Shape and structure from engineering to nature, author Adrian Bejan, Cambridge university press, ISBN 0-521-79049-2

Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 184 pp., ISBN 0-521-69269-5

The proposed solution runs entirely against the orthodoxy that compositionality is necessary for modularity, but it is persausive. Much to their credit, the authors have robustly defended this view and others in several online forums, and have shown they are prepared to accept and develop viewpoints distinct from their own. In closing, I must ask the inevitable rhetorical questions: would CTM h...

Worldwide Asset and Liability Modeling; W.T. Ziemba and J.M. Mulvey (eds.); Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, ISBN: 0-521-57187-1, hardback (US$ 95.00)

DYNAMICS OF MARKETS: ECONOPHYSICS AND FINANCE By Joseph L. McCauley, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, 209 + xvi pages, ISBN 0-521-82447-8

The nature of econophysics and its relationship with both economics and physics has become increasingly contentious and controversial recently (Ball [2]; Gallegati et al. [3], 2006). The term is quite recent, only neologized in 1995 by Eugene Stanley and then defined by him and Rosario Mantegna (Mantegna and Stanley [4, pages viii–ix]) as a “multidisciplinary field” consisting of “activities by...

Shape and Structure, from Engineering to Nature

Seemingly universal geometric forms unite the flow systems of engineering and nature. For example, tree-shaped flows can be seen in computers, lungs, dendritic crystals, urban street patterns, and communication links. In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan considers the design and optimization of engineered systems and discovers a deterministic principle of the generation of geometric form i...

News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change by Timothy Marjoribanks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 221 pp., ISBN 0-521-77280-x and 0-521-77535-3

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