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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, sharp, inspiring The
17th-century calculus of Newton and Leibniz was built on shaky
foundations, and it wasn't until the 18th and 19th centuries that
mathematicians—especially Bolzano, Cauchy, and
Weierstrass—began to establish a rigorous basis for the subject.
The resulting discipline is now known to mathematicians as
analysis. This book, aimed at readers with some grounding in
mathematics, describes the nascent evolution of mathematical
analysis, its development as a subject in its own right, and its
wide-ranging applications in mathematics and science, modelling
reality from acoustics to fluid dynamics, from biological systems
to quantum theory. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions
series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in
almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect
way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors
combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to
make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Summer, 1901. For days, heat has been rising. London swelters; a
long-expected storm promises to break. In Baker Street, Sherlock
Holmes is visited by a peculiar American who arrives with a warning
about a strange new kind of murderer. In the West End, Dr John
Watson is watching his wife, the actress, Genevieve, prepare for
her greatest role to date – only for her to be confronted by a
terrible ghost from the past. There are surprising connections
between these events, a web of apparent coincidence which soon
draws in others: Colonel Sebastian Moran, Mycroft Holmes, a
dangerously ambitious young politician and – waiting patiently
for the moment to finally make her move – the mysterious
organising power at the head of the underworld, the Seamstress of
Peckham Rye. CAST: Nicholas Briggs (Sherlock Holmes), Richard Earl
(Dr John Watson), Juliet Aubrey (The Seamstress), John Banks
(Colonel Sebastian Moran/Inspector Lestrade), Timothy Bentinck
(Mycroft Holmes), Lucy Briggs-Owen (Genevieve Dumont (Watson)),
Jemma Churchill (Molly Black), Tim Faulkner (Jacob Black), James
Joyce (Inspector Silas Fisher), James MacCallum (Jasper
Cranfield/Jackson), Glen McCready (Doorman/Actor-Manager/Speaker of
the House). Other parts played by members of the cast.
Holmes and Watson go head-to-head with new and old villains, and
once again solve the unsolvable, in a new adventure written by
Jonathan Barnes. Autumn 1900. The lives of Sherlock Holmes and John
Watson are in a state of change. The doctor has moved out of Baker
Street, waiting anxiously to marry his new love, the American
actress, Genevieve Dumont. Holmes has been left restless and
fretful, eager for mystery and distraction. A secret code and a
brutal murder promise to bring the two men back into each other’s
orbit. But there is more to the investigation than first appears to
be the case. Something greater seems to be at work, moving
dextrously behind the scenes: a force in the London underground
known only as The Seamstress of Peckham Rye. Cast: Nicholas Briggs
(Sherlock Holmes), Richard Earl (Dr John Watson), Lucy Briggs-Owen
(Genevieve Dumont), Mark Elstob (Joseph Drennan/Hotelier/Newspaper
Seller), India Fisher (Mrs Elizabeth Tyndall/Postmistress), James
Joyce (Inspector Silas Fisher), Anjella MacKintosh (Mrs Bridget
Culpepper/Mrs Ogilvy), Glen McCready (Bernard
Brownrigg/Tailor/Conductor/Constable/Loafer/Railway Employee).
With over 4,000 entries, this informative A to Z provides clear,
jargon-free definitions on a wide variety of mathematical terms.
Its entries cover both pure and applied mathematics, and include
key theories, concepts, methods, programmes, people, and
terminology. For this sixth edition, around 800 new terms have been
defined, expanding on the dictionary's coverage of topics such as
algebra, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, representation
theory, and statistics. Among this new material are articles such
as cardinal arithmetic, first fundamental form, Lagrange's theorem,
Navier-Stokes equations, potential, and splitting field. The
existing entries have also been revised and updated to account for
developments in the field. Numerous supplementary features
complement the text, including detailed appendices on basic
algebra, areas and volumes, trigonometric formulae, and Roman
numerals. Newly added to these sections is a historical timeline of
significant mathematicians lives and the emergence of key theorems.
There are also illustrations, graphs, and charts throughout the
text, as well as useful web links to provide access to further
reading.
How is a subway map different from other maps? What makes a knot
knotted? What makes the Moebius strip one-sided? These are
questions of topology, the mathematical study of properties
preserved by twisting or stretching objects. In the 20th century
topology became as broad and fundamental as algebra and geometry,
with important implications for science, especially physics. In
this Very Short Introduction Richard Earl gives a sense of the more
visual elements of topology (looking at surfaces) as well as
covering the formal definition of continuity. Considering some of
the eye-opening examples that led mathematicians to recognize a
need for studying topology, he pays homage to the historical
people, problems, and surprises that have propelled the growth of
this field. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
In 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in The
American Journal of Sociology, criticizing managerial theory and
evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large
corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called
for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner
structure--particularly the interaction of family ties, property,
and business leadership in the large corporation. But, despite the
subsequent blossoming of studies of intercorporate and class power,
no one else has yet done the systematic empirical analysis he
outlined. This work is thus the first to explore the full panoply
of intraclass relations--interorganizational, kinship, economic,
and political--within an actually existing dominant class.
Theoretically sensitive, methodologically precise, and historically
grounded, it aims to fill in the blank spots in our knowledge about
how "economic classes" become "social classes" and how the latter
in turn connect with other social forms. This work is a sustained
empirical analysis of Chile's dominant class. But it does more than
reveal that class's specific internal structure; it also provides a
coherent theory of the inner relations constituting any dominant
class in a highly concentrated capitalist economy, a methodological
paradigm, and an exemplary body of findings, which can closely
guide the study of other dominant classes, especially in the
"advanced" societies of the West. Originally published in 1988. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
In 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in "The
American Journal of Sociology," criticizing managerial theory and
evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large
corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called
for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner
structure--particularly the interaction of family ties, property,
and business leadership in the large corporation. But, despite the
subsequent blossoming of studies of intercorporate and class power,
no one else has yet done the systematic empirical analysis he
outlined. This work is thus the first to explore the full panoply
of intraclass relations--interorganizational, kinship, economic,
and political--within an actually existing dominant class.
Theoretically sensitive, methodologically precise, and historically
grounded, it aims to fill in the blank spots in our knowledge about
how "economic classes" become "social classes" and how the latter
in turn connect with other social forms.
This work is a sustained empirical analysis of Chile's dominant
class. But it does more than reveal that class's specific internal
structure; it also provides a coherent theory of the inner
relations constituting any dominant class in a highly concentrated
capitalist economy, a methodological paradigm, and an exemplary
body of findings, which can closely guide the study of other
dominant classes, especially in the "advanced" societies of the
West.
Originally published in 1988.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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