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In an investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara J. Schechner delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, She examines how "vulgar superstitions were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley and became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.

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Deals with the characterization of hypergeometric-like functions, that is, twists of hypergeometric functions in n-variables. This book compares monodromy groups corresponding to different parameters and proves commensurability modulo inner automorphisms of PU(1,n).

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Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day.

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Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day.

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Through theoretical synthesis, this work shows that the key biotic drivers of community and ecosystem properties involve linkages between aboveground and belowground food webs, biotic interaction, the spatial and temporal dynamics of component organisms, and, the ecophysiological traits of those organisms that emerge as ecological drivers.

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Emphasizes the role of competition at levels above single species populations, and describes how competition, by way of the niche concept, determines the structure of communities. This work draws most examples from eleven North and South American bird communities, although the concepts and methodology are far more general.

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Addressing researchers and graduate students in the meeting ground of analysis, geometry, and dynamics, this book presents a study of renormalization of quadratic polynomials and an introduction to techniques in complex dynamics. Its central concern is the structure of an infinitely renormalizable quadratic polynomial f(z) = z2 + c.

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The description for this book, Compositional Methods in Homotopy Groups of Spheres. (AM-49), will be forthcoming.

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Modular forms are tremendously important in various areas of mathematics, from number theory and algebraic geometry to combinatorics and lattices. This title gives an algorithm for computing coefficients of modular forms of level one in polynomial time.

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This text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past several years, provides an in-depth introduction to the main ideas in the computational cognitive neuroscience.

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Formal verification increasingly has become recognized as an answer to the problem of how to create ever more complex control systems, which nonetheless are required to behave reliably. To be acceptable in an industrial setting, formal verification must be highly algorithmic; to cope with design complexity, it must support a top-down design methodo

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Presents an area of mathematical research that combines topology, geometry, and logic. This book seeks to explain and illustrate the implications of the general principle, first emphasized by Alex Nabutovsky, that logical complexity engenders geometric complexity.

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Part of the Greenwood Technographies series Provides a worldwide examination of computing, and how such needs as security and defence during the Cold War drove the development of computing technology Shows how the computer has entered almost every aspect of daily life in the 21st century

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Presents an analysis of the persistent difficulties of defining inertial mass in a noncircular manner. This book discusses the related question of whether mass is an observational or a theoretical concept. It also studies the notion of mass in special relativity.

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Essays by philosophers and scientists address conceptual issues in evolutionary biology; a new edition substantially updated, with new sections on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race.

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Draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutions. This book provides a comprehensive perspective on the transformation of scientific conceptual systems.

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An introduction to the area of condensed matter in a nutshell. This textbook covers the standard topics, including crystal structures, energy bands, phonons, optical properties, ferroelectricity, superconductivity, and magnetism.

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Take the first step toward a whole new world of statistical prowess with this delightful, easy-to-follow guide.