What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973. Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued - counter to most current biological thinking - that complex ecosystems in themselves do...(展开全部)

"Storage and Stability," Benjamin Graham's 1937 study on supply and demand, production and consumption, and their impact on value investing, offers readers a rare and rewarding glimpse into the social theories and investment strategies of one of America's foremost financial geniuses. The first authentic reissue of this historic masterpiece, "Storage and Stability" ushers in the...(展开全部)

The ability to reason and think in a logical manner forms the basis of learning for most mathematics, computer science, philosophy and logic students. Based on the author's teaching notes at the University of Maryland and aimed at a broad audience, this text covers the fundamental topics in classical logic in an extremely clear, thorough and accurate style that is accessible t...(展开全部)

Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories - especially those in political science - are faulty. Taking insights from complexity theory as his point of departure, the author observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequenc...(展开全部)

罗伯特·杰维斯 生于1940年，1968年在加州大学伯克利分校获博士学位，1968-1974年在哈佛大学任教。现为哥伦比亚大学史蒂文森（Adlai E. Stevenson）国际政治学讲座教授，是美国国际关系学界最有影响的学者之一。杰维斯是美国科学促进会和美国艺术与科学院成员，担任过美国政治学会主席。他的著作包括《国际政治中的知觉与错误知觉》（1976年）、《核革命的意义》（1989年）、《系统效应：政治与社会生活中的复杂性》（1997年）和《新时代的美国对外政策》（2005年）等。

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional ...(展开全部)

Model theory is used in every theoretical branch of analytic philosophy: in philosophy of mathematics, in philosophy of science, in philosophy of language, in philosophical logic, and in metaphysics. But these wide-ranging uses of model theory have created a highly fragmented literature. On the one hand, many philosophically significant results are found only in mathematics tex...(展开全部)

Clearly written graduate-level text considers the Soviet ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming; efficient algorithms for network flow, matching, spanning trees, and matroids; the theory of NP-complete problems; approximation algorithms, local search heuristics for NP-complete problems, more. "Mathematicians wishing a self-contained introduction need look no further." -- "A...(展开全部)

In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information into a simple picture. Unlike computers, humans depend on insight. Based on the author’s fifteen years of teaching at MIT, Cambridge University, and Olin ...(展开全部)