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The new edition of this non-mathematical review of catastrophe theory contains updated results and many new or expanded topics including delayed loss of stability, shock waves,…
Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, 'The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose.' Arnold Toynbee's A Stu…
Although pseudocodes, Mathematica??, and MATLAB?? illustrate how algorithms work, designers of engineering systems write the vast majority of large computer programs in the Fortran language. Using…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on ENTERprise information systems, held Viana do Castelo, Portugal, in October 2010.…