Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that archit...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Reprint of the 3rd Edition. Weyl was a German American mathematician who, through his widely varied contributions in mathematics, served as a link between pure mathematics and theoretical physics, in particular adding enormously to quantum mechanics and the th...(展开全部)

This classic on the general history of functions was written by one of the 20th century's best-known mathematicians. Weyl combined function theory and geometry in this high-level landmark work, forming a new branch of mathematics and the basis of the modern approach to analysis, geometry, and topology. 1955 edition.

在线阅读本书 Praise for The Volatility Surface "I′m thrilled by the appearance of Jim Gatheral′s new book The Volatility Surface. The literature on stochastic volatility is vast, but difficult to penetrate and use. Gatheral′s book, by contrast, is accessible and practical. It successfully charts a middle ground between specific examples and general models––achieving remarkable cl...(展开全部)

とある数学者の初恋を“9つの数字の2つ組”で描く表題作ほか、忽然と消息を絶った防衛戦の英雄と、言語生成アルゴリズムについての思索「Goldberg Invariant」、読者のなかに書き出し、読者から読み出す恋愛小説機関「Your Heads Only」、異なる時間軸の交点に存在する仮想世界で展開される超遠距離恋愛を活写する「Gernsback Intersection」の4篇を収めた数理的恋愛小説集。著者自身の書き下ろし“解説”を新規収録。

博士を愛せなかった数式。日本文学界の話題を独占したデビュー長篇『Ｓｅｌｆ‐Ｒｅｆｅｒｅｎｃｅ　ＥＮＧＩＮＥ』から半年―芥川賞候補の注目作家がおくる数理的恋愛小説集。

What does a Black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this previously untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a primitivist given, the author argues that Baker’s skin was central to heat...(展开全部)

Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in ...(展开全部)