An introduction to gradient-based stochastic optimization that integrates theory and implementation This book explains gradient-based stochastic optimization, exploiting the methodologies of...

Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists...

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 15...

"Fra tutte le invenzioni dell'intelletto, quella dell'Infinito è, forse, la più affascinante. Tanto più che nella realtà del mondo fisico, nulla parla d'Infinito. Eppure, dalla matematica alla...

What is it about the ivory-billed woodpecker? Why does this ghost of the southern swamps arouse such an obsessive level of passion in its devotees, who range from respected researchers to the...

This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and...

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In the main, nineteenth-century German theologians paid little attention to natural science and especially eschewed philosophically popular yet naive versions of natural theology. Frederick Gregory...

An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologies   Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter...

The attention of the chess-playing world, was drawn to the Gulf state of Bahrain where His Majesty the King of Bahrain had offered a million dollar prize for a match between world chess champion...

Comprises 11 major essays by Joseph Needham, one of the pre-eminent scholars in the study of the history of science in Chinese civilization and critic of the dominating role of science in Western...

In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes­ sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub­ lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor...

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step--from Jacques de...

Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Marcuse's...

A comprehensive study of the geopolitical, security, economic, and environmental future of a major game-changing phenomenon--the alternative energy megatrend. This is not another alternative energy...

An examination of some of the remarkable connections between group theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry over finite fields Exponential sums have been of great interest ever since Gauss, and...

Die Aufsiitze des vorliegenden Bandes wurden zwischen 1950 und 1980 ge­ schrieben. 2/15· ist der friiheste Aufsatz. Ich schrieb ihn 1950/52, teils in Wien, nach Diskussionen mit Elizabeth Anscombe,...