Provisional Agenda for the 117th Session, to be Held at the Palais Des Nations, Geneva, Starting on Tuesday, 9 March 1999 ; Provisional Agenda for the 11th Session of the Administrative Committee (AC. 1) of the Amended Agreement, to be Held at the Palais Des Nations, Geneva, on Wednesday, 10 March 1999

Provisional Agenda for the 117th Session, to be Held at the Palais Des Nations, Geneva, Starting on Tuesday, 9 March 1999 ; Provisional Agenda for the 11th Session of the Administrative Committee (AC. 1) of the Amended Agreement, to be Held at the Palais Des Nations, Geneva, on Wednesday, 10 March 1999
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN:

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United Nations Documents Index

United Nations Documents Index
Author: Dag Hammarskjöld Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN:

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How Mathematicians Think

How Mathematicians Think
Author: William Byers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-05-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691145997

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To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. Nonlogical qualities, William Byers shows, play an essential role in mathematics. Ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes can arise when ideas developed in different contexts come into contact. Uncertainties and conflicts do not impede but rather spur the development of mathematics. Creativity often means bringing apparently incompatible perspectives together as complementary aspects of a new, more subtle theory. The secret of mathematics is not to be found only in its logical structure. The creative dimensions of mathematical work have great implications for our notions of mathematical and scientific truth, and How Mathematicians Think provides a novel approach to many fundamental questions. Is mathematics objectively true? Is it discovered or invented? And is there such a thing as a "final" scientific theory? Ultimately, How Mathematicians Think shows that the nature of mathematical thinking can teach us a great deal about the human condition itself.

A History of Abstract Algebra

A History of Abstract Algebra
Author: Israel Kleiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817646841

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This book explores the history of abstract algebra. It shows how abstract algebra has arisen in attempting to solve some of these classical problems, providing a context from which the reader may gain a deeper appreciation of the mathematics involved.

The Quarterly Record

The Quarterly Record
Author: Massachusetts General Hospital. Nurses Alumnae Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1911
Genre: Nurses
ISBN:

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Mathematical Publishing

Mathematical Publishing
Author: Steven George Krantz
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821872598

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Mathematicians are expected to publish their work: in journals, conference proceedings, and books. It is vital to advancing their careers. Later, some are asked to become editors. However, most mathematicians are trained to do mathematics, not to publish it. But here, finally, for graduate students and researchers interested in publishing their work, Steven G. Krantz, the respected author of several "how-to" guides in mathematics, shares his experience as an author, editor, editorial board member, and independent publisher. This new volume is an informative, comprehensive guidebook to publishing mathematics. Krantz describes both the general setting of mathematical publishing and the specifics about all the various publishing situations mathematicians may encounter. As with his other books, Krantz's style is engaging and frank. He gives advice on how to get your book published, how to get organized as an editor, what to do when things go wrong, and much more. He describes the people, the language (including a glossary), and the process of publishing both books and journals. Steven G. Krantz is an accomplished mathematician and an award-winning author. He has published more than 130 research articles and 45 books. He has worked as an editor of several book series, research journals, and for the Notices of the AMS. He is also the founder of the Journal of Geometric Analysis. Other titles available from the AMS by Steven G. Krantz are How to Teach Mathematics, A Primer of Mathematical Writing, A Mathematician's Survival Guide, and Techniques of Problem Solving.

Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends

Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends
Author: Max Evans
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826335888

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Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Max Evans, one of Peckinpah’s best friends, experienced the director’s mercurial character and personal demons firsthand. In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah’s abusive behavior—sometimes directed at Evans himself. Evans’s stories—most previously unpublished—provide a uniquely intimate look at Peckinpah, their famous friends (including Lee Marvin, Brian Keith, Joel McCrea, and James Coburn), and the business of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

"Eradicating Ideological Viruses"

Author: Maya Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2018
Genre: China
ISBN: 9781623136567

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"This report presents new evidence of the Chinese government's mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment, and the increasingly pervasive controls on daily life. Throughout the region, the Turkic Muslim population of 13 million is subjected to forced political indoctrination, collective punishment, restrictions on movement and communications, heightened religious restrictions, and mass surveillance in violation of international human rights law."--Publisher website, viewed September 19, 2018.

Nonplussed!

Nonplussed!
Author: Julian Havil
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1400837383

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Math—the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions—usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes—conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing sports team can become a winning one by adding worse players than its opponents? Or that the thirteenth of the month is more likely to be a Friday than any other day? Or that cones can roll unaided uphill? In Nonplussed!—a delightfully eclectic collection of paradoxes from many different areas of math—popular-math writer Julian Havil reveals the math that shows the truth of these and many other unbelievable ideas. Nonplussed! pays special attention to problems from probability and statistics, areas where intuition can easily be wrong. These problems include the vagaries of tennis scoring, what can be deduced from tossing a needle, and disadvantageous games that form winning combinations. Other chapters address everything from the historically important Torricelli's Trumpet to the mind-warping implications of objects that live on high dimensions. Readers learn about the colorful history and people associated with many of these problems in addition to their mathematical proofs. Nonplussed! will appeal to anyone with a calculus background who enjoys popular math books or puzzles.