Who Gave You the Epsilon?

Who Gave You the Epsilon?
Author: Marlow Anderson
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780883855690

Follows on from Sherlock Holmes in Babylon to take the history of mathematics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics
Author: Joel David Hamkins
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0262542234

An introduction to the philosophy of mathematics grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice. In this book, Joel David Hamkins offers an introduction to the philosophy of mathematics that is grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice. He treats philosophical issues as they arise organically in mathematics, discussing such topics as platonism, realism, logicism, structuralism, formalism, infinity, and intuitionism in mathematical contexts. He organizes the book by mathematical themes--numbers, rigor, geometry, proof, computability, incompleteness, and set theory--that give rise again and again to philosophical considerations.

A Historian Looks Back

A Historian Looks Back
Author: Judith V. Grabiner
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0883855720

An inspiring collection of a historian's work on the history of mathematics.

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Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 904
Release:
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ISBN: 0357759567

The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus

The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus
Author: Judith V. Grabiner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-05-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486143740

This text examines the reinterpretation of calculus by Augustin-Louis Cauchy and his peers in the 19th century. These intellectuals created a collection of well-defined theorems about limits, continuity, series, derivatives, and integrals. 1981 edition.

The Key

The Key
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Total Pages: 184
Release: 1927
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When the Stars Collide

When the Stars Collide
Author: Alexis Harris
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1666734977

One hundred years of peace are at an end . . . In the land of Abyumo, Orion and his dragon, Saphron, live in a mountain stronghold. They’re trying their hardest to make it to the coveted training mountain, in the hopes of making names for themselves, but they can’t even beat their closest friends in a practice duel. When they inadvertently become the sole witnesses to a horrific event, it’s up to them to find a way to stop the dark rider, Dredon, and his dragon, Obsidian. Will they be able to gather an army and train enough to defeat them before the stars collide? Or will the dark dragon and his rider take over?

Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization

Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization
Author: John White
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2013
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449341330

When looking for ways to improve your website, how do you decide which changes to make? And which changes to keep? This concise book shows you how to use Multiarmed Bandit algorithms to measure the real-world value of any modifications you make to your site. Author John Myles White shows you how this powerful class of algorithms can help you boost website traffic, convert visitors to customers, and increase many other measures of success. This is the first developer-focused book on bandit algorithms, which were previously described only in research papers. You’ll quickly learn the benefits of several simple algorithms—including the epsilon-Greedy, Softmax, and Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithms—by working through code examples written in Python, which you can easily adapt for deployment on your own website. Learn the basics of A/B testing—and recognize when it’s better to use bandit algorithms Develop a unit testing framework for debugging bandit algorithms Get additional code examples written in Julia, Ruby, and JavaScript with supplemental online materials