The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. It provides a detailed discussion of languages of architectural form, their specification by means of formal grammars, their interpretation, and their role in structuring design thinking.Supplemented by more than 200 original illustrations, The L...(展开全部)

亚瑟·本杰明于1989年获得约翰。霍普金斯大学数学博士学位，现任美国加州克利孟特地区哈维穆德学院数学教授。并于2000年以“高等教育杰出贡献”而被美国数学协会授予“海默奖” (Haimo Prize)。除此之外，亚瑟还是一位专业的魔术大师，经常在好莱坞著名的魔术俱乐部“魔法城堡”进行魔术表演，并在世界各地向观众表演和展示他的速算才能。在2005年，美国著名的杂志《读者文摘》称他是“美国最佳的数字能手”。

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked ...(展开全部)

I have been teaching math and physics for more than 15 years as a private tutor. My tutoring experience taught me how to explain concepts that people find difficult to understand. I've had the chance to experiment with different approaches for explaining challenging material. Fundamentally, I've learned from teaching that understanding connections between concepts is much more ...(展开全部)

Review There is a lot to really enjoy in this story and there is great energy to the writing, as well as some fine characterization. (Peter James, award-winning and no.1 bestselling crime thriller author of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series) Prepare to be murdered by this book. Dark, dangerous and intricately plotted – my heart literally pounded. I haven't been this add...(展开全部)

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperat...(展开全部)

Reading the book, I had no trouble understanding how negative visualization could be an effective antidote against "hedonic adaptation." By imagining ourselves to be homeless, for instance, we can reset our desire for a more luxurious home and once again appreciate the roof over our head that we started taking for granted shortly after moving in.

This volume presents a definitive introduction to twenty core areas of philosophical logic including classical logic, modal logic, alternative logics and close examinations of key logical concepts.