{"title":"Manfred R Schroeder","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"fractals-chaos-power-laws-book-manfred-r-schroeder-9780716721369","title":"Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws","description":"As notable as the book's broad sweep is the author's good-natured, humorous presentation. The willing reader can sit back and enjoy an all-encompassing, irrepressibly enthusiastic tour, ranging from psycho physics to quasicrystals, from gambling strategies to Bach concertos, from the construction of Cantor sets to the design of concert halls. -- \u003ci\u003ePhysics Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSuch a richness of topics and amazing splendor of illustrations  -- \u003ci\u003eMathematics Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e An inviting exposition for a literate but not highly scientific audience. -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mathematical Monthly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis fascinating book explores the connections between chaos theory, physics, biology, and mathematics. Its award-winning computer graphics, optical illusions, and games illustrate the concept of self-similarity, a typical property of fractals. Author Manfred Schroeder -- hailed by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e as a modern Lewis Carroll -- conveys memorable insights in the form of puns and puzzles that relate abstract mathematics to everyday experience.\u003cbr\u003eExcellent entertainment for readers with a grasp of algebra and some calculus, this book forms a fine university-level introduction to fractal math. Eight pages of color images clarify the text, along with numerous black-and-white illustrations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49849659687185,"sku":"CIN0716721368G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50320622846225,"sku":"GOR002566475","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51480492638481,"sku":"GOR014297545","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51830108061969,"sku":"CIN0716721368VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52765009936657,"sku":"GOR008699042","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53148086337809,"sku":"GOR014776851","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0716721368.jpg?v=1750784338"},{"product_id":"fractals-chaos-power-laws-book-manfred-r-schroeder-9780486472041","title":"Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws","description":"As notable as the book's broad sweep is the author's good-natured, humorous presentation. The willing reader can sit back and enjoy an all-encompassing, irrepressibly enthusiastic tour, ranging from psycho physics to quasicrystals, from gambling strategies to Bach concertos, from the construction of Cantor sets to the design of concert halls. -- \u003ci\u003ePhysics Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSuch a richness of topics and amazing splendor of illustrations  -- \u003ci\u003eMathematics Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e An inviting exposition for a literate but not highly scientific audience. -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mathematical Monthly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis fascinating book explores the connections between chaos theory, physics, biology, and mathematics. Its award-winning computer graphics, optical illusions, and games illustrate the concept of self-similarity, a typical property of fractals. Author Manfred Schroeder -- hailed by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e as a modern Lewis Carroll -- conveys memorable insights in the form of puns and puzzles that relate abstract mathematics to everyday experience.\u003cbr\u003eExcellent entertainment for readers with a grasp of algebra and some calculus, this book forms a fine university-level introduction to fractal math. Eight pages of color images clarify the text, along with numerous black-and-white illustrations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351497052433,"sku":"CIN0486472043G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50628542955793,"sku":"GOR011277234","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108931858705,"sku":"GOR006530577","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52326921830673,"sku":"NIN9780486472041","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52461176652049,"sku":"CIN0486472043VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53047504666897,"sku":"CIN0486472043A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53432084955409,"sku":"GOR014917331","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486472043.jpg?v=1750943597"},{"product_id":"computer-speech-book-manfred-r-schroeder-9783540212676","title":"Computer Speech","description":"The first edition having been sold out, gives me a welcome opportunity to augment this volume by some recent applications of speech research. A new chapter, by Holger Quast, treats speech dialogue systems and natural lan- guage processing. Dictation programs for word processors, voice dialing for mobile phones, and dialogue systems for air travel reservations, automated banking, and translation over the telephone are at the forefront of human-machine inter- faces. Spoken language dialogue systems are also invaluable for the physically handicapped. For researchers new to the field, the new chapter (pp. 67-106) provides an overview of fundamental linguistic concepts from phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, gramm ars and knowedge representation. Symbolic methodology, such as Norman Chomsky's traditional hierarchy of formal languages is layed out as are statistical approaches to analyze text. Proven tools of language processing are covered in detail, including finite- state automata, Zipf's law, trees annd parsers. The second part of the new chapter introduces the building blocks of state-of-the-art dialogue systems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52348638265617,"sku":"NLS9783540212676","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783540212676.jpg?v=1758178534"},{"product_id":"computer-speech-book-manfred-r-schroeder-9783642059568","title":"Computer Speech","description":"The first edition having been sold out, gives me a welcome opportunity to augment this volume by some recent applications of speech research. A new chapter, by Holger Quast, treats speech dialogue systems and natural lan- guage processing. Dictation programs for word processors, voice dialing for mobile phones, and dialogue systems for air travel reservations, automated banking, and translation over the telephone are at the forefront of human-machine inter- faces. Spoken language dialogue systems are also invaluable for the physically handicapped. For researchers new to the field, the new chapter (pp. 67-106) provides an overview of fundamental linguistic concepts from phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, gramm ars and knowedge representation. Symbolic methodology, such as Norman Chomsky's traditional hierarchy of formal languages is layed out as are statistical approaches to analyze text. Proven tools of language processing are covered in detail, including finite- state automata, Zipf's law, trees annd parsers. The second part of the new chapter introduces the building blocks of state-of-the-art dialogue systems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52476062269713,"sku":"NLS9783642059568","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783642059568.jpg?v=1759843469"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-manfred-r-schroeder.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}