Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra

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This third edition of the successful outline in linear algebra--which sold more than 400,000 copies in its past two editions--has been thoroughly updated to increase its applicability to the fields in which linear algebra is now essential: computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, and quantitative analysis. Revised coverage includes new problems relevant to computer science and a revised chapter on linear equations.

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Linear Algebra.......2007-09-25

This is the Higher level Linear Algebra book that covers the entire topic range. Helpful.

Excellent summary.......2007-05-03

I wanted to brush up on Eigenvalues for a compression algorithm and this was the perfect way to efficienctly recall everything from college. Very useful and succinct.

excellent detail.......2007-03-14

this text is very user friendly. the sample problems are completely worked out, so there is no guessing where the solution comes from. it's a great review book, and very easy to understand for a first time learner of linear algebra. although, i did find a few typos and insignificant errors. for example, when asked to find a parametric representation of the line passing through the point p(4,-2,3,1) in the direction of a vector u=[2,5,-7,8] , the equation for x2 is mistyped as x2=-2+2t. (2t where 5t should be)

Linear Algebra Review.......2007-01-04

I have found it to be an excellent addition to my library.

What a great help..........2006-11-15

I found the book to be a great asset in getting re-acquainted with Linear Algebra and vector calculus basics. Lots of example problems with solutions and some to work on your own.

Relativity, Gravitation, and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction (Oxford Master Series in Physics)

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This book is a gem
Excellent Material to begin with and test yourself.

Relativity, Gravitation, and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction (Oxford Master Series in Physics)
Ta-Pei Cheng
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198529570

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Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity in the formalism of Minkowski's four-dimensional space-time, the principle of equivalence, Riemannian geometry and tensor analysis, Einstein's field equation and cosmology. The author presents the subject from the very beginning with an emphasis on physical examples and simple applications without the full tensor apparatus. One first learns how to describe curved spacetime. At this mathematically more accessible level, the reader can already study the many interesting phenomena such as gravitational lensing, precession of Mercury's perihelion, black holes, as well as cosmology. The full tensor formulation is presented later, when the Einstein equation is solved for a few symmetric cases. Many modern topics in cosmology are discussed in this book: from inflation and cosmic microwave anisotropy to the "dark energy" that propels an accelerating universe. Mathematical accessibility, together with the various pedagogical devices (e.g., worked-out solutions of chapter-end problems), make it practical for interested readers to use the book to study general relativity, gravitation and cosmology on their own.

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This book is a gem.......2007-07-06

Intermediate level, with clear presentation, lots of graphics and exercises, ideal for self-study. In one word, excellent.

Excellent Material to begin with and test yourself........2005-02-25

I'm a second year astrophysics student from Ireland.
Recently I've tried to learn the Mathematics of General Relativity in detail, outside of my course and have bought numerous books in the process.

In my opinion this book and "A First Course in General Relativity by Bernard F. Schutz" are perfect complementary texts to learn the main basis of General Relativity on your own.

The author has provided an unbelievable amount of questions and not a single one of them is pointless exercise.

The book is Divided into three sections:

Part 1: Metric description of Space-Time
Very well written intro to General Relativity which delves into Black Holes and Mercury's Orbit, without the full on Field Equation and Tensors.

Part 2: Cosmology
Still keeping to the metric description of space-time, cosmology is introduced. The mathematics of concepts like the closed and open universes are explained really well.

Part 3: Full Tensor Formulism
I was able to learn Tensors from this, using Chapter 3 from Schutz's book as a companion.

The questions at the end of each chapter really test your knowledge and after reading this you will be able to manipulate the field equation for simple cases and move onto more advanced books if you wish.

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Cute, but not his best
Rucker's best novel -- wonderfully bizarre. 5+ stars
Michel Gondry's adaptation...
I so loved it,I pardoned Rudy for his homophobia
It starts off ok, but its ending is good enough for anyone.

Master of Space and Time
Rudy Rucker
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560257032

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The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science and magic.

From a voyage to a mirror-image world where sluglike parasites make slaves of humanity, to trees and bushes that grow fries and pork chops, to a rain of fish, author Rudy Rucker—two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award—takes readers on the ultimate joyride. But once the gluons at the core of Harry's creation run out ... disaster looms for Harry and his friends.

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Cute, but not his best.......2006-07-04

I love Rucker's work... but this was not his best. This novel involves people making 'wishes.' And the wishes really aren't thought through very well, even when the novel suggests they are. This is obviously one of Rudy's earlier works... its fun and enjoyable, but he has produced much better.

Rucker's best novel -- wonderfully bizarre. 5+ stars.......2006-01-03

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"Master of Space
& Time" (1985) is still my favorite Rucker novel,
in which the tale of three wishes granted is explored via quantum
mechanics, with wonderfully bizarre results. The apotheosis of Harry
Gerber... I've read MST at least three times, & laughed aloud each time. One never knows
what someone else's taste in humor might be, but I've given away at least half-a-dozen
copies of MST over the years, and never heard a complaint. I'm very glad to see it back in print.

Happy reading--
Peter D. Tillman

Michel Gondry's adaptation..........2004-09-16

Any chance of this book actually being reprinted now that it is being adapted as the next film by the brilliant Michel Gondry? I'd like to read it, but I don't want to shell out twenty-five bucks for a paperback when I know the film will be brilliant anyway.

I so loved it,I pardoned Rudy for his homophobia.......2000-01-04

Holy timespace freakingbody nineteeneightyfour polymirrored squornshellously rambunctiously resolved by tiny pragmatic iamthewalrousness sumptiously quarkrainbowish qwertyism! Hoopy!

It starts off ok, but its ending is good enough for anyone........1999-01-26

I started it not liking it all that much, especially because of some of the flagrant scientific mistakes often inherent of sci-fi. That changed pretty quickly, though. I had to read it in one day. I give it the stars I give it because it is one of the few books I read without ever looking at the page number. I didn't give it 5 stars because of the tongue-in-cheek forshadowing of the wish that the main character would make that almost ruins his life. I won't say what it was so I don't spoil it, but it is so obvious, I felt like screaming. That is the one thing that almost made me put the book down. I was afraid it would turn into a sappy story about the immoral nature of sexism and that we should all get along, la la la la la. He makes the wish subtle in the chapters before, but then he goes ahead and says it so flatly a chapter or 2 before it happens, the audience isn't in suspense; suspense involves some level of uncertainty. No, we know what he will wish for, and he even aggravates the reader by posing a rhetorical wish to himself, "I wish I had a wish for myself" even though the audience knows what it is.

Enough of the bad stuff. I liked this book's end. Should I say it again? I LIKED THIS BOOK'S END. It is a rare breed of endings. One of the few endings to books or movies or stories of any sort where I am satisfied; where I don't think, "and then what happened?" If you read this book for anything, read it for the ending to it.

Well, if you haven't read any other reviews of the book before mine, you probably figured out it's about making wishes. Specifically, it's a whimsical idea that one may alter quantum uncertainty in a controlled manner so as to give one powers limited only by one's imagination and prejudices about the process. Here's the thing; protons and neutrons are composed of quarks; elementary superstrings that are held together by a sort of particle physicists have dubbed as a gluon. It is both a "particle" and a force holding the nucleons together. Like wave-paricle light. It is the binding nuclear force. Anyway, the idea is that if this "particle" could be seperated from the quarks, then it would be almost non-descript matter. Somehow, two scientists find a way to grind up gluons into matter totally without form, so without form it doesn't have the most fundamental properties normal matter has, so those can be programmed into it, in order to make quantum uncertainty 10^35 times greater incide the brain of the recipient of the wish machine. Of course, if you concentrate more than the planck mass into a size less than the Planck length, it becomes a black hole, but that's not important. Maybe it redefines mass as well. Anyway, this makes everything inside a meter of the person's brain undefined, and would then give him god like powers.

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In 1965, Vera Rubin was the first woman permitted to observe at Palomar Observatory. In the intervening years, she has become one of the world's finest and most respected astronomers. This particular collection of essays is compiled from work written over the past 15 years and deals with a variety of subjects in astronomy and astrophysics, specifically galaxies and dark matter. The book also contains biographical sketches of astronomers who have been colleagues and friends, providing a stimulating view of a woman in science. About the Author Since 1965 Vera Rubin has been a staff member at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Rubin has authored nearly 200 papers on the structure of our galaxy, motions within other galaxies, and large scale motions in the universe. She has been a distinguished visiting astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory in Chile; a Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; a President's Distinguished Visitor at Vassar College; and a Beatrice Tinsley visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

Master of Space and Time: Library Edition

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Painful
All over the place

Master of Space and Time: Library Edition
Rudy V. B. Rucker
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Painful.......2007-09-24

I don't know what book those other people were reading, when they gave this five stars. What bothered me about this book. Short list:
1) Bigotry. I'd obviously prefer people don't flap their bigotries in the wind, but if they're going to, then it's incredibly distasteful to see people justify their bigotry by making the people they hate *deserve* that hatred by doing such palpably inane things. Anti-religious bigotry runs throughout this book. He makes up a couple of religions that are really stupid (showing that he doesn't understand how any religions outside of California actually work), and he has Christians flock straight into alien subservience for no other apparent reason than that it would be stupid to flock in, so Christians would obviously do that. And it just never seems to occur to him that there's something wrong with that.
2) Speaking of Rucker not having properly thought out what "real people" should actually do: early on, a giant lizard attacks a city. The book takes place in a world fairly similar to this one, so nothing like that has ever happened. And the next day, is anyone talking about it? For some reason, no. It's boring old business as usual. And when the main character actually asks somebody about it, it's like "Oh yeah, that thing. Yeah that was kinda weird."
3) If you're going to rip off Robert Heinlein (Puppetmasters) please do a good job of it. Better yet, don't rip off Robert Heinlein.
4) If you're going to rip off Robert Heinlein (By His Bootstraps) please do a good job of it. Better yet, don't rip off Robert Heinlein.
5) Isn't Rucker supposed to actually be a scientist? Then why doesn't he display some sense of science? He just tosses out science terms willy-nilly as justifications for the plot, without any actual science. Why does changing Plank's constant give these guys power? Seriously. There used to be a day when you'd read science fiction and come away actually having learned something. But hey, Rucker's obviously a string theorist. Those guys don't feel like they need to make sense with science, either, so he probably doesn't see what's wrong with this.
6) And for kicks, we get to come along on Rucker's transsexual fantasy. He does make sure to explain that he wished to become a beautiful woman as part of a heterosexual urge, though. Uh, yeah. Riiiiight.

All over the place.......2007-06-27

This is my first Rudy Rucker book, and I guess he's not for me. Lots of wacky things happen from chapter to chapter, but it would be nice if there was a plot that I cared about. It just felt very haphazard.

Mastering Astronomy (Macmillan Master Series (Science))

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Mastering Astronomy (Macmillan Master Series (Science))
Gerald North
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The mural master
Adrienne Jones
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The Ren & Stimpy Show Special #3 (Masters of Time and Space!, Volume 1)

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The Ren & Stimpy Show Special #3 (Masters of Time and Space!, Volume 1)
Dan Slott
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The Ren and Stimpy Show Special issue #3. Masters of Time and Space. A "Choose your own adventure" epic! October 1994.

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Time Trouble (Masters of the Universe)
Roger McKenzie
Manufacturer: Olympic Marketing Corp
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Binding: Hardcover

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A little dose of Sanity

Surviving, not thriving? There's hope for you..yes, you!

Lets your spirit soar by letting you feel your feelings!

The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Co-Dependents (Hazelden Meditation Series)
Melody Beattie
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A little dose of Sanity.......2007-01-05

I love this book and bought additional copies for my sister and a friend.
Each day you get a simple yet profound message of positivity that really uplifts my spirits.

I am so happy I found this book.

Surviving, not thriving? There's hope for you..yes, you!.......2003-11-02

I bought "The Language of Letting Go" when facing major loss, thinking it was a book about handling grief. It was one of the best mistakes I ever made. I am more grateful for this single volume than for my entire library of 3,000 other books, and daily experience more benefit.

Melody Beattie's book of meditations is a guidebook for life. It's about holding on to what is meaningful, and letting go of that which can only continue to hurt us. The meditations, one for each day of the year, seem to be divinely inspired.

No matter what pain you feel, these meditations are a healing balm for a wounded heart. Melody Beattie's clear and simple writing addresses the difficulties of living, loving, caring, surviving, being gentle with one's self, making mistakes, learning to detach with love, and finding balance.

During a year in which I experienced major loss, and mounting stress, caring for several family members with major illness, and coping with my own, "The Language of Letting Go" was my lifeline. This book helped me regain a sense of perspective. In times of great despair, it has been a lifeline.

Imagine reading one book for five minutes each morning or night, and literally having it change your life for the better. This is that book. "Language of Letting Go" is clearly written, accessible, and direct. I recommend it to anyone experiencing pain, confusion, despair, depression, loss, anger, frustration, and grief. It will help you find your way.

A personal aside to anyone put off by use of the word "God" in books about recovery. For many of us, the word "God" was used to shame us as children, when hearing it or seeing it, we still cringe. A fixed belief in the limited view of God we received in childhood is not necessary to understand and benefit from the meditations. I use a phrase that has meaning and relevance for me: wherever a book says "God", I use "The Assembly of Higher Powers as I Understand Them".

"Language of Letting Go" is appropriate reading for anyone desiring greater clarity of thought. I suggest that you will rediscover yourself within its covers, being loved, and recovering long-lost hope. This book can help you find peace of mind, and restore your courage to face each new day.

Lets your spirit soar by letting you feel your feelings!.......1999-04-03

If I could only have one book throughout my life, this would be the book I would choose because it has made me feel so good! I was given this daily meditation book by a friend in 1992 and it is the first book I have ever read EVERY day! No book has ever made me feel so good about being me. The short, daily meditations lift my spirits and let my heart soar. They have let me enjoy being just who I am and loving it. Most of us deny our true feelings and supress who we really are. This delightfully written book reassures us that our feelings were designed by God and are o.k. to feel. When God gives us a feeling, it is his way of preparing us to have that need met. This book helps your spirit soar and helps you become the person God intended you to be.

I give this book as graduation, birthday, and anniversary gifts to those special people I love. I am now ordering another copy for me, too, as I have worn mine out from reading a short meditation every day that always makes me feel better! The author may not be an angel, but she definitely has connections that will touch your heart and soul!

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The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Co-Dependents (Hazelden Meditation Series)
Melody Beattie
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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ASIN: B000OEN950

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