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Estimating weights in heteroscedastic regression models by applying least squares to squared or absolute residuals / by Carroll, Raymond J.(CARDINAL)165425; Davidian, Marie.(CARDINAL)182969; Ruppert, David,1948-(CARDINAL)165426; Spiegelman, Clifford H.(Clifford Henry)(CARDINAL)182962; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Mathematical statistics.; Calibration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution / by Harkness, Deborah,1965-(CARDINAL)353616;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-329) and index.Prelude: London, 1600 : the view from somewhere -- Living on Lime street : "English" natural history and the European republic of letters -- The contest over medical authority : Valentine Russwurin and the barber-surgeons -- Educating Icarus and displaying Daedalus : mathematics and instrumentation in Elizabethan London -- "Big science" in Elizabethan London -- Clement Draper's prison notebooks : reading, writing, and doing science -- From the Jewel house to Salomon's house : Hugh Plat, Francis Bacon, and the social foundations of the scientific revolution -- Coda: Toward an ethnography of early modern science."This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, Barber-Surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters, Deborah Harkness contends, formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research." "The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in the London of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket.
Subjects: Science; Natural history; Science, Renaissance.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Understanding modern electronics [videorecording] / by Wolfson, Richard.; Teaching Company.;
Lecturer: Richard Wolfson, Middlebury collegeDVD.
Subjects: Electronics.; Electricity.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Thinking better : the art of the shortcut in math and life / by Du Sautoy, Marcus,author.(CARDINAL)339818;
"Hard work, we are often told, is the key to success. Putting in the effort, doing things the "right way," even if it's the long way. But according to Marcus du Sautoy, this common wisdom has it backwards. The key to success isn't hard work-it's shortcuts. We make the most progress when we find clever ways to do more with less. And there is no better way of finding shortcuts than math. Math is all about minimizing the amount of work you have to do in order to solve a problem while still arriving at the correct answer. In TK, du Sautoy offers a celebration of the life-changing magic of approaching problems in this way. He shows how the same pattern shortcuts that help us understand the evolution of the universe can also help restaurants minimize food waste, how analyzing slime mold patterns can improve public transit, how diagramming makes therapy more effective, and why calculus, arguably the greatest shortcut ever invented, helps make businesses more resilient to economic shocks. Of course, there are some things in life that don't have shortcuts like mastering a musical instrument. Fortunately, du Sautoy has a shortcut that can help you figure that out too. long the way, he speaks with he artists, scientists, doctors, and engineers whose voices help readers understand how they can make better use of shortcuts in their own lives. Du Sautoy is quick to point out that shortcuts aren't about being idle or unambitious. Quite the opposite, shortcuts are what make humans capable of great things, more powerful than even the most advanced artificial intelligence. Computers can analyze a vast trove of data and answer questions about it in a matter of seconds, but they can only operate within the rules they're given. A good shortcut allows us to rewrite the rules, to find a way of solving a problem that allows us to tackle a new, even bigger one. Isaac Newton, once said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Shortcuts are the ladder that helped him up."--Departure -- The pattern shortcut -- The calculated shortcut -- The language shortcut -- The geometric shortcut -- The calculus shortcut -- The data shortcut -- The probability shortcut -- the network shortcut -- The impossible shortcut.
Subjects: Informational works.; Mathematics.; Mathematics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The ants go marching / by Palin, Tim,illustrator.(CARDINAL)622152; Oblinger, Mark,composer,audio producer.(CARDINAL)620829;
Includes bibliographical references (page 24).Counting by twos is made easy in this twist on the classic song The Ants Go Marching.Ages 3-9.AD400LAD400L
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Jazz.; Children's songs.; Compact discs.; Picture books.; Sound recordings.; Songs.; Music.; Counting; Counting; Mathematics; Mathematics; Ants; Ants; Marching songs; Marching songs.; Children's songs; Children's songs.; Marches.; Ants; Counting; Mathematics; Folk songs; Songs;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Questioned documents; a study of questioned documents with an outline of methods by which the facts may be discovered and shown / by Osborn, Albert S.(Albert Sherman),1858-1946.(CARDINAL)165509;
Bibliography: pages 483-488.1. Care of questioned documents -- 2. Classes of questioned documents -- 3. Standards of comparison -- 4. Photography and questioned documents -- 5. The microscope and questioned documents -- 6. Instruments and appliances -- 7. Movements, line quality, and alignment in writing -- 8. Pen position, pen pressure, and shading -- 9. Arrangement, size, proportions, spacing, and slant in writing -- 10. Writing instruments -- 11. Systems of writing and questioned documents -- 12. Variation in genuine writing -- 13. Individual and general characteristics in writing -- 14. Variety of forms in handwriting and mathematical calculations applied to questioned handwriting -- 15. Simulated and copied forgeries -- 16. Traced forgeries -- 17. Anonymous and disputed letters -- 18. Ink and questioned documents -- 19. Paper and questioned documents -- 20. Sequence of writing as shown by crossed strokes -- 21. Writing over folds in paper -- 22. Erasures and alterations in documents -- 23. Questioned additions and interlineations -- 24. Age of documents -- 25. A questioned document case in court -- Appendix.
Subjects: Forgery.; Writing; Legal photography.; Typewriting; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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GED test 2017 : strategies, practice & review / by Van Slyke, Caren,author.(CARDINAL)740467; Kaplan Publishing,editor.(CARDINAL)350115;
Reasoning Through Language Arts -- Mathematical Reasoning -- Social Studies -- Science.The GED is a high school equivalency test that is recognized by educational institutions and employers throughout the United States and Canada. Every year, hundreds of thousands of individuals obtain GED diplomas or certificates as a first step toward academic or professional advancement. While other GED guides are designed for classroom use, Kaplan's GED Test 2017 Strategies, Practice & Review is a self-study program for the GED.
Subjects: Study guides.; GED tests; High school equivalency examinations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 11
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One little sound [sound recording] : fun with phonics and numbers / by Palmer, Hap,1942-;
Hap Palmer, vocals ; with various vocal and instrumental acc.Activities and songs which encourage learning of the alphabet, phonics and numbers. Includes instrumental versions of the songs.
Subjects: Reading; Children's songs.; Singing games; Games with music; Alphabet; Mathematical readiness; Reading readiness; Singing games.; Games with music.; Alphabet;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Cambridge history of philosophy of the scientific revolution / by Miller, David Marshall,editor.; Jalobeanu, Dana,1970-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "authorities" to grow, and alongside a monolithic "Aristotelianism" emerged any number of "-isms": Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, Skepticism, and so on. Gradually, philosophers realized that they need not need rely on authorities at all, and began to use their own reason, coupled with experience and experiment. Scholasticism and humanism were dead, and the "Age of Reason" had begun, with Descartes as its iconoclastic father (perhaps with a little help from Bacon)"--
Subjects: Science;
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The art of more : how mathematics created civilization / by Brooks, Michael,1970-author.(CARDINAL)655817;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index.Introduction: Why our skill with numbers is the greatest human achievement of all -- Arithmetic: how we founded civilization -- Geometry : how we conquered and created -- Algebra : how we got organised -- Calculus : how we engineered everything -- Logarithms : how we launched science -- Imaginary numbers : how we fired up the electric age -- Statistics : how we made everything better -- Information theory : how we created the modern era -- Conclusion: Maths is a many-splendoured thing."For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every subsequent great leap of humankind--from charting the movements of celestial bodies, to navigating the globe, to tracking the dissemination of viruses. And the trailblazing mathematicians who devoted their lives to taming numbers come to life in Brooks's telling. Here are ancient Egyptian priests, Babylonian tax officials, the Apollo astronauts, the hobbyist who cracked a mapmaking puzzle that had stumped both NASA and U.S. Geological Survey, and the MIT professor who invented the infrastructure of the online world. Their stories clearly demonstrate that the invention of mathematics is every bit as important to the human species as the discovery of fire. First page to last, The Art of More brings mathematics back into the heart of what it means to be human"--
Subjects: Mathematics and civilization.; Mathematics;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 21
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