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SuperFractals

Cambridge University Press, 2006

SuperFractals is the long-awaited successor to Fractals Everywhere, in which the power and beauty of Iterated Function Systems were introduced and applied to producing startling and original images that reflect complex structures found for example in nature. This provoked the question of whether there is a deeper connection between topology,...

Organize Your Life: Free Yourself from Clutter and Find More Personal Time

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Time—don’t we all wish we had more of it! I don’t need to tell you that twenty-four hours per day is all we get. The trick is to make the most of our time. You really do have time for what you need and want to do. You just need to start setting priorities.

Most of my clients find that they are so overwhelmed by all the...

A Dictionary of Real Numbers

Springer, 1990

How do we recognize that the number .93371663... is actually 21og1 0(e + 7r)/2 ? Gauss observed that the number 1.85407467... is (essentially) a rational value of an elliptic integral—an observation that was critical in the development of nineteenth century analysis. How do we decide that such a number is actually a special value of a...

Models of Discovery and Creativity (Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity)

Springer, 2009

Since the origin of the modern sciences, our views on discovery and creativity had a remarkable history. Originally, discovery was seen as an integral part of methodology and the logic of discovery as algorithmic or nearly algorithmic. During the nineteenth century, conceptions in line with romanticism led to the famous opposition between the...

Be #1 on Google: 52 Fast and Easy Search Engine Optimization Tools to Drive Customers to Your Web Site

McGraw-Hill, 2009

There’s having a Web site and there’s having a Web site that works. It’s all very well to have a flashy intro, a fully integrated shopping basket, and lots of features and functionality that can wow the audience on every single page. But what if they can’t find you? What if you’re not visible on the search engines and...

Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics
Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the...

What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

what is death?

A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the...

Buying Trances: A New Psychology of Sales and Marketing

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Praise for Buying Trances

"The genius of Joe Vitale has never shone brighter. This thoroughly documented and easy-to-read book is the first of its kind. Vitale gives you the keys to their minds. All you have to do is turn the keys. They said 'yes' to you long before you said a word and they were begging to buy from you...

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2009

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The third edition of this best-selling book, published in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8.

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

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...

Master Handbook of Acoustics

McGraw-Hill, 2009

What makes a book a classic? More than anything, a classic book is one that we know and trust, a well-used book with dog-eared covers and underlined passages. Without question, Mr. Everest’s The Master Handbook of Acoustics qualifies as a classic. It was extremely well received when the first edition appeared in 1981, and strong reader demand...

Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (New Mathematical Library Series/No. 32)

Mathematical Association of America, 1987

This is the third and final collection of puzzle columns that I contributed to Isaac Asimov' s Science Fiction Magazine over a period of about ten years. The format follows that of two previous anthologies: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981) and Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984).

Each chapter poses a problem answered in the First Answers...

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