This book gives a quick overview of making money, or losing money more slowly, at various games of chance. Thorp was best known for "inventing" a system of card counting for blackjack and basic strategy. He wrote the 1962 book "Beat the Dealer" which spawned a whole genre of win-at-gambling books that continue to this day.
Electromagnetic Sounding of the Earth's Interior Elsevier Science | 2006-11-29 | ISBN:0444529381 | 404 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB
Based on lectures given in the First Russian School-Seminar on electromagnetic soundings of the Earth held in Moscow on 15th November, 2003, this book acquaints scientists and technologists with the latest achievements in theory, techniques and practical applications of the methods of electromagnetic sounding. This three part text covers the methods considered for Earth electromagnetic sounding on a global, regional, and local scale; modern methods for solving forward and inverse problems of geoelectrics, particularily contemporary approaches to the EM data modeling and interpretation in the class of three-dimensional models; and the results of regional EM on-land and sea soundings.
Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics Springer | 2005-02-24 | ISBN:1402032102 | 360 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the discipline, from epistemology and the philosophy of logic to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. Part of the fruitfulness of Hintikkas work is due to its opening important new lines of investigation and new approaches to traditional philosophical problems.
From Peirce to Skolem North Holland | 2000-07-01 | ISBN:044450334X | 625 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This book is an account of the important influence on the development of mathematical logic of Charles S. Peirce and his student O.H. Mitchell, through the work of Ernst Schröder, Leopold Löwenheim, and Thoralf Skolem. As far as we know, this book is the first work delineating this line of influence on modern mathematical logic.
Rudiments of mu-calculus North Holland | 2001-04-01 | ISBN:0444506209 | 296 pages | PDF | 11,1 MB
This book presents what in our opinion constitutes the basis of the theory of the mu-calculus, considered as an algebraic system rather than a logic. We have wished to present the subject in a unified way, and in a form as general as possible. Therefore, our emphasis is on the generality of the fixed-point notation, and on the connections between mu-calculus, games, and automata, which we also explain in an algebraic way.
Principles of the Gravitational Method Elsevier Science | 2007-12-17 | ISBN:0444529934 | 270 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
This self-contained monograph gives a thorough introduction to the theory of gravity which is used as the basis for developing applications in exploration and geodesy. In addition, a survey of gravity instrumentation is given, with emphasis on the theory of underlying these instruments. The book finishes with an exposition of forward modeling and inverston, again emphasizing fundamental principles.
Fluid Mechanics Mcgraw-Hill College | 1998-12 | ISBN: 0072281928 | 813 pages | PDF | 12,3 MB
The fourth edition of Fluid Mechanics continues the tradition of precision, accuracy, accessibility and strong conceptual presentation. The author balances three separate approaches¿integral, differential and experimental¿to provide a foundation for fluid mechanics concepts and applications.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics Grove's Dictionaries | January 2001 | ISBN: 1561592684 | 2500 pages | DjVu | 50,4 MB
This four-volume set contains over 3000 articles covering a broad range of topics in astronomy and astrophysics, making it one of the largest reference sources available on the topic. Murdin (End of Fire: The Supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud) and his editorial board have assembled more than 800 astronomers and astrophysicists, who produced both lengthy main articles tackling main themes in astronomy and briefer, unsigned entries.