Археология - сравнительно молодая наука. Но тем не менее именно благодаря ей человечество смогло узнать многие тайны своего прошлого. Великие археологические открытия, сделанные на протяжении последних двухсот лет, позволили приоткрыть завесу над загадкой происхождения человека, восстановить историю древнейших цивилизаций Месопотамии, Египта, Средиземноморья и Америки, познакомиться с достижениями величайших культур древнего мира. Книга рассказывает об истории самых значительных археологических открытий, о раскрытых и пока еще нераскрытых тайнах древности.

В мировой историй встречаются личности, судьбы которых остаются загадкой и поныне. Перед вами биография знаменитого графа Калиостро. Историки до сих пор не могут решить, кто он - гениальный мошенник или действительно чародей и пророк. Но в любом случае, рассказ о его необыкновенной жизни никого не оставит равнодушным.

Века сгладили острые конфликты в музыке великих мастеров прошлого. Сегодняшний поклонник искусства Баха, Генделя, Бетховена воспринимает их наследие как нечто устоявшееся и бесспорное. И все же, как ни парадоксально, до сих пор не разгаданы многие загадки старого искусства. Одна из самых увлекательных - загадка concerti grossi Генделя.

This book is mostly based on a series of notes for a primer course in electrical and computer engineering that I taught at the City College of New York School of Engineering. Each week, the class met for an hour of lecture and a three-hour computer laboratory session where students were divided into small groups of 12 to 15 students each. The students met in an informal learning community setting, a computer laboratory, where each student had the exclusive use of a PC. The small size of the groups permitted a great deal of individualized instruction, which was a key ingredient to cater successfully to the needs of students with heterogeneous high school backgrounds.

Engineers around the world depend on MATLAB for its power, usability, and outstanding graphics capabilities. Yet too often, engineering students are either left on their own to acquire the background they need to use MATLAB, or they must learn the program concurrently within an advanced course. Both of these options delay students from solving realistic design problems, especially when they do not have a text focused on applications relevant to their field and written at the appropriate level of mathematics.Ideal for use as a short-course textbook and for self-study Elementary Mathematical and Computational Tools for Electrical and Computer Engineers Using MATLAB fills that gap. Accessible after just one semester of calculus, it introduces the many practical analytical and numerical tools that are essential to success both in future studies and in professional life. Sharply focused on the needs of the electrical and computer engineering communities, the text provides a wealth of relevant exercises and design problems. Changes in MATLAB's version 6.0 are included in a special addendum.The lack of skills in fundamental quantitative tools can seriously impede progress in one's engineering studies or career. By working through this text, either in a lecture/lab environment or by themselves, readers will not only begin mastering MATLAB, but they will also hone their analytical and computational skills to a level that will help them to enjoy and succeed in subsequent electrical and computer engineering pursuits.

This important book gives an interconnected presentation of some basic ideas, concepts, results of the theory of generalized functions (first of all, in the framework of the theory of distributions) and equations of mathematical physics. A part of the material is given according to the scheme: definition - theorem - proof. This scheme is convenient for presenting results in clear and concentrated form. However, it seems reasonable to give a student the possibility not only to study a priori given definitions and proofs of theorems, but also to discover them while considering the problems involved. A series of sections serve this purpose. Moreover, a part of the material is given as exercises and problems.

Nowadays, not only tackling the phenomena of physics, but also many issues in technology, engineering and production, oftentimes require complicated mathematical processing. Recently, a CEO of an industrial plant revealed that, through application of a boundary value problem of elastic stress, he was able to save 30 percent in material. It seems that close cooperation of sci- ence with technology and production is more relevant today than ever. Many processes of production and technology can be simulated through differential equations. Knowledge of these mathematical procedures and their applica- tions is therefore not only essential in theory for the student, but also vital for the practitioner, the engineer, physicist or technologist.

In this course, we will study some mathematical models and problems associated with basic problems in computer vision and digital image processing. The mathematical models are set up with various mathematical theories, ranging from Bayesian inference approach, Markov random fields, variational calculus, scale space theory, partial differential equations, to stochastic differential equations.

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Robert J. Lang, one of the worlds foremost origami artists and scientists, presents the never-before-described mathematical and geometric principles that allow anyone to design original origami, something once restricted to an elite few. From the theoretical underpinnings to detailed step-by-step folding sequences, this book takes a modern look at the centuries-old art of origami.

В основу роману «Ім'я рози» фактично покладена історія розслідування низки злочинів, що сталися у листопаді 1327 р. в одному з італійських монастирів. Дія роману триває сім днів, уподовж яких у монастирі сталися шість загадкових вбивств. Завдання розслідування злочинів покладено на колишнього інквізитора, а радше філософа й інтелектуала, францисканського монаха Вільгельма Бескервільського, якого супроводжує його юний учень Адсон. Від імені Адсона й ведеться розповідь. Сюжет роману цілком може сприйматися як детективний, але сам автор ставиться до «кримінальної забарвленості» свого твору з певною іронією.

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