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Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design

Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

This book, Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design, has been many years in the making. Our interest in virtual reality came about as an outgrowth of our interest in, and our day-to-day work in scientific visualization. In the early 1990s the state-of-the-art in computer graphics used for scientific visualization was...

$Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts$

Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts

Greenwood Press, 2002

"What does this have to do with real life?" is a question that plagues mathematics teachers across America, as students are confronted with abstract topics in their high school mathematics courses. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics emphasizes the importance of making real world connections in teaching mathematics so that...

The Mind of the Mathematician

Johns Hopkins, 2007

What makes mathematicians tick? How do their minds process formulas and concepts that, for most of the rest of the world's population, remain mysterious and beyond comprehension? Is there a connection between mathematical creativity and mental illness?

In The Mind of the Mathematician, internationally famous mathematician Ioan James and...

Great Feuds in Mathematics: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Mathematical disputes offer indisputable proof that great mathematical minds are calculating in more ways than one. Fueled by greed, jealousy, ambition, and ego, they have plots worthy of a soap opera, pitting brother against brother, father against son, and student against mentor.

In the sixteenth century, Cardano and Tartaglia battled...

Mastering Revit Architecture 2010

Sybex, 2009

As Autodesk's fastest-growing software package, Revit Architecture offers a new version that will require Revit users of all areas of expertise—architects, project managers, designers, contractors, and building owners—to learn new skills. As the only complete tutorial and reference for the newest version of Revit software, this book...

Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes

Dover Publications, 1997

Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of a number of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics and language. Delightful elucidations of methods for misunderstanding the real world of experiment (Aristotle™s Circle paradox), being led astray by algebra (De Morgan™s paradox) and other mind-benders. Some...

Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

MIT Press, 2004

Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawingsÐ²Ð”among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devicesÐ²Ð”have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance...

Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine

Springer, 2009

Practical Programming in the Cell Broadband Engine offers a unique programming guide for the Cell Broadband Engine, demonstrating a large number of real-life programs to identify and solve problems in engineering, logic design, VLSI CAD, number-theory, graph-theory, computational geometry, image processing, and other subjects. This...

Introduction to General Relativity

Cambridge University Press, 2009

A student-friendly style, over 100 illustrations, and numerous exercises are brought together in this textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics and mathematics. Lewis Ryder develops the theory of general relativity in detail. Covering the core topics of black holes, gravitational radiation, and cosmology, he...

Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Springer, 2007

This unique book focuses on comparing several types of 3D models. Due to the rapid developments in sensor techniques a vast amount of 3D data is available. Effective algorithms for (semi) automatic object reconstruction are required. Integration of existing 2D objects with height data is a non-trivial process and needs further research. The...

The LLL Algorithm: Survey and Applications (Information Security and Cryptography)

Springer, 2009

The LLL algorithm is a polynomial-time lattice reduction algorithm, named after its inventors, Arjen Lenstra, Hendrik Lenstra and László Lovász. The algorithm has revolutionized computational aspects of the geometry of numbers since its introduction in 1982, leading to breakthroughs in fields as diverse as computer algebra,...

Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

In clearly structured chapters, this book covers the fascinating world of hydrocarbons, providing an insight into the fundamental principles of chemistry. The monograph covers modern aspects of the topic, such as carbon nanotubes, molecular flask inclusion, and fullerenes, with new synthetic procedures for the build up of the structural lattice...

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