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The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics

Oxford University Press, 2008

"Provides a nice mix of elementary physical optics with practical and exciting applications."--Stephen Barnett, University of Strathclyde

This book presents a thorough and self-contained introduction to modern optics, covering in full the three components ray optics, wave optics, and quantum optics. The text covers all...

Mastering Digital Photography and Imaging

Sybex, 2004

"A must-read for those who want to enhance their digital photography experience."
—George Schaub, Editorial Director, Shutterbug and eDigitalPhoto magazines

With a three or more megapixel digital camera or a good scanner, affordable image-editing software, and a photo-realistic printer, you have...

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

Visual, 2007

You already know PowerPoint 2007 basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and...

Markov Chains (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)

Cambridge University Press, 1997

In this rigorous account the author studies both discrete-time and continuous-time chains. A distinguishing feature is an introduction to more advanced topics such as martingales and potentials, in the established context of Markov chains. There are applications to simulation, economics, optimal control, genetics, queues and many other topics, and...

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

Apress, 2008

Gain a fundamental understanding of Python’s syntax and features with the second edition of Beginning Python, an up–to–date introduction and practical reference. Covering a wide array of Python–related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web...

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Washington Square Press, 1991

'An exquisite portrait...the rarest of literary achievements...Ramanujan's tale is the stuff of fable' LOS ANGELES TIMES 'an exciting and thoughtful book... should catch the imagination of any reader- even the reader with little mathematical background.' INDEPENDENT 'This is a fine example of a work of popularising mathematics, and deserves a wide...

Making Your Own Telescope

Dover Publications, 2003

Complete, detailed instructions and numerous diagrams for constructing a do-it-yourself telescope. No complicated mathematics are involved, and no prior knowledge of optics or astronomy is needed to follow the text's step-by-step directions. Contents cover, among other topics, materials and equipment; tube parts and alignment; eyepieces, and...

Hickman's Analog and RF Circuits

Newnes, 1998

I have been writing articles for magazines since the early 1970s, and many of these have been published in Electronics World (founded in 1911 as The Marconigraph but known for most of its life as Wireless World). This is undoubtedly the foremost electronics magazine in the UK, being widely read by professional electronics engineers on the one...

Adaptive Web Sites: A Knowledge Extraction from Web Data Approach - Volume 170 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2008

This book can be presented in two different ways; introducing a particular methodology to build adaptive Web sites and; presenting the main concepts behind Web mining and then applying them to adaptive Web sites. In this case, adaptive Web sites is the case study to exemplify the tools introduced in the text. The authors start by introducing the...

Ontology and the Semantic Web: Volume 156 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2007

In order for information systems supporting two different organizations to interoperate, there must be an agreement as to what the words mean. There are many such agreements in place, supporting information systems interoperation in many different application areas. Most of these agreements have been created as part of diverse systems development...

Signaling And Switching For Packet Telephony (Artech House Telecommunications Library)

Artech House Publishers, 2004

Voice telephony was arguably the first telecommunications service to achieve truly widespread deployment. Data services came into their own much later. To be sure, data telecommunication (in the form of smoke signals and other visual semaphore schemes, for example) has been around for a very long time. Note also that the telegraph preceded the...

Principles of Model Checking

MIT Press, 2008

Our growing dependence on increasingly complex computer and software systems necessitates the development of formalisms, techniques, and tools for assessing functional properties of these systems. One such technique that has emerged in the last twenty years is model checking, which systematically (and automatically) checks whether a model of a...

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