Philip M. Morse's Books

In Honor of Philip M. Morse

By: Herman Feshbach,K. Uno Ingard

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When Philip Morse was promoted to Professor Emeritus of Physics at M.I.T. in 1969, he already had behind him at least three full professional careers--in Quantum physics, in acoustics, and in what Julius Stratton calls "the reduction of theory to numerically useful results," a general field of which Morse was a founder and for which no good term yet exists, that includes operations research, machine computation, and systems analysis. This volume contains papers in all these fields, written by Professor Morse's students and colleagues. By their presence here, they gratefully testify to the influence that Philip Morse has had on their work and, in many cases, on their lives.

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MIT Press (MA)

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0262060280

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9780262060288

Queues, Inventories and Maintenance

The Analysis of Operational Systems with Variable Demand and Supply

By: Philip McCord Morse

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Queues, Inventories and Maintenance

The Analysis of Operational Systems with Variable Demand and Supply

By: Philip McCord Morse

A seminal work by one of the founders of the science of operations research, this text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students examines general queuing problems, discusses the effect of changes of arrival and service distributions on queuing results, and describes the application of queuing theory to maintenance and inventory problems.

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230

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Courier Corporation

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0486439143

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9780486439143

Theoretical Acoustics

By: Philip McCord Morse,K. Uno Ingard

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Theoretical Acoustics

By: Philip McCord Morse,K. Uno Ingard

This volume, available for the first time in paperback, is a standard work on the physical aspects of acoustics. Starting from first principles, the authors have successfully produced a unified and thorough treatment of the subjects of generation, propagation, absorption, reflection, and scattering of compressional waves in fluids, progressing to such topics as moving sound sources, turbulence, and wave-induced vibration of structures. Material is included on viscous and thermal effects, on the acoustics of moving media, on plasma acoustics, on nonlinear effects, and on the interaction between light and sound. Problems, with answers in many cases, are given at the end of each chapter. They contain extensions to further applications, thus enhancing the reference value of the book. Many of the examples worked out in the text and in the problem solutions were not previously published. Anyone familiar with calculus and vector analysis should be able to understand the mathematical techniques used here.

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954

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Princeton University Press

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0691024014

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9780691024011

Methods of Operations Research

By: Philip M. Morse,George E. Kimball

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Methods of Operations Research

By: Philip M. Morse,George E. Kimball

Operations research originated during World War II with the military's need for a scientific method of providing executives with a quantitative decision-making basis. This text explores strategical kinematics, tactical analysis, gunnery and bombardment problems, more.

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188

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Courier Corporation

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0486154459

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9780486154459

Ordinary Differential Equations

Second Edition

By: Philip Hartman

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Ordinary Differential Equations

Second Edition

By: Philip Hartman

Covers the fundamentals of the theory of ordinary differential equations.

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643

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SIAM

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0898715105

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9780898715101

Celestial Encounters

The Origins of Chaos and Stability

By: Florin Diacu,Philip J. Holmes

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Celestial Encounters

The Origins of Chaos and Stability

By: Florin Diacu,Philip J. Holmes

Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincaré submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not before it underwent significant changes itself. "The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics" won a prize sponsored by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and the journal Acta Mathematica, but after accepting the prize, Poincaré found a serious mistake in his work. While correcting it, he discovered the phenomenon of chaos. Starting with the story of Poincaré's work, Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes trace the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics first posed in Isaac Newton's Principia in 1686. In describing how mathematical rigor was brought to bear on one of our oldest fascinations--the motions of the heavens--they introduce the people whose ideas led to the flourishing field now called nonlinear dynamics. In presenting the modern theory of dynamical systems, the models underlying much of modern science are described pictorially, using the geometrical language invented by Poincaré. More generally, the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters, politics, and circumstance play in it.

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255

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Princeton University Press

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0691221839

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9780691221830

Cross-Cultural Trade in World History

By: Philip D. Curtin

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Cross-Cultural Trade in World History

By: Philip D. Curtin

The trade between peoples of differinf cultures, from the ancient world to the commercial revolution.

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312

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Cambridge University Press

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0521269318

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9780521269315

In at the Beginnings

A Physicist's Life

By: Philip McCord Morse

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In at the Beginnings

A Physicist's Life

By: Philip McCord Morse

The autobiography of one of the most versatile of American scientists of his generation, the first to be trained largely in his own country. A scientific generalist, Morse has made significant contributions to atomic physics, quantum mechanics, plasma physics, astrophysics, acoustics, machine computation, and operations research. Philip Morse has surely been one of the most versatile of American scientists of his generation, the first to be trained largely in his own country. A scientific generalist, he has made significant contributions to atomic physics, quantum mechanics, plasma physics, astrophysics, acoustics, machine computation, and operations research. His life-long commitment to teaching, through his authorship of a series if standard-setting textbooks and through his personal guidance of unnumbered individual students, has extended this scope to include thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the methods of theoretical physics as well. Moreover, as this autobiography relates at a fast-moving pace, Morse has also been involved in the high-pressure concerns of war research, scientific administration and consultation, policy formation, the education of key groups and wider publics beyond the classroom, and the real-world utilization of scientific techniques and discoveries. For all these accomplishments, Morse writes that his experience as a scientist and as a participant in the affairs of his time "has been at the second, rather than at the top, level." It may be that this circumstance of being neat, rather than at, the top makes this autobiography more, rather than less, relevant to other and younger scientists, to those considering a life in science, and to general readers curious as to what such a life is really like. Only a miniscule few reach, say. Einsteinian levels, and their lives and work tend to be unique unto themselves; what Morse reports is truer to the experience of the great majority of the members of the scientific community. While his actual accomplishments, his range, and his eminence certainly far exceed those of a "typical" scientist, they do so more in degree than in kind. Morse's style is straightforward and nontechnical, direct, and personal. Some of the lighter moments and revealingly human incidents of his experience are recorded along with the problems and breakthroughs in the near-private world of pure science and the public worlds of policy, high-level consultation, and practical applications.

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MIT Press

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0262131242

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9780262131247

Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776

A Life Between Revolutions

By: Philip Ranlet

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Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776

A Life Between Revolutions

By: Philip Ranlet

In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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076187142X

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9780761871422

Principles and Practice of Surgery for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

By: Philip H. Gordon,Santhat Nivatvongs

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Principles and Practice of Surgery for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

By: Philip H. Gordon,Santhat Nivatvongs

Supplying lavish color illustrations that fully detail key anatomical structures and pathology, this Third Edition encompasses the complete range of diseases encountered by colorectal surgeons in day-to-day clinical practice and spans topics related to anorectal disorders, colorectal conditions, problem-oriented approaches to colorectal disease, an

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CRC Press

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1420017993

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9781420017991

Knots and Links in Three-Dimensional Flows

By: Robert W. Ghrist,Philip J. Holmes,Michael C. Sullivan

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Knots and Links in Three-Dimensional Flows

By: Robert W. Ghrist,Philip J. Holmes,Michael C. Sullivan

The closed orbits of three-dimensional flows form knots and links. This book develops the tools - template theory and symbolic dynamics - needed for studying knotted orbits. This theory is applied to the problems of understanding local and global bifurcations, as well as the embedding data of orbits in Morse-smale, Smale, and integrable Hamiltonian flows. The necesssary background theory is sketched; however, some familiarity with low-dimensional topology and differential equations is assumed.

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Springer

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354068347X

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9783540683476

Mayo Healthquest

Guide to Self-care

By: Philip T. Hagen

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Mayo Healthquest

Guide to Self-care

By: Philip T. Hagen

There are times when it's necessary to see a doctor, and times to avoid the waiting room and handle the situation at home. This guide lets you know when is the right time to do what--by providing information on more than 150 medical conditions and issues relating to health. The book helps readers manage common medical problems with techniques that can be safely done at home or work.

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Kensington Publishing Corporation

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096278656X

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9780962786563

Contributions to the Theory of Games

By: Albert William Tucker,Philip Wolfe

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Contributions to the Theory of Games

By: Albert William Tucker,Philip Wolfe

A new group of contributions to the development of this theory by leading experts in the field. The contributors include L. D. Berkovitz, L. E. Dubins, H. Everett, W. H. Fleming, D. Gale, D. Gillette, S. Karlin, J. G. Kemeny, R. Restrepo, H. E. Scarf, M. Sion, G. L. Thompson, P. Wolfe, and others.

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Princeton University Press

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0691079366

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Book's by Philip M. Morse

In Honor of Philip M. Morse

In Honor of Philip M. Morse

Queues, Inventories and Maintenance

Queues, Inventories and Maintenance

Theoretical Acoustics

Theoretical Acoustics

Methods of Operations Research

Methods of Operations Research

Ordinary Differential Equations

Ordinary Differential Equations

Celestial Encounters

Celestial Encounters

Cross-Cultural Trade in World History

Cross-Cultural Trade in World History

In at the Beginnings

In at the Beginnings

Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776

Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776

Principles and Practice of Surgery for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

Principles and Practice of Surgery for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

Knots and Links in Three-Dimensional Flows

Knots and Links in Three-Dimensional Flows

Mayo Healthquest

Mayo Healthquest

Contributions to the Theory of Games

Contributions to the Theory of Games

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