In accordance with the developments in computation, theoretical studies on numerical schemes are needed. This book studies various schemes from operator theoretical points of view. It includes chapters such as: Boundary Value Problems and FEM; Semigroup Theory and FEM; Evolution Equations and FEM; O[...]

What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? "Jazz/Not Jazz" explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institution[...]

This book considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and culture. Updated throughout, this Second Edition also considers and proposes new theories in psycholinguistics and linguistics, and introduces a new theory of grammar.[...]

Information geometry provides the mathematical sciences with a new framework of analysis. It has emerged from the investigation of the natural differential geometric structure on manifolds of probability distributions, which consists of a Riemannian metric defined by the Fisher information and a one[...]

In an electrifying moment in 1585, four Japanese youths appeared before Pope Gregory XIII, summoned to his court from the nascent Christian community in Japan to present themselves at the capital of their faith. Legendary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto follows in the boys footsteps, capturing the ar[...]

In this 2007 book, the authors treat macroeconomic models as composed of large numbers of micro-units or agents of several types and explicitly discuss stochastic dynamic and combinatorial aspects of interactions among them. In mainstream macroeconomics sound microfoundations for macroeconomics have[...]