Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stori...(展开全部)

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stori...(展开全部)

肯·宾默尔是一个从数学转行的经济学家，他把一生贡献给了博弈论及其在经济学、进化生物学、心理学和道德哲学中的应用。他因为参与设计为英国纳税人赚了350亿美元的电信拍卖而闻名于世，但其主要研究贡献在于议价理论及其实验检验。他是英国科学院和美国艺术与科学研究院的院士。他著有12本著作和大约90篇研究论文。他是伦敦大学学院的经济学名誉教授。

肯·宾默尔是一个从数学转行的经济学家，他把一生贡献给了博弈论及其在经济学、进化生物学、心理学和道德哲学中的应用。他因为参与设计为英国纳税人赚了350亿美元的电信拍卖而闻名于世，但其主要研究贡献在于议价理论及其实验检验。他是英国科学院和美国艺术与科学研究院的院士。他著有12本著作和大约90篇研究论文。他是伦敦大学学院的经济学名誉教授。

罗伯特•费希尔（Robert Fisher）：布鲁内尔大学的教育学教授。他曾在英国、非洲和香港等地从事教育工作20余年。此外，他还著有30余本教育学方面的专著，包括《教孩子学会思考》（Teaching Children to Think）、《教孩子学会学习》（Teaching Children to Learn）、《思考的故事》（Stories for Thinking）和《创造性对话》（Creative Dialogue）等。 更多关于孩子教育的信息，请参阅罗伯特•费希尔教授的网页：www.teachingthinking.net

罗伯特•费希尔（Robert Fisher）：布鲁内尔大学的教育学教授。他曾在英国、非洲和香港等地从事教育工作20余年。此外，他还著有30余本教育学方面的专著，包括《教孩子学会思考》（Teaching Children to Think）、《教孩子学会学习》（Teaching Children to Learn）、《思考的故事》（Stories for Thinking）和《创造性对话》（Creative Dialogue）等。 更多关于孩子教育的信息，请参阅罗伯特•费希尔教授的网页：www.teachingthinking.net

This important new text and reference for researchers and students in machine learning, game theory, statistics and information theory offers the first comprehensive treatment of the problem of predicting individual sequences. Unlike standard statistical approaches to forecasting, prediction of individual sequences does not impose any probabilistic assumption on the data-genera...(展开全部)

According to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this classic study, Caillois defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from...(展开全部)

ONAG, as the book is commonly known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential for over a quarter of a century. Originally written to define the relation between the theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games, the resulting work is a mathematically sophisticated but eminently enjoyable guide to ...(展开全部)