Philosophy Of Technology And Engineering Sciences
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Wolfgang Doeblin: A mathematician rediscovered $46.78 Wolfgang Doeblin, one of the great probabilists of the 20th century. However, the full measure of his mathematical stature became apparent only in 2000 when the sealed envelope containing his construction of diffusion processes in terms of a time change of Brownian motion was finally opened. This film documents scientific and human aspects of this amazing discovery and throws new light on the star… |
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Wolfgang Doeblin: A Mathematician Rediscovered $52.59 The full measure of Wolfgang Doeblinâs mathematical stature became apparent only in 2000 when the sealed envelope containing his construction of diffusion processes in terms of a time change of Brownian motion was finally opened, 60 years after it was sent to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. This film documents scientific and human aspects of this amazing discovery and throws new light on t… |
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The Art of War $5.40 CONTENTS Sun Tzu and the Concubines ………………… Frontispiece INTRODUCTION I. The Author …………………………. 1 |
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology $11.86 For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowled… |
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood $29.95 Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011: In a sense, The Information is a book about everything, from words themselves to talking drums, writing and lexicography, early attempts at an analytical engine, the telegraph and telephone, ENIAC, and the ubiquitous computers that followed. But that’s just the “History.” The “Theory” focuses on such 20th-century notables as Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiene… |