Author: Joe Herbert
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: brain, ensures, reproduce, danger, alive, keeps, minder, protects
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 9812703950
ISBN-13: 9789812703958

Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does a role of which many of us are hardly aware, but one that has ensured, the survival of mankind. Despite famine, drought, wars, cold, infections and hostile environments, we survive as a species though not always as individuals. All this time, our brains have been coping with what fate throws at us a pro

Authors:Bin Xiong, Yee Lee Peng,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: solutions, problems, china, olympiad, mathematical
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2007-06-20
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 9812707891
ISBN-13: 9789812707895

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a competition for high school students. China has taken part in IMO twenty times since 1985 and has won the top ranking for countries thirteen times, with a multitude of golds for individual students. The 6 students China sent every year were selected from 20 to 30 students among approximately 130 students who take part in the China Mathematical Competition during the winter months. This volume comprises a collection of original problems with solutions that China used to train their Olympiad team in the years from 2003 to 2006.

Author: Peter John Burke
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: electronics, systems, topics, selected, nanowires, nanotubes
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-03-27
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9812704353
ISBN-13: 9789812704351

The field of nanotubes and nanowires is evolving at a rapid pace, with many potential applications in electronics, optics, and sensors, to name a few. In this book, various prominent researchers summarize our current understanding of these new materials systems, as well as some of these potential applications. A snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the field of nanowires and nanotubes, the contributions give an instructive mix of experimental, theoretical, and visionary material to give the reader an indication of where the field is now, and where it is going.

Author: Kerson Huang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: gauge, fields, story, nature, forces, fundamental
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-05-17
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 9812706453
ISBN-13: 9789812706454

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell’s 1860 theory of electromagnetism to the 1954 theory of Yang and Mills that underlies the Standard Model of elementary particle theory. In the course of the narration, the author introduces people and events in experiment

Author: et al Jorge A. Calvo (Editor)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: applications, life, sciences, including, theory, numerical, models, knot, physical
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2005-09
List price: $152.00
ISBN-10: 9812561870
ISBN-13: 9789812561879

The physical properties of knotted and linked configurations in space have long been of interest to mathematicians. More recently, these properties have become significant to biologists, physicists, and engineers among others. Their depth of importance and breadth of application are now widely appreciated and valuable progress continues to be made each year. This volume presents several contributions from researchers using computers to study problems that would otherwise be intractable. While computations have long been used to analyze problems, formulate conjectures, and search for special

Authors:Marc J. Schniederjans, Jamie L. Hamaker, Ashlyn M. S
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: making, methodology, decision, investment, technology, information
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-04
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 9812386955
ISBN-13: 9789812386953

From the individual to the largest organization, everyone today has to make investments in information technology. Making a good investment that will best satisfy all the necessary decision criteria requires a careful and inclusive analysis. Information Technology Investment: Decision-Making Methodology is a textbook that will provide the understanding of methodologies available to aid in this area of complex, multi-criterion decision-making. It presents a detailed, step-by-step set of procedures and methodologies that readers can use immediately to improve their IT investment decision-making.

Authors:Vladimir M. Shalaev, Audrey K. Sarychev,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: metamaterials, electrodynamics
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 981024245X
ISBN-13: 9789810242459

Light is in a sense "one-handed" when interacting with atoms of conventional materials. This is because out of the two field components of light, electric and magnetic, only the electric "hand" efficiently probes the atoms of a material, whereas the magnetic component remains relatively unused because the interaction of atoms with the magnetic field component of light is normally weak. Metamaterials, i.e. artificial materials with rationally designed properties, can enable the coupling of both of the field components of light to meta-atoms, enabling entirely new optical properties and exciting