Feynman Lectures on Computation

When, in 1984-86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers...

 Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics

Landmark lectures (1909) by discoverer of quantum theory present revolutionary developments occasioned by application of quantum hypothesis to blackbody radiation. Also, how statistical mechanics transformed understanding of chemical physics; principle of...

 Phenomenology and Logic The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism

Collected here for the first time, this series of lectures delivered by Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 illustrates a pivotal time in Lonergan's intellectual history, marking both the transition from the faculty psychology still present in his work Ins...

 Applied semantics Advanced lectures

This book presents nine thoroughly reviewed and revised advanced lectures given at a graduate-level summer school in Caminha, Portugal, in September 2000.The presentations are devoted to recent developments in programming language research, both in semant...

 Generic programming Advanced lectures - Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 2793

Generic programming attempts to make programming more efficient by making it more general. This book is devoted to a novel form of genericity in programs, based on parameterizing programs by the structure of the data they manipulate. The book presents the...