SC - 1343 | Illustrated Maths Dictionary

Judith De Klerk

This fourth edition of the best-selling Illustrated Maths Dictionary features a new design, new illustrations and the addition of computer terminology in the useful information section. The new edition comes with an electronic version of the dictionary for use on your computer.

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SC - 1340 | 104 Number Theory Problems: From the Training of the USA IMO Team

Titu Andreescu, Dorin Andrica, Zuming Feng

This challenging problem book by renowned US Olympiad coaches, mathematics teachers, and researchers develops a multitude of problem-solving skills needed to excel in mathematical contests and research in number theory. Offering inspiration and intellectual delight, the problems throughout the book encourage students to express their ideas, conjectures, and conclusions in writing. Applying specific techniques and strategies, readers will acquire a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts and ideas of number theory.

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305 - Criminal Poisoning

Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys (Forensic Science and Medicine) by John H. Trestrail III (2007-04-30) by John H. Trestrail III (Author)

In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder.

Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques for crime scene investigation, and the critical essentials of the forensic autopsy.

The author updates what is currently known about poisoners in general and their victims. The Appendix has been updated to include the more commonly used poisons, as well as the use of antifreeze as a poison.

2007 | ISBN: 1588298213 |  ID - 305

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SC - 806 | Waves in Geophysical Fluids

Waves in Geophysical Fluids: Tsunamis, Rogue Waves, Internal Waves and Internal Tides: 489 (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences) by John Grue (Editor), Karsten Trulsen (Editor)

This book describes the forecasting and risk evaluation of tsunamis by tectonic motion, land slides, explosions, run-up, and maps the tsunami sources in the world's oceans. It presents stochastic Monte-Carlo simulations and focusing mechanisms for rogue waves, nonlinear wave models, breather formulas, and the kinematics of the Draupner wave. Coverage also reveals the full story about the discovery of the very large oceanic internal waves.

2007 | ISBN: 3211374604 | ID: SC - 806

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SC - 837 | Subatomic Physics

Subatomic Physics (3rd Edition) by Ernest M. Henley (Author), Alejandro Garcia (Author)

This is the third and fully updated edition of the classic textbook on physics at the subatomic level. An up-to-date and lucid introduction to both particle and nuclear physics, the book is suitable for both experimental and theoretical physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels.

Topics are introduced with key experiments and their background, encouraging students to think and empowering them with the capability of doing back-of-the-envelope calculations in a diversity of situations. Earlier important experiments and concepts as well as topics of current interest are covered, with extensive use of photographs and figures to convey principal concepts and show experimental data. This modern edition makes use of Lagrangians rather than Hamiltonians (where appropriate) and greater use of relativistic notations. The coverage includes new material on: detectors and accelerators; nucleon elastic form factor data; neutrinos, their masses and oscillations; chiral theories and effective field theories, and lattice QCD; relativistic heavy ions (RHIC); nuclear structure far from the region of stability; and particle astrophysics and cosmology.

2007 | ISBN: 9812700560 | ID: SC - 837

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* Handbook of High - Temperature Superconductivity

Handbook of High - Temperature Superconductivity: Theory and Experiment by J.S. Brooks (Adapter), J. Robert Schrieffer (Editor)

Since the 1980s, a general theme in the study of high-temperature superconductors has been to test the BCS theory and its predictions against new data. At the same time, this process has engendered new physics, new materials, and new theoretical frameworks. Remarkable advances have occurred in sample quality and in single crystals, in hole and electron doping in the development of sister compounds with lower transition temperatures, and in instruments to probe structure and dynamics.

Handbook of High-Temperature Superconductvity is a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of both experimental and theoretical methodologies by the the world's top leaders in the field. The Editor, Nobel Laureate J. Robert Schrieffer, and Associate Editor James?S. Brooks, have produced a unified, coherent work providing a global view of high-temperature superconductivity covering the materials, the relationships with heavy-fermion and organic systems, and the many formidable challenges that remain.

2007 | ISBN: 0387350713 | 35MB

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SC - 845 | Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows

Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows: Boundary Stabilization and State Estimation (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications) by Rafael Vazquez (Author), Miroslav Krstic (Author)

This monograph presents new constructive design methods for boundary stabilization and boundary estimation for several classes of benchmark problems in flow control, with potential applications to turbulence control, weather forecasting, and plasma control. One of the main features of the book is a unique "backstepping" approach to parabolic partial differential equations, which yields not only the stabilization of the flow, but also the explicit solvability of the closed-loop system.

The work is an excellent reference for a broad, interdisciplinary engineering and mathematics audience: control theorists, fluid mechanicists, mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, chemical engineers, electrical engineers, applied mathematicians, as well as research and graduate students in these fields.

2007 | ISBN: 0817646981 | ID: SC - 845

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SC - 853 | Optical Imaging and Microscopy

Optical Imaging and Microscopy: Techniques and Advanced Systems (Springer Series in Optical Sciences) by Peter Török (Editor), Fu-Jen Kao (Editor)

This text on contemporary optical systems is intended for optical researchers and engineers, graduate students and optical microscopists in the biological and biomedical sciences. In three sections, the book discusses high-aperture optical systems, nonlinear optical techniques, and various techniques that are finding new applications. The new second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to account for new advances in fluorescence imaging and diffractive optical lenses.

2007 | ISBN: 354069563X | ID: SC - 853

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SC - 968 | Superlinear Parabolic Problems

Superlinear Parabolic Problems: Blow-up, Global Existence and Steady States by Pavol Quittner (Author), Philippe Souplet (Author)

This book is devoted to the qualitative study of solutions of superlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations and systems. This class of problems contains, in particular, a number of reaction-diffusion systems which arise in various mathematical models, especially in chemistry, physics and biology.

The book is self-contained and up-to-date, taking special care on the didactical preparation of the material. It is devoted to problems that are intensively studied but have not been treated thus far in depth in the book literature.

2007 | ISBN: 978-3-7643-8441-8 | ID: SC - 968

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SC - 1011 | Catastrophes in Nature and Society: Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems

Many people are concerned about crises leading to disasters in nature, in social and economic life. The book offers a popular account of the causative mechanisms of critical states and breakdown in a broad range of natural and cultural systems - which obey the same laws - and thus makes the reader aware of the origin of catastrophic events and the ways to avoid and mitigate their negative consequences.

The authors apply a single mathematical approach to investigate the revolt of cancer cells that destroy living organisms and population outbreaks that upset natural ecosystems, the balance between biosphere and global climate interfered lately by industry, the driving mechanisms of market and related economic and social phenomena, as well as the electoral system the proper use of which is an arduous accomplishment of democracy.

2007 | ISBN: 9812569170 | ID: SC - 1011

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SC - 1018 | Permutation Methods: A Distance Function Approach

Permutation Methods: A Distance Function Approach (Springer Series in Statistics)
by Paul W. Mielke (Author), Kenneth J. Berry (Author)

This is the second edition of the comprehensive treatment of statistical inference using permutation techniques.

It makes available to practitioners a variety of useful and powerful data analytic tools that rely on very few distributional assumptions. Although many of these procedures have appeared in journal articles, they are not readily available to practitioners. This new and updated edition places increased emphasis on the use of alternative permutation statistical tests based on metric Euclidean distance functions that have excellent robustness characteristics. These alternative permutation techniques provide many powerful multivariate tests including multivariate multiple regression analyses.

2007 | ISBN 978-0-387-69811-3 | e-ISBN 978-0-387-69813-7 | ID: SC - 1018

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SC - 1051 | Teach Your Children Tables

Bill Handley is well known for making maths fun! The first edition of Teach Your Children Tables challenged over 20000 readers -- and Bill has been inundated with letters of thanks since from parents whose children have quickly become proficient in maths and problem solving.

This not only pleases their teachers but does wonders for a child's self-esteem. In this new, fully revised edition, rewritten for clearer understanding, Bill expands the sections on explaining multiplication to young children, on problem solving, and the correlation between the multiplication method and subtraction.

2007 | ISBN: 0731406648 | ID: SC - 1051

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SC - 1110 | Finite Markov Processes and Their Applications (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Finite Markov Processes and Their Applications (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Marius Iosifescu

A self-contained treatment of finite Markov chains and processes, this text covers both theory and applications. Author Marius Iosifescu, vice president of the Romanian Academy and director of its Center for Mathematical Statistics, begins with a review of relevant aspects of probability theory and linear algebra.

Experienced readers may start with the second chapter, a treatment of fundamental concepts of homogeneous finite Markov chain theory that offers examples of applicable models.

The text advances to studies of two basic types of homogeneous finite Markov chains: absorbing and ergodic chains. A complete study of the general properties of homogeneous chains follows. Succeeding chapters examine the fundamental role of homogeneous infinite Markov chains in mathematical modeling employed in the fields of psychology and genetics; the basics of nonhomogeneous finite Markov chain theory; and a study of Markovian dependence in continuous time, which constitutes an elementary introduction to the study of continuous parameter stochastic processes.

2007 | eISBN-13: 978-0-486-45869-4 | ID: SC - 1110

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