The university’s libraries have always had too many resources to be found by readers so the value of many books has been reduced for missing prescription. Although there have already been a lot of book recommendation researches in university library, few studies have been carried out in respect of the fact how to recommend the new-come books. New books should be more valuable to be recommended,...

Consider a stack of books, containing both white and black books. Suppose that we want to sort them out, putting the white books on the right, and the black books on the left (fig. 1). This will be done by a finite sequence of elementary transpositions. In other words, if we have a stack of all black books of length a followed by a stack of all white books of length b, we are allowed to reverse...

According to 1993 statistics, some 750,000 new books are published annually in the various languages of the world. Of these, Britain publishes about 86,000, the US about 50,000 while France produces about 41,000. From the publication lists of the major countries that publish English language books, including Britain, the US, Germany, Holland, Canada and Australia (from which we order our books ...

theory, the relation of hypercomplex numbers to quadric surfaces, abelian integrals, etc. Moreover, as will be seen below, the book would have gained both in power and charm if the second part had been compressed. Part I, on the general theory of number fields (130 pages) is divided into three chapters. Of these, the first gives the definition of a number field via four postulates, the rudiment...

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...

While millions of scanned books have become available in recent years, this vast collection of data remains under-utilized. Book search is often limited to summaries or metadata, and connecting information to primary sources can be a challenge. Even though digital books provide rich historical information on all subjects, leveraging this data is difficult. To explore how we can access this hist...

Animation has always had its champions. Animators and fans have often proved eager to sing the praises of animation and especially to laud it over and above cinema. To give examples: French animation director René Laloux (2006) famously declared animation to be the true cinema, and in a humourous yet profound essay exploring the ‘evolution’ of Mickey Mouse from adult to juvenile, renowned biolo...

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This paper explores the related questions of (i) whether there is a pragmatic presumption against imprecise probabilities and (ii) how imprecise probabilities should be integrated into a normative theory of rational choice. Elga (2008) argues that one rather natural way of effecting this integration allows an agent to reject each of a series of bets that promises a positive payout. A number of ...