Long regarded as a masterpiece in content and form, this work defines the concept of surface curvature and presents the important theorem stating that the "Gauss curvature" is invariant under arbitrary isometric deformation of a curved surface. This edition of Gauss's classic features a new introduction, bibliography, and notes by science historian Peter Pesic. 1902 edition.

亨特•戴维斯，英国作家、记者和播音员。戴维斯著书超过四十部，创作范围广泛，包括小说、儿童故事、旅游、社会历史和体育。戴维斯的传记作品中包括有华兹华斯、哥伦布、斯蒂文森、波特小姐等，他也是披头士唯一授权的传记作者——1968年出版的授权传记《披头士》广受好评。身为记者，他曾在《星期日泰晤士报》、《潘趣》杂志和《卫报》工作多年。

The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which, together with his nuanced intertextual readings...(展开全部)

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity. With an accessible and lively writing style, it introduces modern techniques to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject. Readers are led from the physics of flat spacetime (special relativity), through the intricacies of differenti...(展开全部)

"This book is required reading for anyone working with accelerator-based computing systems." --From the Foreword by Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory CUDA is a computing architecture designed to facilitate the development of parallel programs. In conjunction with a comprehensive software platform, the CUDA Architecture enables programmers...(展开全部)

"This book is required reading for anyone working with accelerator-based computing systems." --From the Foreword by Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory CUDA is a computing architecture designed to facilitate the development of parallel programs. In conjunction with a comprehensive software platform, the CUDA Architecture enables programmers...(展开全部)

In Hito Steyerl’s writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in. The Wretched of the Screen collects a number of Steyerl’s landmark essays from recent years in which she has steadily developed he...(展开全部)