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Over a decade ago, a small team of designers met in a small conference room on the second floor of Building 41 at Microsoft to create a brand-new language, C#. The guiding principles of the language emphasized simplicity, familiarity, safety, and practicality. Of course, all those principles needed to balance against one another; none are...

Since the dawn of computing, the quest for a better understanding of Nature has been a driving force for technological development. Groundbreaking achievements by great scientists have paved the way from the abacus to the supercomputing power of today. When trying to replicate Nature in the computer’s silicon test tube, there is need...

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The thoroughly expanded Second Edition presents a unique, hands-on approach to game theory. While most books on the subject are too abstract or too basic for mathematicians, Game Theory: An Introduction, Second...