Download or read book Limits of the Numerical written by Christopher Newfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers may seem fragile--they are, after all, frequent objects of obfuscation or outright denial--but they have also never been more influential in our society, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and shows how it can be a force for good despite its many abuses. Limits of the Numerical focuses on quantification in several contexts: the role of numerical estimates and targets in explaining and planning for climate change; the quantification of outcomes in teaching and research; and numbers representing health, the effectiveness of medical interventions, and well-being more broadly. The authors complicate our understanding of these numbers, uncovering, for example, epistemic problems with some core numbers in climate science. But their theme is less the problems revealed by case studies than the methodological issues common to them all. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interact--how the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical, institutional, and philosophical analysis.
Download or read book Limits of the Numerical written by Christopher Newfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and offers new ideas about how to harmonize quantitative with qualitative forms of knowledge. Limits of the Numerical focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health, medicine, and well-being more broadly. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interact—how the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical, institutional, and philosophical analysis. The authors show that we can use numbers to hold the powerful to account, but only when those numbers are themselves democratically accountable.
Download or read book Numerical Limits on Immigration to the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numerical Aperture Limits on Efficient Ball Lens Coupling of Laser Diodes to Single mode Fibers with Defocus to Balance Spherical Aberration written by R. Gale Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods written by Didier H. Besset and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2001 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are few books that show how to build programs of any kind. One common theme is compiler building, and there are shelves full of them. There are few others. It's an area, or a void, that needs filling. this book does a great job of showing how to build numerical analysis programs." -David N. Smith, IBM T J Watson Research Center Numerical methods naturally lend themselves to an object-oriented approach. Mathematics builds high- level ideas on top of previously described, simpler ones. Once a property is demonstrated for a given concept, it can be applied to any new concept sharing the same premise as the original one, similar to the ideas of reuse and inheritance in object-oriented (OO) methodology. Few books on numerical methods teach developers much about designing and building good code. Good computing routines are problem-specific. Insight and understanding are what is needed, rather than just recipes and black box routines. Developers need the ability to construct new programs for different applications. Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods reveals a complete OO design methodology in a clear and systematic way. Each method is presented in a consistent format, beginning with a short explanation and following with a description of the general OO architecture for the algorithm. Next, the code implementations are discussed and presented along with real-world examples that the author, an experienced software engineer, has used in a variety of commercial applications. Features: Reveals the design methodology behind the code, including design patterns where appropriate, rather than just presenting canned solutions. Implements all methods side by side in both Java and Smalltalk. This contrast can significantly enhance your understanding of the nature of OO programming languages. Provides a step-by-step pathway to new object-oriented techniques for programmers familiar with using procedural languages such as C or Fortran for numerical methods. Includes a chapter on data mining, a key application of numerical methods.
Download or read book Military Implications of the Treaty on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms and Protocol Thereto SALT II Treaty written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Engineering Models written by John R. Hauser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many books on the use of numerical methods for solving engineering problems and for modeling of engineering artifacts. In addition there are many styles of such presentations ranging from books with a major emphasis on theory to books with an emphasis on applications. The purpose of this book is hopefully to present a somewhat different approach to the use of numerical methods for - gineering applications. Engineering models are in general nonlinear models where the response of some appropriate engineering variable depends in a nonlinear manner on the - plication of some independent parameter. It is certainly true that for many types of engineering models it is sufficient to approximate the real physical world by some linear model. However, when engineering environments are pushed to - treme conditions, nonlinear effects are always encountered. It is also such - treme conditions that are of major importance in determining the reliability or failure limits of engineering systems. Hence it is essential than engineers have a toolbox of modeling techniques that can be used to model nonlinear engineering systems. Such a set of basic numerical methods is the topic of this book. For each subject area treated, nonlinear models are incorporated into the discussion from the very beginning and linear models are simply treated as special cases of more general nonlinear models. This is a basic and fundamental difference in this book from most books on numerical methods.
Download or read book Engineering Mathematics Volume III Statistical and Numerical Methods For 1st Year 2nd Semester of JNTU Hyderabad written by Iyenger T.K.V./ Gandhi, Krishna B./ Ranganatham S. & Prasad M.V.S.S.N. and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering Mathematics
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Free Boundary Problems written by VEITTAANMÄKI and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 80 participants from 16 countries attended the Conference on Numerical Methods for Free Boundary Problems, held at the University of Jyviiskylii, Finland, July 23-27, 1990. The main purpose of this conference was to provide up-to-date information on important directions of research in the field of free boundary problems and their numerical solutions. The contributions contained in this volume cover the lectures given in the conference. The invited lectures were given by H.W. Alt, V. Barbu, K-H. Hoffmann, H. Mittelmann and V. Rivkind. In his lecture H.W. Alt considered a mathematical model and existence theory for non-isothermal phase separations in binary systems. The lecture of V. Barbu was on the approximate solvability of the inverse one phase Stefan problem. K-H. Hoff mann gave an up-to-date survey of several directions in free boundary problems and listed several applications, but the material of his lecture is not included in this proceedings. H.D. Mittelmann handled the stability of thermo capillary convection in float-zone crystal growth. V. Rivkind considered numerical methods for solving coupled Navier-Stokes and Stefan equations. Besides of those invited lectures mentioned above there were 37 contributed papers presented. We shall briefly outline the topics of the contributed papers: Stefan like problems. Modelling, existence and uniqueness.
Download or read book Elements of Mathematics with numerical applications written by Franca Caliò and published by Società Editrice Esculapio. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide a sufficient mathematical background oriented towards applications in various professional fields. The authors approached this goal touching different topics, from vector geometry to differential calculus, from linear systems of equations to geometric transformations, always using a simple mathematical language, not pedantic but never superficial. This book is mainly addressed to undergraduate students with particular focus on degree courses in architecture and industrial design. In this second edition some problems have been approached through numerical techniques and the relevant software code is presented. Moreover, the readability of pictures has been improved and additional exercises are proposed.
Download or read book KWIC Index for Numerical Algebra written by Alston Scott Householder and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Numerical Approximation of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations written by B. Cockburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the texts of the four series of lectures presented by B.Cockburn, C.Johnson, C.W. Shu and E.Tadmor at a C.I.M.E. Summer School. It is aimed at providing a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of numerical methods which are nowadays used to solve nonlinear partial differential equations of hyperbolic type, developing shock discontinuities. The most effective methodologies in the framework of finite elements, finite differences, finite volumes spectral methods and kinetic methods, are addressed, in particular high-order shock capturing techniques, discontinuous Galerkin methods, adaptive techniques based upon a-posteriori error analysis.
Download or read book Explorations In Numerical Analysis Python Edition written by James V Lambers and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is intended to introduce advanced undergraduate and early-career graduate students to the field of numerical analysis. This field pertains to the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for the approximate solution of mathematical problems that arise in applications spanning science and engineering, and are not practical to solve using analytical techniques such as those taught in courses in calculus, linear algebra or differential equations.Topics covered include computer arithmetic, error analysis, solution of systems of linear equations, least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, nonlinear equations, optimization, polynomial interpolation and approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. For each problem considered, the presentation includes the derivation of solution techniques, analysis of their efficiency, accuracy and robustness, and details of their implementation, illustrated through the Python programming language.This text is suitable for a year-long sequence in numerical analysis, and can also be used for a one-semester course in numerical linear algebra.
Download or read book Numerical Methods and Statistical Techniques Using C written by Manish Goyal and published by Laxmi Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering Using Python and Simulink written by Nayef Ghasem and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerical methods are vital to the practice of chemical engineering, allowing for the solution of real-world problems. Written in a concise and practical format, this textbook introduces readers to the numerical methods required in the discipline of chemical engineering and enables them to validate their solutions using both Python and Simulink. Introduces numerical methods, followed by the solution of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations. Deals with the numerical integration of a definite function and solves initial and boundary value ordinary differential equations with different orders. Weaves in examples of various numerical methods and validates solutions to each with Python and Simulink graphical programming. Features appendices on how to use Python and Simulink. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering students, as well as practicing chemical engineers, this textbook offers a guide to the use of two of the most widely used programs in the discipline. The textbook features numerous video lectures of applications and a solutions manual for qualifying instructors.
Download or read book A Concept of Limits written by Donald W. Hight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of conceptual foundations and the practical applications of limits in mathematics, this text offers a concise introduction to the theoretical study of calculus. Many exercises with solutions. 1966 edition.
Download or read book Numerical and Experimental Studies on Small Micro Nuclear Reactors written by Yugao Ma and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future space missions and deep-sea explorations will require small/micro nuclear reactors (kWe~MWe) for power generation. Compared with conventional energy systems such as storage batteries and fossil energy, nuclear reactors are featured higher energy intensity, higher reliability, and longer lifetime. According to the coolant, the candidate small/micro nuclear reactors include the heat pipe cooled reactor, liquid metal cooled reactor, and gas-cooled reactor, most of which are still in the conceptual design stage with numerical studies and experimental research. These emerging reactors have an entirely different core structure and working principle from the existing light water reactors, which has led to an increasing need for updated simulation methods and experimental studies.
