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  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Financial Markets

    by Hansjoerg Albrecher, Andreas Binder, Volkmar Lautscham, Philipp Mayer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Swaps, futures, options, structured instruments - a wide range of derivative products is traded in today's financial markets. Analyzing, pricing and managing such products often requires fairly sophisticated quantitative tools and methods. This book serves as an introduction to financial mathematics with special emphasis on aspects relevant in practice. In addition to numerous illustrative ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • Black Hole Formation and Growth

    Saas-Fee Advanced Course 48. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

    by Tiziana Di Matteo, Andrew King, Neil J. Cornish ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The ultimate proofs that black holes exist have been obtained very recently thanks to the detection of gravitational waves from their coalescence and due to material orbiting at a distance of some gravitational radii imaged by optical interferometry or X-ray reverberation mapping. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews covering the gravitational wave breakthrough, our ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Improbability Principle

    Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

    by David J. Hand ...
    "Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." —Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book ReviewA Success Magazine Best Book of the YearIn The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anythi... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Introducing Game Theory

    A Graphic Guide

    by Ivan Pastine, Tuvana Pastine ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    When should you adopt an aggressive business strategy? How do we make decisions when we don't have all the information? What makes international environmental cooperation possible?Game theory is the study of how we make a decision when the outcome of our moves depends on the decisions of someone else. Economists Ivan and Tuvana Pastine explain why, in these situations, we sometimes cooperate, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democratic Reason

    Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

    by Hélène Landemore ...
    Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Why Stock Markets Crash

    Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

    by Didier Sornette, Didier Sornette ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials. In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience in these areas to propose a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Mathematics for Econometrics

    by Phoebus J. Dhrymes ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book deals with a number of mathematical topics that are of great importance in the study of classical econometrics. There is a lengthy chapter on matrix algebra, which takes the reader from the most elementary aspects to the partitioned inverses, characteristic roots and vectors, symmetric, and orthogonal and positive (semi) definite matrices. The book also covers pseudo-inverses, solutions ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Winning at Litigation through Decision Analysis

    Creating and Executing Winning Strategies in any Litigation or Dispute

    by John Celona ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies. With explanations that progress from introductory to advanced and practice problems at the end of each chapter, this is a book the reader will want to use and refer to for years to come. Practicing decision analysts, operations research and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • e-Democracy

    A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective

    Edited by David Rios Insua, Simon French ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts. Thus, there is a growing interest in areas of e-government and, more recently, e-democracy. However, most attempts in this field have just envisioned standard political approaches facilitated by technology, like e-voting or e-debating. Alternatively, we could devise a more ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision

    by Jerome R. Busemeyer, Peter D. Bruza ...
    Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the underlying mathematical structures from quantum theory provide a much better account of human thinking than traditional models. They introduce the foundations for modeling probabilistic-dynamic systems using two aspects of quantum ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Using Game Theory to Improve Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks

    by Genserik Reniers, Yulia Pavlova ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Though the game-theoretic approach has been vastly studied and utilized in relation to economics of industrial organizations, it has hardly been used to tackle safety management in multi-plant chemical industrial settings. Using Game Theory for Improving Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks presents an in-depth discussion of game-theoretic modeling which may be applied to improve cross-company ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Playful Intelligence

    Digitizing Tradition

    by Professor Henry Sussman ...
    This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD