your work life. You'll discover web...

Replicated Data Management for Mobile Computing (Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Mobility has become increasingly important for both business and casual users of computing technology. With the widespread adoption of portable computing devices, such as laptops, PDAs, tablet computers, music players, and cell phones, people can have almost constant access to their personal data as well as to information that is shared with...

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