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Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries

Walter de Gruyter, 2008

The essays offer a unified and comprehensive view of 17th century mathematical and metaphysical disputes overÂ status of infinitesimals, particularly the question whether they were real or mere fictions. Leibnizs development of the calculus and his understanding of its metaphysical foundation are taken as both a point of departure and a...

The Physics of Foraging: An Introduction to Random Searches and Biological Encounters

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging from ecological matters to queries such as 'how can there be free will if one follows...

Confessions

Hackett Publishing, 2019

"Williams's masterful translation satisfies (at last!) a long-standing need. There are lots of good translations of Augustine's great work, but until now we have been forced to choose between those that strive to replicate in English something of the majesty and beauty of Augustine's Latin style and those that opt instead...

Maya Secrets of the Pros

Sybex, 2005

Featuring completely original material from a new team of Maya know-it-alls, this second edition of an award-winning book is sure to inform and inspire even the most seasoned Maya user. In this distinctive Maya Press title, a cadre of professionals led by two acclaimed Maya pros, reveal the precious secrets they’ve...

Retro Gaming Hacks

O'Reilly, 2005

Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time. But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing is certain: classic games are back for a big second act, and they're being...

Firewalls 24seven

Sybex, 2002

For experienced network administrators. This updated edition of Firewalls 24seven is the book that you and other network administrators have been waiting for. Starting where other books and training courses end and the real world begins, it provides advanced information on today's most effective security technologies and techniques.

Written to...

How to Set Up Information Systems: A Non-Specialist's Guide to the Multiview Appproach

Earthscan, 2003

A spectacular dialogue of the deaf has been on-going for many years. Information systems are as misunderstood today as they have been for a decade. The designers who make them, the managers who commission them and the stakeholders who use them consistently fail to communicate with each other resulting in the inevitable plethora of systems failures...

KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 27th Annual German Conference in AI, KI 2004, Ulm, Germany, September 20-24, 2004

Springer, 2004

KI 2004 was the 27th edition of the annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers

from all areas of AI and which enjoys increasing international attendance. KI 2004 received 103 submissions from 26 countries. This volume contains the 30 papers that were...

Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Ada is the only ISO-standard, object-oriented, concurrent, real-time programming language. It is intended for use in large, long-lived applications where reliability and efficiency are essential, particularly real-time and embedded systems. In this book, Alan Burns and Andy Wellings give a thorough, self-contained account of how the Ada tasking...

Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C: From USB to RTOS with the PIC 18F Series

Newnes, 2008

This book is ideal for the engineer, technician, hobbyist and student who have knowledge of the basic principles of PIC microcontrollers and want to develop more advanced applications using the 18F series.

The architecture of the PIC 18FXXX series as well as typical oscillator, reset, memory, and input-output circuits is completely...

H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first...

From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge: The Principles and Practice of Health Informatics

BMJ Books, 2006

How can you make the best use of patient data to improve health outcomes? More and more information about patients’ health is stored on increasingly interconnected computer systems. But is it shared in ways that help clinicians care for patients? Could it be better used as a resource for researchers?

This book is aimed at all...

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