James D Stein: 5 books

Book cover of How Math Explains the World

How Math Explains the World

A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics

by James D. Stein Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book, Stein tells the stories of the mathematical thinkers who...
Book cover of Cosmic Numbers

Cosmic Numbers

The Numbers That Define Our Universe

by James D. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children and continues throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes and end up balancing checkbooks and calculating risk. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. Other numbers go...
Book cover of How Math Can Save Your Life

How Math Can Save Your Life

(And Make You Rich, Help You Find The One, and Avert Catastrophes)

by James D. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010

How to make lots of money, keep yourself safe, and even save the world-all by using a little simple math Forget the dull, boring math you learned in school. This book shows you the powerful things math can do for you, with applications no teacher ever taught you in algebra class. How can you...
Book cover of The (1+1)-Nonlinear Universe of the Parabolic Map and Combinatorics
by James D Louck, Myron L Stein*
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014

This monograph develops chaos theory from properties of the graphs inverse to the parabolic map of the interval [0, 2], where the height at the midpoint x = 1 may be viewed as a time-like parameter, which together with the x-coordinate, provide the two parameters that uniquely characterize the parabola,...
Book cover of Peace versus Justice

Peace versus Justice

Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes

by Patrick Audebert-Lasrochas, Juan Carlos M. Beltramino, Franz Cede
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
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