Astronomically Speaking A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics

Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics is the largest compilation of astronomy quotations published to date: it contains around 1550 quotations. There are many books of quotations, some of which have smal...

 Mathematically Speaking A Dictionary of Quotations

Mathematically Speaking has, for the first time, brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the discipline of Mathematics. Some of the quotes are profound, others are wise, ...

 The Mathematical Theory of Cosmic Strings Comic Strings in the Wire Aproximation

This series of books covers all aspects of theoretical and experimental high energy physics, cosmology and gravitation, and the interfaces between them. In recent years the fields of particle physics and astrophysics have become increasingly interdependen...

 Diode Lasers

Diode lasers use nearly microscopic chips of Gallium-Arsenide or other exotic semiconductor material to generate coherent light in a very small package. Their compact size, reliability and low cost means that they find applications in all aspects of moder...

 Structural Mechanics Graphs and matrix Methods

Professor Kaveh, in this third edition of his book, Structural Mechanics: Graph and Matrix Methods, has updated and considerably expanded the previous edition. It combines the concepts of graph theory and matrix algebra to obtain powerful tools for the ef...

 Fast Light, Slow Light and Left Handed Light

This international series includes books on all aspects of theoretical and applied optics and optoelectronics, including geometrical and wave optics, nonlinear optics, optical materials, lasers, quantum and atom optics, imaging and information processing,...

 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Fundamentals and Applications

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is the most important example of a stimulated scattering process; light scattering which occurs when the intensity of the light field itself affects the propagating medium. A phenomenon which has been known of for som...

 Evolutionary Computation 1 Basic Algorithm and Operators

This volume discusses the basic ideas which underlie the main paradigms of evolutionary algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic programming. Contents PART 1 WHY EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION? 1. Introduction to evolutionary com...

 Hall effect devices

This is the second edition of a very popular 1991 book, describing the physics and technology of semiconductor electron devices exploiting the Hall effect. These are magnetic field sensitive devices such as Hall elements, magnetoresistors and magnetotrans...

 Evolutionary Computation 2 Advanced Algorithms and Operators

This volume expands upon the basic ideas underlying evolutionary algorithms. The focus is on fitness evaluation, constraint-handling techniques, population structures, advanced techniques in evolutionary computation and implementation of evolutionary algo...