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David Poole's innovative LINEAR ALGEBRA: A MODERN INTRODUCTION, 4e
emphasizes a vectors approach and better prepares students to make
the transition from computational to theoretical mathematics.
Balancing theory and applications, the book is written in a
conversational style and combines a traditional presentation with a
focus on student-centered learning. Theoretical, computational, and
applied topics are presented in a flexible yet integrated way.
Stressing geometric understanding before computational techniques,
vectors and vector geometry are introduced early to help students
visualize concepts and develop mathematical maturity for abstract
thinking. Additionally, the book includes ample applications drawn
from a variety of disciplines, which reinforce the fact that linear
algebra is a valuable tool for modeling real-life problems.
An intelligent agent interacting with the real world will encounter
individual people, courses, test results, drugs prescriptions,
chairs, boxes, etc., and needs to reason about properties of these
individuals and relations among them as well as cope with
uncertainty. Uncertainty has been studied in probability theory and
graphical models, and relations have been studied in logic, in
particular in the predicate calculus and its extensions. This book
examines the foundations of combining logic and probability into
what are called relational probabilistic models. It introduces
representations, inference, and learning techniques for
probability, logic, and their combinations. The book focuses on two
representations in detail: Markov logic networks, a relational
extension of undirected graphical models and weighted first-order
predicate calculus formula, and Problog, a probabilistic extension
of logic programs that can also be viewed as a Turing-complete
relational extension of Bayesian networks.
Carrying the full weight of a racing family name after the death of
his father during the 2011 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been
living under the burdensome demands of fame. The story of his
career so far, with elements of his family's history and the sport
itself, is detailed in this book on one of NASCAR's most famous
drivers. The challenges that Junior has faced, and his own success
while living up to the Earnhardt name, make this an insightful
chronicle of the sport's bright young star that will appeal to any
fan of racing.
A one-stop record containing everything NASCAR fans want to know
about stock car racing, this resource is packed with anecdotes,
history, explanations of traditions, statistics, trivia, and
photos.
The stars of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series have never shone more
brightly than now. Race fans and the public know that these key
players are a major factor in NASCAR Winston Series racing and a
huge part of the reason the sport has so many fans and receives so
much national attention. Triumph Book's Drivers Series is filled
with full-color photo pictorial fan celebrations of four of the
hottest names in NASCAR Winston Cup Racing . . . and at a real
value.
In the Drivers Series books, you will read about the biggest
names on the NASCAR circuit, without whom racing might never have
reached the level of popularity and interest it currently enjoys.
The Drivers Series features Jeff Gordon, the first of the "young
guns, " who edged Dale Earnhardt to win his first Winston
Championship; Tony Stewart, who finished an amazing third place in
his 1999 rookie season; Dale Earnhardt Jr., continuing the family
tradition and just edged out for rookie of the year in 2000; and of
course one of the most famous and tragic names in racing, Dale
Earnhardt.
Written by one of the leading authorities on the NASCAR scene,
the award-winning sports staff of the Charlotte Observer, the most
knowledgeable broadsheet covering NASCAR today, the Drivers Series
books are essential reading not only for the fan in the
grandstands, but also for the serious student of the sport.
Examines the tension and contradictions between the attributes of
successful military and political struggle and those needed for
governing in the post-independence period. The focus of this book
is on the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) from its
formation in the early 1970s to its victory in 1991, and its
transformation from liberation front to ruling party and government
of independent Eritrea. North America: Ohio U Press
This introductory textbook on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is aimed
at junior/senior undergraduate and graduate level students. The
book will weave a unifying theme among the core concepts that
underlie the discipline of AI. While the text makes use of Prolog
as its primary programming language, class testers have
successfully substituted a Lisp-like pseudocode. The book
encourages the student to expore, implement and experiment with a
series of progressively richer logic-based representations that can
capture the essential features of more and more demanding tasks and
environments. The unifying theme will feature an intelligent agent
acting in its own environment. This will serve to place the core
concepts of AI in a coherent and cohesive framework, making it
easier to teach and learn from. This approach will clarify and
integrate representation and reasoning fundamentals and lead the
students from simple to complex ideas with clear motivation. The
authors have developed AI representation schemes and describe their
use for interesting and popular applications, such as natural
language vision, robotics, game playing, and expert systems. The
manuscript has been class tested in a number of different courses
in Canada, Japan, and Europe. Virtually every university and
college has an interdisciplinary course on artificial intelligence.
The enrollment in such courses is rising, as many interdisciplinary
programs, such as cognitive science, psychology, linguistics,
engineering, medicine, business and philosophy, recommend the
course.
In 1991 the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) took over
Asmara and completed the liberation of Eritrea; formal independence
came two years later after a referendum in May 1993. It was the
climax of a thirty-year struggle, though the EPLF itself was formed
only in the early 1970s. From the beginning, Eritrean nationalism
was divided. Ethiopia's appeal to a joint Christian imperial past
alienated the Muslim pastoral lowland people in the areas where
Eritrean nationalism first appeared. It was not until the early
1970s that the Christian elements of the population finally joined
the liberation struggle on a substantial scale.
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