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Lax-Phillips Scattering and Conservative Linear Systems: A Cuntz-Algebra Multidimensional Setting

A Cuntz-algebra Multidimensional Setting

By: Joseph A. Ball,Victor Vinnikov

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Lax-Phillips Scattering and Conservative Linear Systems: A Cuntz-Algebra Multidimensional Setting

A Cuntz-algebra Multidimensional Setting

By: Joseph A. Ball,Victor Vinnikov

The evolution operator for the Lax-Phillips scattering system is an isometric representation of the Cuntz algebra, while the nonnegative time axis for the conservative, linear system is the free semigroup on $d$ letters. This title presents a multivariable setting for Lax-Phillips scattering and for conservative, discrete-time, linear systems.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821837680

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9780821837689

Sports in the Western World

By: William Joseph Baker

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Sports in the Western World

By: William Joseph Baker

Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacle of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph, and individual achievement. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities like class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. Looking at films from almost every sporting genre--with a particular focus on movies about boxing, baseball, basketball, and football--Contesting Identities maps the complex cultural landscape depicted in American sports films and the ways in which stories about "subaltern" groups winning acceptance by the mainstream majority can serve to reinforce the values of that majority. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.

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372

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University of Illinois Press

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0252060423

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9780252060427

Baseball Hacks

Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics

By: Joseph Adler

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Baseball Hacks

Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics

By: Joseph Adler

Baseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book--one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions based not on instincts, but on probability - how a particular batter might fare against left-handedpitching, for instance. The goal of this unique book is to show fans all the baseball-related stuff that they can do for free (or close to free). Just as open source projects have made great software freely available, collaborative projects such as Retrosheet and Baseball DataBank have made great data freely available. You can use these data sources to research your favorite players, win your fantasy league, or appreciate the game of baseball even more than you do now. Baseball Hacks shows how easy it is to get data, process it, and use it to truly understand baseball. The book lists a number of sources for current and historical baseball data, and explains how to load it into a database for analysis. It then introduces several powerful statistical tools for understanding data and forecasting results. For the uninitiated baseball fan, author Joseph Adler walks readers through the core statistical categories for hitters (batting average, on-base percentage, etc.), pitchers (earned run average, strikeout-to-walk ratio, etc.), and fielders (putouts, errors, etc.). He then extrapolates upon these numbers to examine more advanced data groups like career averages, team stats, season-by-season comparisons, and more. Whether you're a mathematician, scientist, or season-ticket holder to your favorite team, Baseball Hacks is sure to have something for you. Advance praise for Baseball Hacks: "Baseball Hacks is the best book ever written for understanding and practicing baseball analytics. A must-read for baseball professionals and enthusiasts alike." -- Ari Kaplan, database consultant to the Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, and Baltimore Orioles "The game was born in the 19th century, but the passion for its analysis continues to grow into the 21st. In Baseball Hacks, Joe Adler not only demonstrates thatthe latest data-mining technologies have useful application to the study of baseball statistics, he also teaches the reader how to do the analysis himself, arming the dedicated baseball fan with tools to take his understanding of the game to a higher level." -- Mark E. Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, SportMetrika, Inc. and Baseball Analyst for the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals

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468

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491949430

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9781491949436

A New Most Excellent Dancing Master

The Journal of Joseph Lowe's Visits to Balmoral and Windsor (1852-1860) to Teach Dance to the Family of Queen Victoria

By: Joseph Lowe

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A New Most Excellent Dancing Master

The Journal of Joseph Lowe's Visits to Balmoral and Windsor (1852-1860) to Teach Dance to the Family of Queen Victoria

By: Joseph Lowe

In the mid-nineteenth century Joseph Lowe, dancing master of Edinburgh, taught at Queen Victoria's Court, in autumn at Balmoral and Christmas time at Windsor. The Journal is an account of these visits - of Queen Victoria practicing her Scotch steps for the Reel, of Princess Alice who danced a fetching Spanish solo, of Prince Alfred who was talented on the violin, of the Princess who turned her foot inwards while dancing, of the spirited Lady-in-Waiting who begged for extra lessons, of the children's chest expander exercises, and of how many trout Mr. Lowe caught when he took the Prince of Wales fishing. Concerts are held, balls last far into the night; the musical and dance life of the court is glimpsed through a myriad of Lowe's comments (always discreet), and a cheerful family life is portrayed. After the Prince Consort's untimely death, Mr. Lowe no longer attends the court. Archives at Windsor Castle reveal that two of his daughters continued to teach there for a decade but no journal of the period has been traced to the family collection which contains the original Lowe manuscript.

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Pendragon Press

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0945193300

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9780945193302

A Geometric Approach to Homology Theory

By: S. Buoncristiano,Colin Patrick Rourke,Brian Joseph Sanderson

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A Geometric Approach to Homology Theory

By: S. Buoncristiano,Colin Patrick Rourke,Brian Joseph Sanderson

The purpose of these notes is to give a geometrical treatment of generalized homology and cohomology theories. The central idea is that of a 'mock bundle', which is the geometric cocycle of a general cobordism theory, and the main new result is that any homology theory is a generalized bordism theory. The book will interest mathematicians working in both piecewise linear and algebraic topology especially homology theory as it reaches the frontiers of current research in the topic. The book is also suitable for use as a graduate course in homology theory.

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157

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Cambridge University Press

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0521209404

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9780521209403

Soccer

Steps to Success

By: Joseph A. Luxbacher

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Soccer

Steps to Success

By: Joseph A. Luxbacher

Master key techniques on the soccer field with Soccer: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide features step-by-step instruction on becoming skilled in individual techniques and team tactics. Improve your abilities in dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, defending, tackling, heading, and goalkeeping with the help of detailed descriptions and full-color photos and illustrations of all fundamental techniques. Then learn how and when to apply those skills in game situations, such as winning one-on-one matchups, attacking, and defending. More than 180 exercises and small-sided games test your readiness to progress to the next step through the use of an easy-to-follow scoring system. Become a total player able to perform a variety of skills and execute tactics consistently. One of the sport’s most popular resources, Soccer: Steps to Success has helped more than 100,000 players take their game to the next level.

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433

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Human Kinetics

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1492582859

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9781492582854

The Negotiable Golf Swing

How to Improve Your Game Without Picture-Perfect Form

By: Joseph Laurentino

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The Negotiable Golf Swing

How to Improve Your Game Without Picture-Perfect Form

By: Joseph Laurentino

The Negotiable Golf Swing will provide you with an understanding of how basic human skills are learned and how to apply them to your game, how to grasp and meld the negotiable with the nonnegotiable, which will help you build an effective golf swing, and ultimately, improve your game. This eye-opening tutorial will empower golfers from beginners to seasoned to single-digit handicap players. Many swing gurus try to convince golfers that they must have perfect form - even a model swing - in order to play better. This is simply not true, and in The Negotiable Golf Swing you won't find any one size fits all. Rather you will learn not only how a negotiable golf swing can work for you, but also why it's the best and fastest route to success.

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208

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Author's Website

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0977003922

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9780977003921

Classical Potential Theory and Its Probabilistic Counterpart

By: Joseph L. Doob

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Classical Potential Theory and Its Probabilistic Counterpart

By: Joseph L. Doob

From the reviews: "Here is a momumental work by Doob, one of the masters, in which Part 1 develops the potential theory associated with Laplace's equation and the heat equation, and Part 2 develops those parts (martingales and Brownian motion) of stochastic process theory which are closely related to Part 1". --G.E.H. Reuter in Short Book Reviews (1985)

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892

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540412069

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9783540412069

Rockets

By: Joseph A. Angelo

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Rockets

By: Joseph A. Angelo

Presents a history of rockets and rocketry that explains related scientific concepts and provides brief biographies of important individuals.

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Infobase Publishing

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143810894X

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9781438108940

War Department surgeon general's office, a Report of Surgical Cases

By: Joseph K. Barnes

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War Department surgeon general's office, a Report of Surgical Cases

By: Joseph K. Barnes

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382101122

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9783382101121

An Introduction to Transfer Entropy

Information Flow in Complex Systems

By: Terry Bossomaier,Lionel Barnett,Michael Harré,Joseph T. Lizier

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An Introduction to Transfer Entropy

Information Flow in Complex Systems

By: Terry Bossomaier,Lionel Barnett,Michael Harré,Joseph T. Lizier

This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series. After a qualitative introduction and a chapter that explains the key ideas from statistics required to understand the text, the authors then present information theory and transfer entropy in depth. A key feature of the approach is the authors' work to show the relationship between information flow and complexity. The later chapters demonstrate information transfer in canonical systems, and applications, for example in neuroscience and in finance. The book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the areas of computer science, neuroscience, physics, and engineering.

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210

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Springer

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3319432222

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9783319432229

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

By: Joseph N. Wilson,Gerhard X. Ritter

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Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

By: Joseph N. Wilson,Gerhard X. Ritter

Image algebra is a comprehensive, unifying theory of image transformations, image analysis, and image understanding. In 1996, the bestselling first edition of the Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra introduced engineers, scientists, and students to this powerful tool, its basic concepts, and its use in the concise representation

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CRC Press

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1420042386

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9781420042382

Topics in Harmonic Analysis and Ergodic Theory

December 2-4, 2005, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

By: Joseph Rosenblatt

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Topics in Harmonic Analysis and Ergodic Theory

December 2-4, 2005, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

By: Joseph Rosenblatt

There are strong connections between harmonic analysis and ergodic theory. A recent example of this interaction is the proof of the spectacular result by Terence Tao and Ben Green that the set of prime numbers contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. This text presents a series of essays on the topic.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821842358

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9780821842355

Book's by Joseph A. Ball

Lax-Phillips Scattering and Conservative Linear Systems: A Cuntz-Algebra Multidimensional Setting

Lax-Phillips Scattering and Conservative Linear Systems: A Cuntz-Algebra Multidimensional Setting

Sports in the Western World

Sports in the Western World

Baseball Hacks

Baseball Hacks

A New Most Excellent Dancing Master

A New Most Excellent Dancing Master

A Geometric Approach to Homology Theory

A Geometric Approach to Homology Theory

Soccer

Soccer

The Negotiable Golf Swing

The Negotiable Golf Swing

Classical Potential Theory and Its Probabilistic Counterpart

Classical Potential Theory and Its Probabilistic Counterpart

Rockets

Rockets

War Department surgeon general's office, a Report of Surgical Cases

War Department surgeon general's office, a Report of Surgical Cases

An Introduction to Transfer Entropy

An Introduction to Transfer Entropy

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra

Topics in Harmonic Analysis and Ergodic Theory

Topics in Harmonic Analysis and Ergodic Theory

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