Narrow your search

Library

ULB (6)

KU Leuven (2)

UCLouvain (2)

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (1)

KBC (1)

National Bank of Belgium (1)

UAntwerpen (1)

UGent (1)

ULiège (1)

VUB (1)


Resource type

book (7)


Language

English (3)

French (3)

Spanish (1)


Year
From To Submit

2012 (7)

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by

Book
La complexité et les phénomènes : nouvelles ouvertures entre science et philosophie
Author:
ISBN: 9782705682804 2705682805 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris: Hermann,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Two spheres : physical and strategic design in architecture
Author:
ISBN: 9780415782470 9780415782463 Year: 2012 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Apprendre à penser complexe
Author:
ISBN: 9782913167711 9782913167728 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Nantes] : Odin éd.,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Paradigme de la complexité et la sociologie : possibilité et limites d'une sociologie complexe
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9782296963856 2296963854 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Complejidad y ciencias sociales
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9788479932312 Year: 2012 Publisher: Sevilla : Universidad Internacional de Andalucía,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
In pursuit of the traveling salesman : mathematics at the limits of computation
Author:
ISBN: 9780691152707 0691152705 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics--and it has defied solution to this day. In this book, William Cook takes readers on a mathematical excursion, picking up the salesman's trail in the 1800s when Irish mathematician W. R. Hamilton first defined the problem, and venturing to the furthest limits of today's state-of-the-art attempts to solve it. Cook examines the origins and history of the salesman problem and explores its many important applications, from genome sequencing and designing computer processors to arranging music and hunting for planets. He looks at how computers stack up against the traveling salesman problem on a grand scale, and discusses how humans, unaided by computers, go about trying to solve the puzzle. Cook traces the salesman problem to the realms of neuroscience, psychology, and art, and he also challenges readers to tackle the problem themselves. The traveling salesman problem is--literally--a $1 million question. That's the prize the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering to anyone who can solve the problem or prove that it can't be done. In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman travels to the very threshold of our understanding about the nature of complexity, and challenges you yourself to discover the solution to this captivating mathematical problem"--Provided by publisher.


Book
Antifragile : things that gain from disorder
Author:
ISBN: 9781400067824 9780679645276 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Random House

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Praise for Nicholas Nassim Taleb "[This] is the lesson of Taleb. and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable."--Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne."--The Wall Street Journal "The most prophetic voice of all. [Taleb is] a genuinely significant philosopher. someone who is able to change the way we view the structure of the world through the strength, originality and veracity of his ideas alone."--GQ "Changed my view of how the world works."--Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate"-- "Examples of Antifragility: When you stress your body by lifting a big weight, your body gets stronger. New York has the best restaurants in the world because particular restaurants are always going bust, making the aggregate stronger and stronger, or antifragile. Evolution is antifragile. Certain business and investment strategies are antifragile. Older things tend to be more antifragile than newer ones - because they've been exposed to more Black Swans"--

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by