Authors:Rosario N. Mantegna, H. Eugene Stanley,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: finance, complexity, correlations, econophysics, introduction
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521039878
ISBN-13: 9780521039871

Statistical physics concepts such as stochastic dynamics, short- and long-range correlations, self-similarity and scaling, permit an understanding of the global behavior of economic systems without first having to work out a detailed microscopic description of the system. This pioneering text explores the use of these concepts in the description of financial systems, the dynamic new specialty of econophysics. The authors illustrate the scaling concepts used in probability theory, critical phenomena, and fully-developed turbulent fluids and apply them to financial time series. They also present

Authors:Rosario N. Mantegna, H. Eugene Stanley,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: finance, complexity, correlations, econophysics, introduction
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $83.99
ISBN-10: 0521620082
ISBN-13: 9780521620086

Statistical physics concepts such as stochastic dynamics, short- and long-range correlations, self-similarity and scaling, permit an understanding of the global behavior of economic systems without first having to work out a detailed microscopic description of the system. This pioneering text explores the use of these concepts in the description of financial systems, the dynamic new specialty of econophysics. The authors illustrate the scaling concepts used in probability theory, critical phenomena, and fully-developed turbulent fluids and apply them to financial time series. They also present

Author: David Sharpe
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: factorization, rings
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1987-08-28
List price: $30.99
ISBN-10: 0521337186
ISBN-13: 9780521337182

This textbook is an introduction to the concept of factorization and its application to problems in algebra and number theory. With the minimum of prerequisites, the reader is introduced to the notion of rings, fields, prime elements and unique factorization. The author shows how concepts can be applied to a variety of examples such as factorizing polynomials, finding determinants of matrices and Fermat’s ’two-squares theorem’. Based on an undergraduate course given at the University of Sheffield, Dr Sharpe has included numerous examples which demonstrate how frequently these

Author: John Algeo
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: english, patterns, studies, grammar, language, word, american, handbook, british
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2006-08-21
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521371376
ISBN-13: 9780521371377

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After ’thank you’, who says Not at all and who says You’re welcome? •Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn’t? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and

Author: K. F. Riley
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: students, physics, engineering, treatment, informal, methods, physical, sciences, mathematical
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1974-10-25
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0521098394
ISBN-13: 9780521098397

Many students of physical and applied science and of engineering find difficulty in copying with the mathematics necessary for the quantitative manipulation of the physical concepts they are atudying in their main course. This book is designed to help first and second year under-graduates at universities and polytechnics, as well as technical college students, to find their feet in the important mathematical methods they will need. Throughout the text the physical relevance of the mathematics is constantly stressed and, where it is helpful, use has been made of pictorial mathematics and qualit

Authors:K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson, S. J. Bence,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: comprehensive, guide, engineering, physics, methods, mathematical
Number of Pages: 1362
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0521861535
ISBN-13: 9780521861533

The third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics and many worked examples, it contains over 800 exercises. New stand-alone chapters give a systematic account of the ’special functions’ of physical science, cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables, and give an introduction to quantum operators. Further tabulations, of relevance in statistics and numerical integration, have been added.

Author: Gary S. Field
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: development, inequality, poverty
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1980-12-31
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521298520
ISBN-13: 9780521298520

Economists have traditionally concentrated on aggregate economic growth to measure a country’s development, but previously they have also considered income distribution performance. In this book Gary Fields reverses conventional approaches by using income distribution as the primary indicator. He examines what is known about the distribution of income and poverty, inequality, and development. He explores the main causes of poverty and inequality and the extent to which they have been reduced by individual countries in the course of their economic growth. Recognizing that conclusions vary