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Author : Arthur Robins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997228403
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (284 download)
Download or read book An Imaginary Tail written by Arthur Robins and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338208799
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)
Download or read book What If You Had An Animal Tail? written by Sandra Markle and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could have any animal's tail, whose would you choose? What if you woke up one morning and you had sprouted a tail overnight? What If You Had An Animal Tail? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw that you had an animal tail! From a peacock's showstopping tail to a scorpion's dangerous stinger, discover what it would be like if you had one of these special tails -- and find out why your own tailbone is just the right one for you!
Author : Paul Nahin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400833892
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book An Imaginary Tale written by Paul Nahin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i. He recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up, and the colorful characters who tried to solve them. In 1878, when two brothers stole a mathematical papyrus from the ancient Egyptian burial site in the Valley of Kings, they led scholars to the earliest known occurrence of the square root of a negative number. The papyrus offered a specific numerical example of how to calculate the volume of a truncated square pyramid, which implied the need for i. In the first century, the mathematician-engineer Heron of Alexandria encountered I in a separate project, but fudged the arithmetic; medieval mathematicians stumbled upon the concept while grappling with the meaning of negative numbers, but dismissed their square roots as nonsense. By the time of Descartes, a theoretical use for these elusive square roots--now called "imaginary numbers"--was suspected, but efforts to solve them led to intense, bitter debates. The notorious i finally won acceptance and was put to use in complex analysis and theoretical physics in Napoleonic times. Addressing readers with both a general and scholarly interest in mathematics, Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts and mathematical discussions, including the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems, such as Kepler's laws of planetary motion and ac electrical circuits. This book can be read as an engaging history, almost a biography, of one of the most evasive and pervasive "numbers" in all of mathematics. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author : May R. Berenbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674053567
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Earwig’s Tail written by May R. Berenbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books—at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the Phylum Arthropoda. In The Earwig’s Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world. Berenbaum’s compendium of tales is an alphabetical tour of modern myths that humorously illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees, ear-boring earwigs, and libido-enhancing Spanish flies. She tracks down the germ of scientific truth that inspires each insect urban legend and shares some wild biological lessons, which, because of the amazing nature of the insect world, can be more fantastic than even the mythic misperceptions.
Author : Kevin Hefferan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444391216
Total Pages : 935 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Earth Materials written by Kevin Hefferan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minerals and rocks form the foundation of geologic studies. This new textbook has been written to address the needs of students at the increasing number of universities that have compressed separate mineralogy and petrology courses into a one- or two-semester Earth materials course. Key features of this book include: equal coverage of mineralogy, sedimentary petrology, igneous petrology and metamorphic petrology; copious field examples and regional relationships with graphics that illustrate the concepts discussed; numerous case studies to show the uses of earth materials as resources and their fundamental role in our lives and the global economy, and their relation to natural and human-induced hazards; the integration of earth materials into a cohesive process-based earth systems framework; two color thoughout with 48 pages of four color. Readership: students taking an earth materials, or combined mineralogy and petrology course in an earth science degree program. It will also be useful for environmental scientists, engineering geologists, and physical geographers who need to learn about minerals, rocks, soil and water in a comprehensive framework. A companion website for this book is available at: www.wiley.com/go/hefferan/earthmaterials.
Author : ʻIzzat Allāh Nigāhbān
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780934718899
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Excavations at Haft Tepe, Iran written by ʻIzzat Allāh Nigāhbān and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1991 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient remains at Haft Tepe (the ancient name of the site is unknown) lie on the plain of Khuzistan in southwestern Iran close to the ruins of ancient Susa. Excavations under the directorship of Ezat Negahban and under the auspices of the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Art were conducted from 1969 through 1979. This volume contains extensive information one excavation and the architectural remains, and includes a catalogue of the artifacts. Of special interest are the many seal impressions. University Museum Monograph, 70
Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World and Its Inhabitants written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Cutler
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144830332X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Power Shift written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly-promoted Inspector Kate Power is steered into dangerous waters in Birmingham CID's latest investigation. Kate Power is newly promoted - and in charge of her own station. So in addition to getting used to the pressures of responsibility and gaining the respect of a new team, she has to get to know a new neighbourhood, with new problems and new crimes. When an important member of the local Chinese business community comes to her with some inside information, Kate is plunged into a case involving illegal immigration and prostitution. Her investigation is hampered by a missing officer - Kate's new colleagues dismiss him as a malingerer, but Kate has reason to believe something more sinister may have happened to him.
Author : Gareth W. Peters
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118909542
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling written by Gareth W. Peters and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVANCES IN HEAVY TAILED RISK MODELING A cutting-edge guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to heavy tailed risk modeling Focusing on the quantitative aspects of heavy tailed loss processes in operational risk and relevant insurance analytics, Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk presents comprehensive coverage of the latest research on the theories and applications in risk measurement and modeling techniques. Featuring a unique balance of mathematical and statistical perspectives, the handbook begins by introducing the motivation for heavy tailed risk processes. A companion with Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational Risk, the handbook provides a complete framework for all aspects of operational risk management and includes: Clear coverage on advanced topics such as splice loss models, extreme value theory, heavy tailed closed form loss distribution approach models, flexible heavy tailed risk models, risk measures, and higher order asymptotic approximations of risk measures for capital estimation An exploration of the characterization and estimation of risk and insurance modeling, which includes sub-exponential models, alpha-stable models, and tempered alpha stable models An extended discussion of the core concepts of risk measurement and capital estimation as well as the details on numerical approaches to evaluation of heavy tailed loss process model capital estimates Numerous detailed examples of real-world methods and practices of operational risk modeling used by both financial and non-financial institutions Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk is an excellent reference for risk management practitioners, quantitative analysts, financial engineers, and risk managers. The handbook is also useful for graduate-level courses on heavy tailed processes, advanced risk management, and actuarial science.
Author : Matthew Bacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Abridgment of the Law written by Matthew Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Captain Duchene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mechanics of the Aeroplane written by Captain Duchene and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Burke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michele Leonardo Bianchi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813276215
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Handbook Of Heavy-tailed Distributions In Asset Management And Risk Management written by Michele Leonardo Bianchi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of heavy-tailed distributions allows researchers to represent phenomena that occasionally exhibit very large deviations from the mean. The dynamics underlying these phenomena is an interesting theoretical subject, but the study of their statistical properties is in itself a very useful endeavor from the point of view of managing assets and controlling risk. In this book, the authors are primarily concerned with the statistical properties of heavy-tailed distributions and with the processes that exhibit jumps. A detailed overview with a Matlab implementation of heavy-tailed models applied in asset management and risk managements is presented. The book is not intended as a theoretical treatise on probability or statistics, but as a tool to understand the main concepts regarding heavy-tailed random variables and processes as applied to real-world applications in finance. Accordingly, the authors review approaches and methodologies whose realization will be useful for developing new methods for forecasting of financial variables where extreme events are not treated as anomalies, but as intrinsic parts of the economic process.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
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Author : A. Nishida
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
ISBN 13 : 0875900887
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Earth's Magnetotail written by A. Nishida and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the nightside of the Earth, a long magnetic tail is formed by the tangential stress that is exerted by the solar wind as it flows by the planet. The magnetotail is the nightside extension of the Earth's magnetosphere in which the geomagnetic field is confined by the solar wind, and its framework is formed by the field lines e.
Author : Holman Day
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Where Your Treasure is written by Holman Day and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Olsen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579459
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book BodyStories written by Andrea Olsen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body system and provide self-guided studies. The book draws on Ms. Olsen's thirty years as a dancer and teacher of anatomy to show how our attitudes and approaches to our body affect us day to day. Amusing and insightful personal stories enliven the text and provide ways of working with the body for efficiency and for healing. BodyStories is used as a primary text in college dance departments, massage schools, and yoga training programs internationally.
