Topic: Scientific

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints

A ground-breaking study on how natural disasters can escalate or defuse wars, insurgencies, and other strife. Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end...
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304 pages
2023-06-13 Published
Global Shifts

Global Shifts

What global shifts in markets and power mean for the politics and governance of sustainability. In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a...
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280 pages
2023-06-20 Published
Evolvability

Evolvability

Essays on evolvability from the perspectives of quantitative and population genetics, evolutionary developmental biology, systems biology, macroevolution, and the philosophy of science. Evolvability—the capability of organisms to evolve—wasn't recognized as...
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448 pages
2023-06-27 Published
The Phoenix Complex

The Phoenix Complex

An innovative, wide-ranging consideration of the global ecological crisis and its deep philosophical and theological roots. Global crises, from melting Arctic ice to ecosystem collapse and the sixth mass extinction,...
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308 pages
2023-07-04 Published
Linear Controller Design

Linear Controller Design

The main topic of the book is closed-loop design and the computation of performance limits using convexity. The book introduces a standard framework for the control design problem and describes...
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464 pages
1991-01-01 Published
Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory

Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory

In this book the authors reduce a wide variety of problems arising in system and control theory to a handful of convex and quasiconvex optimization problems that involve linear matrix...
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203 pages
1994-01-01 Published
Convex Optimization

Convex Optimization

Convex optimization problems arise frequently in many different fields. A comprehensive introduction to the subject, this book shows in detail how such problems can be solved numerically with great efficiency....
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727 pages
2004-03-25 Published
Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra

Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra

This groundbreaking textbook combines straightforward explanations with a wealth of practical examples to offer an innovative approach to teaching linear algebra. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, it covers...
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474 pages
2018-06-07 Published
Understanding Linear Algebra

Understanding Linear Algebra

Understanding Linear Algebra is a freely available linear algebra textbook suitable for use in a first undergraduate linear algebra course. The text aims to support readers as they develop their ability...
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517 pages
2023-12-21 Published
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Gaussian processes, which provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to...
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272 pages
2006-01-10 Published
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

This leading textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates or first-year PhD students, as well as researchers...
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798 pages
2007-02-01 Published
Machine Learning with Neural Networks

Machine Learning with Neural Networks

This modern and self-contained book offers a clear and accessible introduction to the important topic of machine learning with neural networks. In addition to describing the mathematical principles of the...
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241 pages
2021-10-28 Published