Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
Author: Peter Damerow
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 147573994X

The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction
Author: Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137330791

Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

The Book of Universes

The Book of Universes
Author: John D. Barrow
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0393081214

Barrow presents an unforgettable tour of the strange and wonderful universes that modern physics posits might--just might--be out there.

Limits, Limits Everywhere

Limits, Limits Everywhere
Author: David Applebaum
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0191627879

A quantity can be made smaller and smaller without it ever vanishing. This fact has profound consequences for science, technology, and even the way we think about numbers. In this book, we will explore this idea by moving at an easy pace through an account of elementary real analysis and, in particular, will focus on numbers, sequences, and series. Almost all textbooks on introductory analysis assume some background in calculus. This book doesn't and, instead, the emphasis is on the application of analysis to number theory. The book is split into two parts. Part 1 follows a standard university course on analysis and each chapter closes with a set of exercises. Here, numbers, inequalities, convergence of sequences, and infinite series are all covered. Part 2 contains a selection of more unusual topics that aren't usually found in books of this type. It includes proofs of the irrationality of e and π, continued fractions, an introduction to the Riemann zeta function, Cantor's theory of the infinite, and Dedekind cuts. There is also a survey of what analysis can do for the calculus and a brief history of the subject. A lot of material found in a standard university course on "real analysis" is covered and most of the mathematics is written in standard theorem-proof style. However, more details are given than is usually the case to help readers who find this style daunting. Both set theory and proof by induction are avoided in the interests of making the book accessible to a wider readership, but both of these topics are the subjects of appendices for those who are interested in them. And unlike most university texts at this level, topics that have featured in popular science books, such as the Riemann hypothesis, are introduced here. As a result, this book occupies a unique position between a popular mathematics book and a first year college or university text, and offers a relaxed introduction to a fascinating and important branch of mathematics.

A Concept of Limits

A Concept of Limits
Author: Donald W. Hight
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486153126

An exploration of conceptual foundations and the practical applications of limits in mathematics, this text offers a concise introduction to the theoretical study of calculus. Many exercises with solutions. 1966 edition.

Exploring Limits

Exploring Limits
Author: Ariel Tachna
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9781644050705

When actors Kit and Devon fail to capture the attention of their bicurious costar, Jonathan, they team up to seduce him, and the three men test their physical and emotional limits with a wide range of kinky sex.

Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap

Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap
Author: Raoul LePage
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1992-04-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780471536314

Explores the application of bootstrap to problems that place unusual demands on the method. The bootstrap method, introduced by Bradley Efron in 1973, is a nonparametric technique for inferring the distribution of a statistic derived from a sample. Most of the papers were presented at a special meeting sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Interface Foundation in May, 1990.

The Dark Side of Game Play

The Dark Side of Game Play
Author: Torill Elvira Mortensen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131757446X

Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists; they allow us to play with behaviour that would be offensive, illegal or immoral if it happened outside of the game sphere. While contemporary games have always handled certain problematic topics, such as war, disasters, human decay, post-apocalyptic futures, cruelty and betrayal, lately even the most playful of genres are introducing situations in which players are presented with difficult ethical and moral dilemmas. This volume is an investigation of "dark play" in video games, or game play with controversial themes as well as controversial play behaviour. It covers such questions as: Why do some games stir up political controversies? How do games invite, or even push players towards dark play through their design? Where are the boundaries for what can be presented in a games? Are these boundaries different from other media such as film and books, and if so why? What is the allure of dark play and why do players engage in these practices?

Discovering A Life Without Limits

Discovering A Life Without Limits
Author: Kyle Coon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-03-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781734275032

By the age of seven, Kyle Coon had his second eye removed and became totally blind. Discovering a Life Without Limits is the true story of Kyle going from the darkness of blindness to the world's mountain peaks while navigating everyday life. Through the journey, Kyle learns how to trust a world he cannot see and how to conquer the fear of the unknown while asking the reader a simple question: Are you ready to live a Life Without Limits?

Complexity Theory

Complexity Theory
Author: Ingo Wegener
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2005-04-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540210458

Reflects recent developments in its emphasis on randomized and approximation algorithms and communication models All topics are considered from an algorithmic point of view stressing the implications for algorithm design