Traditional game theory has been successful at developing strategy in games of incomplete information: when one player knows something that the other does not. But it has little to say about games of complete information, for example, tic-tac-toe, solitaire and hex. The main challenge of combinatorial game theory is to handle combinatorial chaos, where brute force study is impr...(展开全部)

杰夫里•迪弗 一九五〇年出生于芝加哥，十一岁时写出了他的第一本小说，从此笔耕不辍。迪弗毕业于密苏里大学新闻系，后进入福德汉姆法学院研修法律。在法律界实践了一段时间后，他在华尔街一家大律师事务所开始了律师生涯。他兴趣广泛，曾自己写歌唱歌，进行巡演，也曾当过杂志社记者。与此同时， 他开始发展自己真正的兴趣：写悬疑小说。一九九〇年起，迪弗成为一名全职作家。 迄今为止，迪弗共获得六次 MWA（美国推理小说作家协会）的爱伦•坡奖提名、一次尼禄•沃尔夫奖、一次安东尼奖、三次埃勒里•奎因最佳短篇小说读者奖。迪弗的小说被翻译成三十五种 语言，多次登上世界各地的畅销书排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼图》在内，他有三部作品被搬上银幕，同时他也为享誉世界的詹姆斯•邦德系列创作了最新官方小说 《自由裁决》。 迪弗的作品素以悬念重重、不断反转的情节著称，常常在小说的结尾推翻，或者多次...(展开全部)

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She...(展开全部)

Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat, is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists. But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there's more to the attacks than ...(展开全部)

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance career of making movies herself. Unfortunately her first attempt - within the hallowed walls of the XXX Velvet Venus Theatre - was une...(展开全部)

The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN. Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mothe...(展开全部)

The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN. Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mothe...(展开全部)

维多利亚•希斯洛普（Victoria Hislop） 英国著名作家。早期在《星期日电讯报》、《每日电讯报》、《妇女与家庭》等开设专栏，以优美温婉的文笔和清新感人的故事享有盛誉，被称为“没有著作的著名作家”。 2006年，长篇处女座《岛》甫一出版，即力压《达•芬奇密码》、《哈利•波特》等，登上英国各大畅销书排行榜第一名。2008年，《回归》出版，荣膺英国年度第一畅销小说。 2011年，出版《线》。

The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN. Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mothe...(展开全部)

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetery... Seemingly random facts linked to one man...Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tuc...(展开全部)