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Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

An essential reference for optical sensor system design

This is the first text to present an integrated view of the optical and mathematical analysis tools necessary to understand computational optical system design. It presents the foundations of computational optical sensor design with a focus entirely on digital imaging and spectroscopy. It...

Complex Variables: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Dover Publications, 1999

Hundreds of solved examples, exercises, and applications help students gain a firm understanding of the most important topics in the theory and applications of complex variables. Topics include the complex plane, basic properties of analytic functions, analytic functions as mappings, analytic and harmonic functions in applications, and transform...

Enabling Optical Internet with Advanced Network Technologies (Computer Communications and Networks)

Springer, 2009

This reference provides an overview of the key concepts related to the major issues of optical Internet, and studies traditionally and recently proposed optical switching paradigms. The concise coverage presents a detailed comparison of optical switching technologies, and covers architectural issues together with topics such as signaling protocols...

$The Enjoyment of Math$

The Enjoyment of Math

Princeton Press, 1966

A thoroughly enjoyable sampler of fascinating mathematical problems and their solutions.
(Science )

Each chapter is a gem of mathematical exposition.... [The book] will not only stretch the imagination of the amateur, but it will also give pleasure to the sophisticated mathematician.
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Advanced Euclidean Geometry (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Dover Publications, 2007

Tms book deals with the geometry of the triangle and the circle, as developed extensively in the nineteenth century by British and Continental writers. This geometry, based entirely on the elementary plane geometry of Euclid or its modern equivalent, is rapidly coming to its due recognition as excellent material for college courses. Perhaps in no...

Multiwavelength Optical Networks: Architectures, Design, and Control

Cambridge University Press, 2008

"The rationale for the second edition is solid, and the proposed changes are extensive and comprehensive, covering the most important advances in the field since the first edition was published. The authors' credentials are impeccable. I used the first edition extensively, both as a reference for my research and for my graduate course on...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane

Oxford University Press, 2000

"Dr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman."--Anthropology...

Autonomic Communication

Springer, 2009

New paradigms for communication/networking systems are needed in order to tackle such emerging issues as heterogeneity, complexity and management of evolvable infrastructures, thus requiring approaches that are both task- and knowledge-driven. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies and devices in a dynamically changing...

After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's "War on Terror" torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights...

$How Fighter Pilots Use Math (Math in the Real World)$

How Fighter Pilots Use Math (Math in the Real World)

Chelsea House Publications, 2009

The jet engine roars as Colonel Maria Sanchez races the F-35 down the runway. The plane leaps into the air. At 1,000 feet, she banks and circles the Air Force base to give three other fighter planes time to take off and join her.

Sanchez heads north. The three other planes fall into formation around her. Together, the planes make a...

Are You Afraid of the Dark? : A Novel

William Morrow, 2004

All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing.

In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police...

Difference Equations, Second Edition: An Introduction with Applications

Academic Press, 2000

Difference Equations, Second Edition, presents a practical introduction to this important field of solutions for engineering and the physical sciences. Topic coverage includes numerical analysis, numerical methods, differential equations, combinatorics and discrete modeling. A hallmark of this revision is the diverse application to...

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