Dieses Lehrbuch ermöglicht dem Leser einen leichten Einstieg in die Matrixrechnung. Matrizen und Vektoren bilden eine wesentliche Grundlage vieler quantitativer Modelle und Methoden sowohl in der ökonomischen Forschung als auch in der industriellen Praxis. Grundelemente der Matrixrechnung werden anschaulich erläutert und anhand ökonomischer Anwendungen vertieft. Darauf aufbauend führt das Buch in die Vektorraumtheorie und lineare Optimierung ein. Zu jedem Kapitel finden sich zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen. Die 6. Auflage wurde um ein Kapitel zur Anwendung des Simplex-Algorithmus in MS Excel  ergänzt.

Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the centuries during which they were originally produced, Jean-Christophe Mayer reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative 'moment' when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist, this book explores six crucial fields: literacy; reading and life-writing; editing Shakespeare's text; marking Shakespeare for the theatre; commonplacing; and passing judgement. Through close examination of rare material, some of which has never been published before, and covering both the marks left by readers in their books and early manuscript extracts of Shakespeare, Mayer demonstrates how the worlds of print and performance overlapped at a time when Shakespeare offered a communal text, the ownership of which was essentially undecided.

This wide-ranging collection of essays, written by leading specialists, furnishes previously unpublished evidence of France's role and importance in the early modern English literary and dramatic fields. Its chapter-length introduction offers an up-to-date critical presentation of the issues involved: representation, cultural identity, the construction of otherness, Frenchness, and the social and cultural dynamics of theater. The essays in the five sections of the book continue the debate with a series of in-depth studies touching on important critical themes such as intertextuality; old and new historicisms; language, semiotics, and nationhood; imagined geographies; and stereotypes and social satire. The book will appeal to students and specialists of Renaissance literature, to scholars working on the construction of national identity and will be required reading for anyone interested in cultural exchange or comparative literature.

L'Italia comunale e rinascimentale ha ricoperto un ruolo precursore nella formazione dell'Europa moderna, per quanto riguarda il costituirsi sia delle strutture e istituzioni europee che delle singole culture nazionali. Ancora oggi e vitale il valore fondativo delle esperienze culturali elaborate nel 'Rinascimento lungo' della storia d'Italia, in specie nell'ambito letterario e artistico, specifico della stessa identita e civilta italiana. Italienisch- und deutschsprachige Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler gehen in diesem Band gemeinsam der Frage nach, welche kulturellen Ideen Italien in Mittelalter und Renaissance als wegweisend fur Europa hervorgebracht hat und in welcher Weise die vielfaltigen literarischen und kunstlerischen Projekte aus der Ideenfabrik Italien heute noch aktuell sind.