When Life is Linear

2015-01-07 Computers

Author : Tim Chartier
Release : 2015-01-07
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book When Life is Linear written by Tim Chartier. This book was released on 2015-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From simulating complex phenomenon on supercomputers to storing the coordinates needed in modern 3D printing, data is a huge and growing part of our world. A major tool to manipulate and study this data is linear algebra. When Life is Linear introduces concepts of matrix algebra with an emphasis on application, particularly in the fields of computer graphics and data mining. Readers will learn to make an image transparent, compress an image and rotate a 3D wireframe model. In data mining, readers will use linear algebra to read zip codes on envelopes and encrypt sensitive information. Chartier details methods behind web search, utilized by such companies as Google, and algorithms for sports ranking which have been applied to creating brackets for March Madness and predict outcomes in FIFA World Cup soccer. The book can serve as its own resource or to supplement a course on linear algebra.

Linear Algebra Done Right

1997-07-18 Mathematics

Author : Sheldon Axler
Release : 1997-07-18
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 595/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Linear Algebra Done Right written by Sheldon Axler. This book was released on 1997-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text for a second course in linear algebra, aimed at math majors and graduates, adopts a novel approach by banishing determinants to the end of the book and focusing on understanding the structure of linear operators on vector spaces. The author has taken unusual care to motivate concepts and to simplify proofs. For example, the book presents - without having defined determinants - a clean proof that every linear operator on a finite-dimensional complex vector space has an eigenvalue. The book starts by discussing vector spaces, linear independence, span, basics, and dimension. Students are introduced to inner-product spaces in the first half of the book and shortly thereafter to the finite- dimensional spectral theorem. A variety of interesting exercises in each chapter helps students understand and manipulate the objects of linear algebra. This second edition features new chapters on diagonal matrices, on linear functionals and adjoints, and on the spectral theorem; some sections, such as those on self-adjoint and normal operators, have been entirely rewritten; and hundreds of minor improvements have been made throughout the text.

Linear Mathematics

2013-07-24 Mathematics

Author : Patricia Clark Kenschaft
Release : 2013-07-24
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 835/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Linear Mathematics written by Patricia Clark Kenschaft. This book was released on 2013-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Versatile, time-tested, and widely used, this text requires only two years of high school algebra. Suitable for one-year or single-semester courses. Each chapter features sample tests with answers. 1978 edition.

Liquid Life

2019

Author : Rachel Armstrong
Release : 2019
Genre :
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Liquid Life written by Rachel Armstrong. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. It is what remains when logical explanations can no longer account for the experiences that we recognize as part of "being alive."Liquid Life references a third-millennial understanding of matter that seeks to restore the agency of the liquid soul for an ecological era, which has been banished by reductionist, "brute" materialist discourses and mechanical models of life. Offering an alternative worldview of the living realm through a "new materialist" and "liquid" study of matter, Armstrong conjures forth examples of creatures that do not obey mechanistic concepts like predictability, efficiency, and rationality. With the advent of molecular science, an increasingly persuasive ontology of liquid technologies can be identified. Through the lens of lifelike dynamic droplets, the agency for these systems exists at the interfaces between different fields of matter/energy that respond to highly local effects, with no need for a central organizing system.Liquid Life seeks an alternative partnership between humanity and the natural world. It provokes a re-invention of the languages of the living realm to open up alternative spaces for exploration, including contributor Rolf Hughes' "angelology" of language, which explores the transformative invocations of prose poetry, and Simone Ferracina's graphical notations that help shape our concepts of metabolism, upcycling, and designing with fluids. A conceptual and practical toolset for thinking and designing, liquid life reunites us with the irreducible "soul substance" of living things, which will neither be simply "solved," nor go away.

Calculus

2016-03-07 Calculus

Author : Gilbert Strang
Release : 2016-03-07
Genre : Calculus
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Book Rating : 062/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Calculus written by Gilbert Strang. This book was released on 2016-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by OpenStax College, Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in three volumes for flexibility and efficiency. Volume 2 covers integration, differential equations, sequences and series, and parametric equations and polar coordinates."--BC Campus website.

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