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Mobius and his Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century GermanyAugust Mobius was one of the 19th century's most influential mathematicians and astronomers. Written by six distinguished contributors, this book explores the work of Mobius and his brilliant German contemporaries. The work emphasizes those achievements which in many ways can be seen to reflect the exciting advances taking place at the time... | | Oracle PL/SQL by Example (4th Edition)Start developing applications with Oracle PL/SQL-fast! This integrated book-and-Web learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, projects, and a complete Web-based training site. Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Third Edition covers Oracle 10G and all the... | | Oscillators Simplified, With Sixty One Projects0 NE OF THE MOST BASIC OF ALL ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS IS THE oscilator, or signal generator. Virtually all electronics systems incorporate at least one such circuit.
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The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth CenturyIf science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout... | | CosmologyThis book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a one-semester graduate course. The first part deals chiefly with the isotropic and homogeneous... | | Introduction to Precise Numerical Methods, Second EditionNow that powerful PCs and Macs are everywhere available, when solving a numerical problem, we should no longer be content with an indefinite answer, that is, an answer where the error bound is either unknown or a vague guess. This book’s software allows you to obtain your numerical answers to a prescribed number of correct decimal places. For... |
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The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics"Provides a nice mix of elementary physical optics with practical and exciting applications."--Stephen Barnett, University of Strathclyde
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