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From Semantics to Computer Science: Essays in Honour of Gilles Kahn

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Gilles Kahn was one of the most influential figures in the development of computer science and information technology, not only in Europe but throughout the world. This volume of articles by several leading computer scientists serves as a fitting memorial to Kahn's achievements and reflects the broad range of subjects to which he contributed...

Countdown to French : Learn to Communicate in 24 Hours

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Go from being feckless to flawless at French in only 24 hours

So you're leaving for France in a few days and you don't speak a word of the language? What will you do if you get lost in Paris and have to ask for directions? Or your rental car acts up and you need a mechanic? Or your flight from Nice is delayed and you...

The Mathematica GuideBook for Numerics

Springer, 2007

Computers were initially developed to expedite numerical calculations. A newer, and in the long run, very fruitful field is the manipulation of symbolic expressions. When these symbolic expressions represent mathematical entities, this field is generally called computer algebra [8]. Computer algebra begins with relatively...

Perfect Phrases in French for Confident Travel: The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip (Perfect Phrases Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

More than your average phrasebook, this portable title shows you how to be a well-mannered visitor and speak the local language in the correct context

Any phrasebook can give you a line listing of essential phrases. But if you use a phrase or term without knowing the correct way to use it, you can find yourself in an...

Curves and Singularities

Cambridge University Press, 1985

The object of this book is to introduce to a new generation of students an area of mathematics that has received a tremendous impetus during the last twenty years or so from developments in singularity theory.

The differential geometry of curves, families of curves and surfaces in Euclidean space has fascinated mathematicians and users...

The Lanczos and Conjugate Gradient Algorithms: From Theory to Finite Precision Computations

SIAM, 2006

"No present book comes near this one in the range and depth of treatment of these two extremely important methods—the Lanczos algorithm and the method of conjugate gradients." Chris Paige, School of Computer Science, McGill University. The Lanczos and conjugate gradient (CG) algorithms are fascinating numerical...

Syntactic Pattern Recognition: An Introduction (Applied Mathematics and Computation; No. 14)

Addison Wesley, 1978

This book was written to provide students, engineers, and scientists involved in pattern recognition, digital image processing, and artificial intelligence with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and tech- niques of syntactic pattern recognition.

Syntactic pattern recognition is concerned with the...

IT Security Management: IT Securiteers - Setting up an IT Security Function (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)

Springer, 2010

In 1862, the gardener James Bateman sent several specimens of the Christmas orchid to Charles Darwin. This orchid was first planted in Britain in 1855 and it did not blossom until 1857. It had been discovered several decades before by the French botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars in Madagascar in 1822. The most significant...

Word Origins

A & C Black Publishers, 2008

The average English speaker knows around 50,000 words. That represents an astonishing diversity – nearly 25 times more words than there are individual stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky. And even 50,000 seems insignificant beside the half a million recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary. But looked at from an...

Quantum Field Theory

McGraw-Hill, 1987

Quantum field theory has remained throughout the years one of the most important tools in understanding the microscopic world. The recent years have seen a blossoming of developments and applications which go far beyond the original scope.

Our attempt at presenting a pedagogical survey of this subject arose from lectures given in...

Practice Makes Perfect French Sentence Builder (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your French vocabulary and grammar skills together!

You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes...

Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics

Tarcher, 1983

Most of the reasons that I have written this book can be explained in terms of what reportedly happened one day in the eighteenth century when the great German mathematician Leonhard Euler confronted the eminent French scholar and atheist Denis Diderot with a spurious mathematical proof for the existence of God. Euler, it seems, accepted an...

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