Combinatorial Group Theory: Presentations of Groups in Terms of Generators and Relations

Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job

Wrox Press, 2012

The most important thing we have to tell you is the same as in the first edition: You will get as much out of this book as you put into it. If you read this book cover to cover, you will learn something, but not nearly as much as you would if you take some time trying to work through the problems before you read the answers. ...

Georg Cantor

Princeton Press, 1990

One of the greatest revolutions in mathematics occurred when Georg Cantor (1845-1918) promulgated his theory of transfinite sets. This revolution is the subject of Joseph Dauben's important studythe most thorough yet writtenof the philosopher and mathematician who was once called a "corrupter of youth" for an innovation that is now a...

Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Haney Foundation Series)

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the...

The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates

University of California Press, 2000

History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and the sophists, and set the stage for the...

Professional iOS Network Programming: Connecting the Enterprise to the iPhone and iPad

Wrox Press, 2012

AS IPHONES AND IPADS BECOME A UBIQUITOUS part of your personal and professional life, you become more and more dependent on their capability to seamlessly and fl awlessly interact with hosts across the Internet or with other phones across the room. This book provides a compilation of methods to accomplish this level of connectivity...

The Art of War for Security Managers: 10 Steps to Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

I graduated from Long Island University in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. In the years since, much of the specifi c material I learned has been forgotten in the whirlwind of family and career life. Even so, there are some important lessons I still recall. Dr. Donald Baker often told us undergraduate students that states...