books about: computations     books:       Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing (Prentice Hall PTR Oracle Series)10 reviews Ronald Mak Prentice Hall PTR, 2002 if (java != eCommerce) { ... As the author says, last time I looked Java still had the +, -, /, * and % mathematical operators.. though most programmers end up forgetting it lost as they are in the boring, vulgar and repetitive coding of boiler-plate "enterprise" (read "sell sell sell") applications. This book does a very good job of introducing a Java programmer to one of the most fun and interesting powers that Java can ...             Word by Word Picture Dictionary English/Polish Edition (2nd Edition) (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic ...12 reviews Bill Bliss, Steven J. Molinsky Pearson ESL, 2008 Great Word by Word Picture Dictionary! I teach an ESL class to immigrants and use this book constantly. My students like this book becuz of the pictures, conversation ideas at the bottom and translations in several languages. I've had to order books (in Spanish, Chinese, Korean) for my students who want their own copies. We love this book!             Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (Series of Books in the Mathematical ...13 reviews M. R. Garey, D. S. Johnson W. H. Freeman, 1979 A Beautiful Book on a Beautiful Subject This is among the most eloquently written books that I have ever read in my life. Highly recommended.             Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation10 reviews K. Eric Drexler John Wiley & Sons, 1992 A rare Fifth Star simply for its place in history. Finally we may play with the "building blocks of matter" we've been hearing so much about. Here is an instruction manual, detailing the Elements, and their Interactions, while at the same time suggesting possible Design Models for construcion. Curious about the subject? Start with Drexler's Engines of Creation, instead. Maybe some other collections of theoretical applications to whet your ...             The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator8 reviews Clive Maxfield, Alvin Brown Wiley-Interscience, 2005 Once again Cive does it! I am a hobbyist and have found this book invaluable. I have a Computer Science background and so have no problems with the concepts. Even if you do have problems with the concepts, the Labs are a walk-through and one can then kind of 'get it'. Very satisfied and having fun!             Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation9 reviews David S. Touretzky Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co, 1989 Excellent Tutorial This is an excellent tutorial. A good place to start before reading any of Graham's books. Although the book is now out of print, you can use the link below to download the pdf at no expense. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/             Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics Fundamentals, Components, and Processes13 reviews Clive Maxfield Newnes, 1995 Great Guide For The Electronically Perplexed I grew up watching my neighbor, a mechanic, work on cars and it helped me pick up the basics. When I would try to take apart a transistor radio and figure out how it worked I was left with an assortment of colorful bits and no clues. This book is the remedy for my total ignorance of things electronic. Just how good it is I do not know due to my lack of knowledge in the field. I reccomend it to ...             Evolutionary Computation: The Fossil Record9 reviews Wiley-IEEE Press, 1998 A rare piece of scholarship. A rare piece of scholarship by one of the leading scientists in the field. Evolutionary Computation has only recently matured to the point of being a separate discipline. The Fossil Record is a remarkable compilation of foundational research. Fogel does an excellent job of placing each work in its historical context. In many cases, he was fortunate enough to interview these pioneers of ...             Introduction to Linear Optimization (Athena Scientific Series in Optimization and Neural Computation, 6) ...10 reviews Dimitris Bertsimas, John N. Tsitsiklis Athena Scientific, 1997 Nice intuition and good coverage The best part of this book is the first half, where the foundations of linear programming are presented in a clear yet relatively rigorous fashion, accompanied by numerous intuitive geometrical explanations of the abstract general concepts. This approach, supplementing mathematics with graphical insights, works extremely well for this topic. The quality goes down somewhat, perhaps ...             Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management8 reviews Richard Jones, Rafael D Lins Wiley, 1996 Excellent book Garbage collection is a very interesting and complicated topic. To understand different garbage collection algorithms, one has to go through various research papers published over last 30 years or read the simplified descriptions presented in Java site and Bill Venners artima.com. This book does an excellent job in putting together all these algorithms in a logical order that gives us a chance to ...             The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation5 reviews Springer, 2000 Excellent book on the Physics of Quantum Information I have heard about this book when I was attending a series of lectures in Cambridge related to this topic, and one of the speakers was D. Bouwmeester. A. Eckert and A. Zeilinger are quite well known names in quantum physics, and this is assures for the high quality of the book. The book is clear in form and complete in its contents and reflects the professionality of the people involved in ...             Approximation Algorithms6 reviews Vijay V. Vazirani Springer, 2004 Very nice introduction This is a quite nice book by an author who is well-known in the field. The book is not thematic, instead it presents certain problems in each chapter along with the main approximation algorithms and correctness proofs. Yet, each new concept is well introduced with the problems. For instance, the author presents LP-based techniques on the same problem (set cover) in the second part of the book. ...             Algorithms5 reviews Robert Sedgewick Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd), 1988 My favorite introduction to algorithms Sedgewick provides a very clear and intuitive exposition of the essence of many algorithms. The book covers a breadth of topics, from sorting and searching, to computational geometry and mathematical algorithms. It is an extremely well-written book. Each algorithm has been carefully implemented in Pascal (you may also want to have a look at the editions of the book for C++ and other ...             Computability, Complexity, and Languages, Second Edition: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science ...5 reviews Martin Davis, Ron Sigal, ... Morgan Kaufmann, 1994 Pure mathematical view of Computability and Complexity This is not a common book on Computability and Complexity as Hopcroft-Ullman, Sipser or Papadimitrou. You won't find here too many words describing topics: you'll find the power and elegance of a superlative mathematical approach from one the best authors of the century in the field. Conversely, you'll find here a detailed and elegant treatment of the whole history of computational models that ...             Enumerative Combinatorics, Volume 25 reviews Richard P. Stanley Cambridge University Press, 1999 A Classic! This book is a must for anyone who likes how to count. In addition to the superb exposition of deep and important mathematics, it contains so many intriguing problems, some of them even puzzle-like. Read this book cover-to-cover or open it at a random page. Either way you would love it!             Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond (Adaptive ...8 reviews Bernhard Schlkopf, Alexander J. Smola The MIT Press, 2001 machine learning via support vector machines and kernels The authors are young researchers who did their Ph.D. research in this rapidly developing branch of pattern recognition. Because they are young and are at the state of the art in the filed the book has sevral advantages and disadvantages and what I see as a disadvantage someone else might view as an advantage. Anyway here is my view. Advantage 1: Pattern recognition is a field of many ...             Foundations of Genetic Programming6 reviews William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli Springer, 2002 Exciting New Developments in EC Theory Langdon and Poli are both internationally recognized experts in Evolutionary Computation (EC) and, in particular, Genetic Programming. They have both contributed extensively to the theoretical "foundations" of GP and hence may speak with no small degree of authority about GP theory. As a physicist working in EC I like the balance that the authors have struck between mathematical rigor and ...             Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (3rd Edition) (Art of Computer Programming ...5 reviews Donald E. Knuth Addison-Wesley Professional, 1997 State of the art reference for computer scientists This book offers a stringent treatment of random number generators and algorithms not found anywhere else. It is particularly valuable for those that deal with encryption and the analysis of cyphers. The exercises add admirably to the text. References to other books in the field are extensive. The book is written in a non-wordy, but still very readable style, making it accessible to serious ...             An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms5 reviews Robert Sedgewick, Philippe Flajolet Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995 Clear and concise This is an excellent book on the analysis of algorithms. More specifically, it is a book on the mathematics needed for the analysis of algorithms. Quite a few algorithms are presented and analyzed in great detail, but the emphasis is on the analysis techniques rather than on the algorithms. This is in contrast with Cormen,Leiserson and Rivest, or Sedgewick's own "Algorithms" series which ...             An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (Texts in Computer Science)7 reviews Ming Li, Paul Vitanyi Springer, 1997 Biggest return for the biggest investment This was the second-hardest book I ever read. Honestly, it took me years and years to get through it. I even had to buy a 2nd copy, because I kept getting frustrated and throwing the first copy across the room until it was destroyed. So yes, this book requires a substantial effort to read. But the payback!! I've gotten more return on investment from this book than from any other book I've ...              search for books applications, approximation, calculator, combinatorics, completeness, complexity, computability, computation, cryptography, electronics, enumerative, evolutionary, foundations, fundamentals, information, intractability, introduction, manufacturing, mathematical, nanosystems, np-completeness, optimization, prentice-hall, programming, regularization, scientific, seminumerical, teleportation, theoretical, unconventional books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Afro-Asian Conflicts: Changing Contours, Costs and Consequences we recommend A Beautiful Book on a Beautiful Subject leave a comment home  impressum - about us