Introductory Statistics with R
Author: Peter Dalgaard
Edition: Second
Publisher: Springer
Pages: 364
Price: £35.99
ISBN 9780387790534
This book provides an elementary-level introduction to R, an open-source implementation of the S language. It targets both non-statistician scientists in various fields and students of statistics. The main mode of presentation is via code examples with liberal commenting of the code and the output, from the computational as well as the statistical viewpoint.
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Authors: D. Moore, G. McCabe and B. Craig
Edition: Sixth
Publisher: W.H. Freeman and Company
Pages: 709
Price: £44.99
ISBN 97814292162
With its focus on data analysis, statistical reasoning and the way statisticians actually work, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics is freed from an overload of computations so that students are able to go beyond the raw numbers to see what the data actually mean.
The Practice of Business Statistics
Authors: D. Moore, G. McCabe, W. Duckworth and L. Alwan
Edition: Second
Publisher: W. H. Freeman and Company
Pages: 859
Price: 45.99
ISBN 9781429221504
This text involves students in practical statistics-supported business decision-making from the outset. Using real data to provide a context for tackling modern business problems, the text introduces a range of core ideas early - including data production and interpretation. The usefulness of statistical concepts in contemporary business, the connections between probability and inference, and the relationship between data and decisions are emphasised.
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Authors: S. Nolan and T. Heinzen
Edition: First
Publisher: Worth
Pages: 736
Price: £39.99
ISBN 9780716750079
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences conveys the social power and the personal benefits of statistical reasoning while faithfully teaching its underlying mathematical principles. Chapter-specific narratives let students encode and retain their learning through associative memory hooks that all carry the same message: statistics has a success story to tell.
Ecological Models and Data in R
Author: Benjamin M. Bolker
Edition: First
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 408
Price: £32.95
ISBN 9780691125220
This is a practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic and Bayesian techniques to analyse their data using the programming language R.
The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences
Authors: B. Baldi and D. Moore
Edition: First
Publisher: W.H. Freeman and Company
Pages: 761
Price: 41.99
ISBN 9781429218764
Providing an introduction to the uses and applications of statistics in the life sciences with a data-analysis approach, the authors emphasise balanced content, using real data to help master statistical ideas. Data sets, examples and exercises are drawn from diverse areas of biology such as physiology, brain and behaviour, health and medicine, nutrition, ecology and microbiology.
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Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures
Author S. J. Brams
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 390
Price £16.95
ISBN 9780691133218
This book shows how social-choice and game theory could make political and social institutions more democratic by using mathematical analysis and developing new procedures. One of the procedures proposed is “approval voting”, which allows voters to vote for as many candidates as they like or consider acceptable. There is no ranking, and the candidate with the most votes wins.
STRATEGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY
Author Joel Watson
Edition Second
Publisher W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
Pages 300
Price £38.99
ISBN 9780393929348
Aimed towards advanced students in game theory, Strategy is rigorous and sophisticated in its approach. However the author presents material according to a minimalist philosophy, working with the simplest possible models and only developing theory to the extent that it can be useful for examples and applications.
An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography
Author Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher, and J.H. Silverman
Edition First
Publisher Springer
Pages 524
Price £26.50
ISBN 9780387779935
This introduction to modern cryptography emphasizes the mathematics behind the theory of public key cryptosystems and digital signature schemes. The book focuses on these key topics while developing the mathematical tools needed for the construction and security analysis of diverse cryptosystems.
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet
Author John Bryant & Chris Sangwin
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 352
Price £17.95
ISBN 9780691131184
An Introduction to the Mathematical Structure of Quantum Mechanics: A Short Course for Mathematicians
Author F. Strocchi
Edition Second
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 200
Price £26.00
ISBN 9789812835222
This book arises out of the need for Quantum Mechanics (QM) to be part of the common education of mathematics students. The mathematical structure of QM is formulated in terms of the C*-algebra of observables, which is argued on the basis of the operational definition of measurements and the duality between states and observables, for a general physical system.
The Chemistry Maths Book
Author Erich Steiner
Edition Second
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 680
Price £28.99
ISBN 978-0-19-920535-6
Topics are organized into three parts: algebra, calculus, differential equations, and expansions in series; vectors, determinants and matrices; and numerical analysis and statistics. The extensive use of examples illustrates every important concept and method in the text, and are used to demonstrate applications of the mathematics in chemistry and several basic concepts in physics.
Mathematical Techniques: An Introduction for the Engineering, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences
Author Dominic Jordan, Peter Smith
Edition Fourth
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 1008
Price £31.99
ISBN 9780199282012
Mathematical Techniques provides a complete course in mathematics, covering all the topics with which a physical sciences or engineering student should be familiar. It includes topics such as conic sections, complex numbers, linear dependence, nonlinear differential equations, stationary values, infinite integrals, vector calculus, and difference equations.
Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
Author Karl Johan Åström & Richard M. Murray
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 424
Price £26.95
ISBN 9780691135762
This book provides an introduction to the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems. It develops transfer functions through the exponential response of a system, and is accessible across a range of disciplines that utilize feedback in physical, biological, information, and economic systems.
The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups
Author Davis
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 600
Price £50.00
ISBN 9780691131382
The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups is a treatment of Coxeter groups from the viewpoint of geometric group theory. Groups generated by reflections are ubiquitous in mathematics, and there are examples of reflection groups in spherical, Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry.
Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries
Author M. Greenberg
Edition Fourth
Publisher W. H. Freeman and Company
Pages 500
Price 58.99
ISBN 9780716799481
Covering the history, development and philosophical significance of non-Euclidean geometry as well as of the rigorous foundations for it and for elementary Euclidean geometry, the first eight chapters are mostly accessible to any educated reader; the last two chapters and the two appendices contain more advanced material, such as the classification of motions and an introduction to Riemannian geometry.
Algebraic Curves over a Finite Field
Author J.W.P. Hirschfeld, G. Korchmáros & F. Torres
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 716
Price £50.00
ISBN 9780691096797
The authors provide an introduction to the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field, a subject that has applications in areas such as finite geometry and cryptology. The geometrical theory of linear series is used to find estimates for the number of rational points on a curve, zeta functions are explained, and then attention turns to more advanced results.
Hecke's Theory of Modular Forms and Dirichlet Series
Author Bruce C. Berndt
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 152
Price £26.00
ISBN 97898106355
In 1938, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Erich Hecke gave a series of lectures on his theory of correspondence between modular forms and Dirichlet series. Since then, the Hecke correspondence has remained an active feature of number theory and it is more important today than it was in 1936.
A Mathematical Bridge: An Intuitive Journey in Higher Mathematics
Author Stephen Hewson
Edition Second
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 660
Price £31.00
ISBN 9789812834089
Higher mathematics can feel like an arbitrary mass of disconnected technical definitions, symbols, theorems and methods. This book focuses on the process of discovery as much as the content, leading the reader to a clear, intuitive understanding of how and why mathematics exists in the way it does.
Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks
Author Sanjeev Goyal
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 302
Price £29.95
ISBN 9780691126500
This book provides an account of the antecedents and consequences of networks. It applies a multidisciplinary lens and considers both economic and sociological accounts of some of the dynamics he has studied.
The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
Author William Dunham
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 256
Price £11.95
ISBN 9780691136264
Dunham charts the growth and development of calculus by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late 17th century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the 20th century.
Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers
Author Avner Ash
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 312
Price £11.50
ISBN 978-0-691-13871-8
This book focuses on how mathematicians solve equations and prove theorems. It discusses rules of math and why they are just as important as those in any games one might play. The book starts with basic properties of integers and permutations and reaches current research in number theory.
Social and Economic Networks
Author Matthew O. Jackson
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 520
Price £38.95
ISBN 9780691134406
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics and mathematics.
The Hypoelliptic Laplacian and Ray-Singer Metrics
Author Jean-Michel Bismut & Gilles Lebeau
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 376
Price £26.95
ISBN 9780691137322
This book presents the analytic foundations to the theory of the hypoelliptic Laplacian. The hypoelliptic Laplacian, a second-order operator acting on the cotangent bundle of a compact manifold, is supposed to interpolate between the classical Laplacian and the geodesic flow.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Editor Timothy Gowers
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 1008
Price £60.00
ISBN 9780691118802
This book presents nearly two hundred entries that introduce basic mathematical tools and vocabulary; trace the development of modern mathematics; explain essential terms and concepts; examine core ideas in major areas of mathematics; describe the achievements of scores of famous mathematicians and explore the impact of mathematics on other disciplines.
Lectures on White Noise Functionals
Author T Hida
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 280
Price £49
ISBN 9789812560520
White noise analysis is an advanced stochastic calculus that has two main characteristics. One is the notion of generalized white noise functionals, the introduction of which is oriented by the line of advanced analysis and the other is that the white noise analysis has an aspect of infinite dimensional harmonic analysis arising from the infinite dimensional rotation group.
Analytic Solutions of Functional Equations
Author Sui Sun Cheng, Wenrong Li
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 296
Price £45.00
ISBN 97898193348
This book presents a self-contained and unified introduction to the properties of analytic functions. Based on recent research results, it provides many examples of functional equations to show how analytic solutions can be found. Analytic functions are treated here as those generated by sequences with positive radii of convergence.
Problems and Solutions in Real Analysis
Author Masayoshi Hata
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 304
Price £25.00
ISBN 97898179496
Providing a collection of more than 200 mathematical problems and their detailed solutions, which contain very useful tips and skills in real analysis, each chapter has an introduction, in which some fundamental definitions and propositions are prepared. Problems and Solutions in Real Analysis may be used as advanced exercises by undergraduate students during or after courses in calculus and linear algebra.
Topics on Stability and Periodicity in Abstract Differential Equations
Author James H Liu, Gaston M N'Guérékata, Nguyen Van Minh
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 220
Price £44.00
ISBN 9789812818232
This book presents recent methods of study on the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of abstract differential equations such as stability, exponential dichotomy, periodicity, almost periodicity, and almost automorphy of solutions. The chosen methods are described in a way that is suitable to those who have some experience with ordinary differential equations.
Differential-Algebraic Systems: Analytical Aspects and Circuit Application
Author Ricardo Riaza
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 344
Price £45.00
ISBN 97898191801
Differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) provide an essential tool for system modeling and analysis within different fields of applied sciences and engineering. This book addresses modeling issues and analytical properties of DAEs, together with some applications in electrical circuit theory.
Semi-Classical Analysis for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Author Rémi Carles
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 256
Price £37.00
ISBN 97898193126
These lecture notes review recent results on the high-frequency analysis of nonlinear Schrödinger equations in the presence of an external potential. The book consists of two relatively independent parts: WKB analysis and caustic crossing.
Physics
Galactic Dynamics
Author James Binney & Scott Tremaine
Edition Second
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 920
Price £65.00 and £35.00
ISBN 9780691130262 and 97806911309
Since it was first published in 1987, Galactic Dynamics has become one of the most cited references in astrophysics. Now this book describes the dramatic recent advances in this subject, many new topics are covered, including N-body simulation methods, black holes in stellar systems, linear stability and response theory, and galaxy formation in the cosmological context.
Let there be light: the story of light from atoms to galaxies
Author Alex Montwill, Ann Breslin
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 600
Price £23.00
ISBN 9781848163287
This book covers the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry, and universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences such as the rules of geometrical optics and even Einstein's well-known but mysterious relationship, E = mc2.
Fundamental Astronomy
Author Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kroger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner
Edition Fifth
Publisher Springer
Pages 510
Price £46.00
ISBN 9783540341437
Fundamental Astronomy is a comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. It covers the whole field of modern astronomy in a clear and concise way. It emphasises both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, and the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences.
Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology
Author Caleb A. Scharf
Edition First
Publisher University Science Books
Pages 400
Price £44.99
ISBN 9781891389559
This book offers an advanced introduction to the fields of extrasolar planets and astrobiology. It applies an advanced level of mathematics and physics, while also providing an extensive grounding in key issues of chemistry, biology and geophysics.
Classical Mechanics and Relativity
Author Harald J W Müller-Kirsten
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 576
Price £37.00
ISBN 9789812832528
This text provides a pedagogical tour through mechanics from Newton to Einstein with detailed explanations and a large number of worked examples. From the very beginning relativity is kept in mind, along with its relation to concepts of basic mechanics, such as inertia, escape velocity, Newton’s potential, Kepler motion and curvature.
Special Relativity for Beginners: A Textbook for Undergraduates
Author Jürgen Freund
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 332
Price £25.00
ISBN 97898171605
Freund offers access to the special theory of relativity. Some crucial results are derived more than once with different approaches: the Lorentz transformation in one spatial direction three times, the Doppler formula four times, the Lorentz transformation in two directions twice; also twice the unification of electric and magnetic forces, the velocity addition formula, as well as the aberration formula.
Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics
Author Charis Anastopoulos
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 432
Price £19.95
ISBN 9780691135120
Anastpolous explains the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter and the controversies surrounding them. The dichotomy between particle and wave reflects a dispute over whether the universe's most elementary building blocks are discrete or continuous in nature. Two of the earliest-known theories about matter are discussed before continuing up through the ages to modern physics.
Statistical Mechanics Made Simple
Author Daniel C. Mattis, Robert Swendsen
Edition Second
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 360
Price £25.00
ISBN 97898179090
This book illustrates through myriad examples the principles and logic used in extending the simple laws of idealized Newtonian physics and quantum physics into the real world of noise and thermal fluctuations.
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
Author Carolyne M Van Vliet
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 988
Price £42.00
ISBN 97898104788
Encompassing our current understanding of the ensemble approach to many-body physics, phase transitions and other thermal phenomena, as well as the quantum foundations of linear response theory, kinetic equations and stochastic processes, the historical methods of J. Willard Gibbs and Ludwig Boltzmann, applied to the quantum description rather than phase space, are featured.
A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science
Author Rubin H. Landau, Manuel José Páez & Cristian C. Bordeianu
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages £44.95
ISBN 9780691131375
Including new discussions of visualisation tools, wavelet analysis, molecular dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics, and treating science, applied mathematics, and computer science together, the book reveals how this knowledge base can be applied to a range of real-world problems.
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control: A Lyapunov-Based Approach
Author Wassim M. Haddad and Vijay Sekhar Chellaboina
Edition First
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 976
Price £50.00
ISBN 9780691133294
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control presents and develops an extensive treatment of stability analysis and control design of nonlinear dynamical systems, with an emphasis on Lyapunov-based methods. A complete and thorough treatment of dissipativity theory, absolute stability theory, stability of feedback systems, optimal control, disturbance rejection control, and robust control for nonlinear dynamical systems is given.
Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light
Author John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson, Joshua N. Winn and Robert D. Meade
Edition Second
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 304
Price £44.95
ISBN 9780691124568
Starting from Maxwell's equations and Fourier analysis, the authors develop the theoretical tools of photonics using principles of linear algebra and symmetry before investigating the unique phenomena that take place within photonic crystals at defect sites and surfaces, from one to three dimensions.
Quantum Hall Effects: Field Theoretical Approach and Related Topics
Author Zyun Francis Ezawa
Edition Second
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 532
Price £62.00
ISBN 97898100322
Theoretical and experimental developments have recently been made in the sphere of the quantum Hall effect. A pedagogical and self-contained discussion on monolayer and bilayer quantum Hall systems is given in a field-theoretical framework, together with an introduction to quantum field theory, anyon physics and Chern–Simons gauge theory.
Modern Many-Particle Physics: Atomic Gases, Nanostructures and Quantum Liquids
Author Enrico Lipparini
Edition Second
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 596
Price £32.00
ISBN 97898109325
This book is devoted to the description of Bosonic and Fermionic systems: metallic clusters; quantum dots, wires, rings and molecules; trapped Fermi and Bose atoms; liquid drops of Helium; electron gas in different dimensions and geometries with and without magnetic fields.
Group Theory for Physicists
Author Zhong-Qi Ma
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 512
Price £29.00
ISBN 97898171421
This textbook explains the fundamental concepts and techniques of group theory by making use of language familiar to physicists. Application methods to physics are emphasised. New materials drawn from the teaching and research experience of the author are included.
An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Author Mario Conte, William W MacKay
Edition Second
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 264
Price £29.00
ISBN 97898179618
This book provides a concise and coherent introduction to the physics of particle accelerators. Phase focusing is fully treated, together with fundamental topics like synchrotron radiation and linear and nonlinear resonances. The final chapter treats both electron and stochastic cooling, thus rounding up the treatment of phase-space shrinkage introduced in the chapter on synchrotron.
Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations
Author John Dirk Walecka
Edition First
Publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press
Pages 496
Price £35.00
ISBN 9789812812254
Our understanding of the physical world was revolutionized in the 20th century — the era of “modern physics''. This book presents the foundations and frontiers of today's physics. It focuses on the following topics: quantum mechanics; applications in atomic, nuclear, particle, and condensed-matter physics; special relativity; relativistic quantum mechanics, including the Dirac equation and Feynman diagrams; quantum fields; and general relativity.
Modern Physics
Author P. Tipler; R. Llewellyn
Edition Fifth
Publisher W. H. Freeman and Company
Pages 680
Price £44.99
ISBN 9780716775508
This book has a flexible approach to accommodate the various ways of teaching the course (both one- and two-term tracks are easily covered) and has an explanatory style, up-to-date topical coverage, and Web enhancements. Enhancements include a streamlined approach to nuclear physics, thoroughly revised and updated coverage on particle physics and astrophysics, and a review of the essential classical concepts important to students studying modern physics.
A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science
Author Rubin H. Landau, Manuel Jose Paez and Cristian C. Bordeianu
Edition First
Publisher University Presses of California, Columbia & Princeton Ltd
Pages 656
Price £40.95
ISBN 9780691131375
Computational physics is a rapidly growing subfield of computational science, in large part because computers can solve previously intractable problems or simulate natural processes that do not have analytic solutions. This text presents a broad survey of key topics in computational physics for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, including new discussions of visualization tools, wavelet analysis, molecular dynamics and computational fluid dynamics.
