Cet ouvrage veut célébrer et faire découvrir au public francophone l’immense œuvre de l’Américain Martin Gardner (1914-2010). Gardner est généralement connu comme celui qui, durant 25 ans, a tenu l’……続きを見る
At a time of escalating urban disasters and sharply reduced aid budgets, humanitarian aid, long held in need of reform, has no choice but to reset.
This book argues that humanitarian aid must accomp……続きを見る
‘Probably the UK’s greatest living statistician’ Telegraph
From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty
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The Thinker’s Guide to Clinical Reasoning introduces healthcare students and professionals to the foundations of critical thinking and offers examples of applications within clinical fields. It is n……続きを見る
著者:David C. Vella
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2021年03月11日
Written in a conversational tone, this classroom-tested text introduces the fundamentals of linear programming and game theory, showing readers how to apply serious mathematics to practical real-lif……続きを見る
著者:David Lockwood
出版社: Greenleaf Book Group
発売日: 2021年11月09日
Fooled by the Winners will change the way you think about the stock market, health care, global warming, diets, lotteries, restaurants, and your siblings. It will reshape your perspective of the pas……続きを見る
Network flow theory has been used across a number of disciplines, including theoretical computer science, operations research, and discrete math, to model not only problems in the transportation of ……続きを見る
The ancient game of Go is one of the less obvious candidates for mathematical analysis. With the development of new concepts in combinatorial game theory, the authors have been able to analyze Go ga……続きを見る
Winner of the 2017 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)A relatively new area of research, adversarial risk analysis (ARA) informs decision making when the……続きを見る
For safety professionals navigating the complexities of safety practices daily, the search for a single-source guide covering diverse topics has been an ongoing quest. Now, in its fourth edition, Sa……続きを見る
William Jevons (1866 and 1871) established a ground-breaking milestone with 'A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy' for economic analysis. Jevons' work was praised as the start of the m……続きを見る
Health and safety legislation places significant responsibilities on employers and managers to protect the health and safety of their workers, but the subject area is seen as both complex and techni……続きを見る
Parabola is a mathematics magazine published by UNSW, Sydney. Among other things, each issue of Parabola has contained a collection of puzzles/problems, on various mathematical topics and at a suita……続きを見る
The Essentials of Finance for School Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Problem-Solving and Meeting Challenges is carefully authored to provide supervisory practitioners at the school building level ……続きを見る
From natural disasters to cyber-attacks to global pandemics, the modern risk environment is highly complex and challenges our fundamental understanding of risk and crisis management.
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著者:David Jay Green
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年09月16日
This Palgrave Pivot uses a simple model from game theory to explain the behavior of countries disputing ownership of resources and of small islands in the South China Sea. It argues that the rapid t……続きを見る
Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and im……続きを見る
Are you lacking confidence in your decision-making abilities? Leaders often have to make challenging decisions, such as how do we improve employee morale? How do we decrease employee turnover? What ……続きを見る
Strategic behavior in the human and social world has been increasingly recognized in theory and practice. It is well known that non-cooperative behavior could lead to suboptimal or even highly undes……続きを見る
How to write mathematical proofs, shown in fully-worked out examples.
This is a companion volume Joel Hamkins's Proof and the Art of Mathematics, providing fully worked-out solutions to all of the o……続きを見る
This book makes a significant inroad into the unexpectedly difficult question of existence of Fréchet derivatives of Lipschitz maps of Banach spaces into higher dimensional spaces. Because the quest……続きを見る
This new edition serves both as a reference guide for the experienced professional and as a preparation source for those desiring certifications. It’s an invaluable resource and a must-have addition……続きを見る
This is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5
Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world is both a tribute to the victims of past safety failures and a warning against complacency and cutting c……続きを見る
Illustrating the development of Brownian ratchets, from their foundations, to their role in the description of life at the molecular scale and in the design of artificial nano-machinery, this text w……続きを見る
Game Theory: A Modeling Approach quickly moves readers through the fundamental ideas of the subject to enable them to engage in creative modeling projects based on game theoretic concepts.
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This second edition of Lessons in Play reorganizes the presentation of the popular original text in combinatorial game theory to make it even more widely accessible. Starting with a focus on the ess……続きを見る
This is a collection of recent novel contributions in game theory from a group of prominent authors in the field. It covers Non-cooperative Games, Equilibrium Analysis, Cooperative Games and Axiomat……続きを見る
‘A joy’ Philippe Sands ‘Glorious’ David Spiegelhalter
A fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to infle……続きを見る
With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainme……続きを見る