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Chapters: George Pólya, Abraham Wald, Ivan Fellegi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abraham Wald (October 31, 1902) - December 13, 1950) was a mathematician born in Cluj, in the then AustriaHungary (present-day Romania) who contributed to decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, and founded the field of statistical sequential analysis. He spent his researching years at Columbia University. Being a religious Jew, he could not attend school on Saturdays, as was required at the time by the Hungarian school system, and was thus home-schooled by his parents until college. His parents were quite knowledgeable and competent as teachers. In 1927, he entered graduate school at the University of Vienna, from which he graduated in 1931 with a Ph.D. in mathematics. His advisor there was Karl Menger. Despite Wald's brilliance, he could not obtain a university position, because of Austrian discrimination against Jews. However, Oskar Morgenstern created a position for Wald in economics. When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, the discrimination against Jews intensified. In particular, Wald and his family were persecuted as Jews. Wald was able to emigrate to the United States, at the invitation of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, to work on econometrics research. Wald and his wife died in an airplane crash in the Nilgiri mountains, in southern India, while on an extensive lecture tour at the invitation of the Indian government. Following his death, Wald was attacked by Sir Ronald A. Fisher FRS; Fisher attacked Wald for being a mathematician without scientific experience who had written an incompetent book on statistics, Fisher claimed; Fisher particularly criticized Wald's work on the design of experiments, alleging ignorance of the basic ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1239430 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Albert Einstein, George Pólya, Niklaus Wirth, Wolfgang Pauli, Peter Debye, Paul Feyerabend, Gottfried Semper, Richard R. Ernst, Auguste Piccard, Rudolf Clausius, Heinz Hopf, Carl Jung, Hermann Weyl, Richard Dedekind, Jacob Burckhardt, Hermann Staudinger, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Viktor Meyer, Hermann Minkowski, Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Ružička, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Alfred Werner, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Richard Willstätter, Rudolf E. Kalman, Bertrand Meyer, Adolf Hurwitz, Otto Stern, Jean-François Bergier, Richard Kuhn, Christian Menn, Demetrios Christodoulou, Kurt Wüthrich, Gustav Cohn, Georg Von Krogh, Oswald Heer, Hermann Schwarz, Paul Scherrer, Hans Kollhoff, Dieter Seebach, K. S. Chandrasekharan, Alain Wegmann, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Aurel Stodola, Eduard Imhof, François Diederich, Walter Giger, James Massey, Duilio Arigoni, Albert Eschenmoser, Jürgen Moser, Jay Bailey, Carl Culmann, Wilhelm Michler, Eduard Stiefel, Rudolf Trümpy, Marcel Grossmann, Ferdinand Redtenbacher, Didier Sornette, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Ataç Imamoğlu, Jakob Ackeret, Eugen Von Lommel, Georg Wiegner, Carl Eduard Cramer, Katrin Wehrheim, Ernst Specker, Karl Moser, Gisbert Wüstholz. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relati...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: Donald Knuth, George Pólya, John Horton Conway, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Gian-Carlo Rota, James Stirling, W. T. Tutte, Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden, Paul Erdős, Frank P. Ramsey, András Hajnal, Terence Tao, James Joseph Sylvester, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Pál Turán, Timothy Gowers, Eric Temple Bell, Percy Alexander Macmahon, Václav Chvátal, Michel Deza, John Howard Redfield, Julian West, Béla Bollobás, George Szekeres, Ronald Graham, Heiko Harborth, Øystein Ore, László Lovász, Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Ben J. Green, Judith Q. Longyear, Víctor Neumann-Lara, Solomon W. Golomb, David B. Weinberger, Ernst G. Straus, Issai Schur, Percy John Heawood, Doron Zeilberger, Alfréd Rényi, Ken Ono, Jaroslav Nešetřil, Fred S. Roberts, Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev, Neil Sloane, Eugène Charles Catalan, Fan Chung, Herbert Wilf, Noga Alon, D. Raghavarao, Arthur Milgram, Endre Szemerédi, Igor Pak, Gil Kalai, László Pyber, Branko Grünbaum, László Babai, Jack Edmonds, Richard K. Guy, George Andrews, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Richard P. Stanley, Emanuel Sperner, Paul Seymour, Vera T. Sós, András Frank, Imre Leader, John Riordan, D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Michele Mosca, Naum Vilenkin, M. N. Vartak, Michael H. Albert, Vance Faber, Gábor Tardos, Cheryl Praeger, Jim Geelen, Sun Zhiwei, Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Brendan Mckay, Aviezri Fraenkel, Daniel Kleitman, Karl Mahlburg, Yousef Alavi, Péter Frankl, Fred Galvin, Jeong Han Kim, Norman Macleod Ferrers, Lajos Pósa, D. R. Fulkerson, Rosemary A. Bailey, Richard Rado, Peter Cameron, Gyula O. H. Katona, Stefan Burr, Doug Stinson, Navin M. Singhi, Chris Godsil, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Anatoly Vershik, Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Bernard Frénicle de Bessy, Ron Aharoni, Dénes Kőnig, W. H. Clatworthy, David Shane Gunderson, Zoltán Füredi, Jack Van Lint, Alfred Young, Joel Spencer, Helge Tverberg, Tibor Gallai, David P. Robbins, Alan Hoffman, Thomas Zaslavsky, R. M. Wilson, Walther Von Dyc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=47717 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Von Neumann, George Pólya, Harry Houdini, Béla Bartók, Eugene Wigner, Thomas Szasz, Edward Teller, Leó Szilárd, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Isaac Klein, Eva Gabor, Magda Gabor, Jolie Gabor, Robert Capa, Lee Strasberg, George Soros, Tom Lantos, Béla H. Bánáthy, George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Charles Simonyi, Marcel Breuer, Theodore Von Kármán, Tibor Rubin, Joe Eszterhas, Andrew Grove, Marta Eggerth, Ernő Schwarz, Steven Kemenyffy, Emery Roth, Cornell Capa, Antal Doráti, Julius Stahel, Joseph H. Hertz, Juli Veee, John George Kemeny, Hugo Gellert, Gabor Boritt, Francis de Erdely, Peter Lax, Alexander Pfitzner, Fritz Reiner, Alexander Asboth, Gene Mako, Paul Nemenyi, Mihály Iglói, William Fox, Cornelius Lanczos, Vilmos Zsigmond, György Sándor, Yosef Goldman, Julius Thomas Fraser, László Tábori, Snitz Edwards, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Thomas Sebeok, Sigmund Romberg, Jim Benedek, Béla A. Bánáthy, Kati Marton, Mischa Markow, Theodore S. Weiss, Susan Francia, Gregory Nagy, Egon Orowan, John Batki, George Kish, Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, Leslie L. Vadász, Richard Bartha, Ferenc A. Váli, Samuel S. Koenig, Endre Szemerédi, Ernie Konnyu, István Deák, László Babai, Alex Blum, Charles Vidor, Éva Szörényi, Laszlo Belady, Lipa Goldman, John Birges, Magda Gerber, László Tisza, Vince Nagy, Samuel Gold, Tibor Radó, Károly Peyer, Victor Nellenbogen, Charles Korvin, Victor Szebehely, Ladislas Goldstein, Mario Szegedy, Áron Tamási, Soma Weiss, Bernat Rosner, E. Andrew Balas, Miklós Nyárádi, Tiny Kline, Agí Donáth, Edward R. Straznicky, Paul Fejos, Iren Marik, Joseph John Annabring, Ladislas Segoe. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film produ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53395 ... Read more

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“Solving problems”, writes Polya, “is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: You can learn it only by imitation and practice. This book cannot offer you a magic key that opens all the doors and solves all the problems, but it offers you good examples for imitation and many opportunities for practice: If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.” “In enough cases to allay ... discouragement over not immediately discovering a solution, Professor Polya masterfully leads the reader down several unproductive paths. At the end of each chapter he provides examples for the render to solve. By means of these carefully selected and arranged problems, many of them directly related to others that precede, and guided by just the right suggestions at just the proper time, the reader's own ability is developed and extended. Solutions to the examples and, in many cases, outlines of procedures for discovering solutions. arc given at the back of the book. With striking promise for effectiveness, theentire book as a unit is one great experience in learning processes for problem solving through participation. The author has captured with great success the implication of his basic premise stated in the preface ...” The Mathematics Teacher 218 pages. ... Read more