BOOK REVIEW | Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary? Second Edition

Book review: Epigenetics (second edition, eds. Allis, Caparros, Jenuwein, Reinberg)

A book review on Epigenetics, second edition Edited by C. Epigenetics is a dynamic and well-established branch of genetics. It deals with heritable traits, which are not transmitted by the sequence of DNA but rather by the state of chromatin. The evolving landscape of epigenetic research has been reviewed in many excellent books and monographs. Amongst these, the second edition of Epigenetics b...

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

An Exercise on Real Elementary Functions in the Book “Symbolic Integration I” (second edition)

In this note, we present an answer to Exercise 9.3 in the Book Symbolic Integration I (second edition) by M. Bronstein, under an additional assumption that the real elementary extension in the exercise is purely transcendental. Our answer is based on a rather technical lemma derived from a naive attempt to do the exercise inductively.

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Book Review: Speech and Language Processing (second edition) Daniel Jurafsky and Martin, H. James

Speech and Language Processing is a general textbook on natural language processing, with an excellent coverage of the area and an unusually broad scope of topics. It includes statistical and symbolic approaches to NLP, as well as the main methods of speech processing. I would rank it as the most appropriate introductory and reference textbook for purposes such as an introductory fourth-year un...