Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic and Logical Foundations
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Yoav Shoham and Kevin Leyton-Brown CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009, 483 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £37.00 ISBN 978-0-521-89943-7 One of the […]
The Num8er My5teries: A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life
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Marcus du Sautoy FOURTH ESTATE – HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS 2010, 304 PAGES PRICE £16.99 (HARDBACK) ISBN 978-0-00-727862-6 Marcus du Sautoy’s latest […]
What’s Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler’s Illusion
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Joseph Mazur PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 296 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £20.95 ISBN 978-0-691-13890-9 Joseph Mazur’s book takes us on a […]
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World
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David Easley and Jon Kleinberg CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 744 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £30.00 ISBN 978-0-521-19533-1 The growth of connectedness […]
Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division
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Christoph Börgers SIAM 2010, 250 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £22.00 ISBN 978-0-89-871695-5 This book is an introduction to, as the title […]
Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life
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Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011, 428 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £20.95 ISBN 978-0-691-14247-0 Mathematicians are different from […]
A Guide to Monte-Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics (Third Edition)
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David P. Landau and Kurt Binder CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009, 470 PAGES PRICE £48.00 (HARDBACK) ISBN 978-0-521-76848-1 The authors, David […]
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
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George G. Szpiro PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 226 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £18.95 ISBN 978-0-69-113994-4 The books starts with Plato, labelled […]
Soliton Equations and Their Algebro-Geometric Solutions: Volume 2, (1+1)-Dimensional Discrete Models
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Fritz Gesztesy, Helge Holden, Johanna Michor, Gerald Teschl CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008, 438 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £85.00 ISBN 978-0-52-175308-1 One […]
Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways and Byways in the History of Mathematics
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009, 392 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £18.00 ISBN 978-0-80-189248-6 In this volume Ivor Grattan-Guinness collects […]