A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity's struggle against randomness

Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settlingreluctantlyfor likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man's millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictableto help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and...

Schon seit den 50-er Jahren versucht man, neben rein numerischen Re- nungen auch algebraische Umformungen mit Computern zu erledigen. H- ausgekommen sind dabei kleine und grosse Computeralgebra-Systeme, in - nen teilweise Hunderte von Mann-Jahren Entwicklung und eine ungeheure mathematische Expertise stecken. Deshalb bringt es nicht nur viel, wenn man mit solch einem Programm arbeitet, sondern es lohnt sich auch hinter die Kulissen zu schauen. Das vorliegende Buch stellt deshalb einige dieser Systeme vor und zeigt an Beispielen deren Leistungsf] ahigkeit. Grundlegende Techniken, wie etwa das...

Comedy 5m, 3f, Possible Cast Expansion / Interior Sea Spray is a charming beach town, perfect for romantic getaways and cliff-side proposals. While tourists walk around with stars in their eyes, the locals take their lumps and watch their relationships fray and fizzle. Karl is a self-professed good guy who bought the little village dream for his wife, only to have her run off with the town aromatherapist. Now he's stuck with a quaint souvenir shop he never wanted, and the vengeful impulse to run it into the ground. As the local merchants scheme to drive Karl away, his bitter emporium becomes...

Meet Betty Bunny, a loveable handful nobunny can resist.

From author Michael B. Kaplan, creator of Disney's T.V. show Dog with a Blog, comes the debut picture book of the Betty Bunny series. It's a story about patience--seen through the eyes of a precocious preschooler.

Betty Bunny is the youngest in her family of rabbits and she's just discovering the important things in life, like chocolate cake. She declares, "I am going to marry chocolate cake" and takes a piece to school with her in her pocket. Mom values healthy eating and tells Betty Bunny she...