Books written by William Byers
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Industrial Water Management: A Systems Approach
Snoeyink, V.L., and D. Jenkins. 1980. Water Chemistry. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York. 480 pp. Solarchem Environmental Systems. 1994. The UV/ Oxidation Handbook. Markham, Ontario, JULY 2003 R-7 REFERENCES.
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The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty
... or the book by Emanuel Derman (2004). 5. The Black–Scholes model “had figured out how to price and hedge these options in a way that seemed to guarantee profits.” The model was created by Fisher Black, then at University of Chicago, ...
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How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics
Banesh Hoffman with Helen Dukas (1972), p. 18. 5. Einstein (1954). 6. Koestler (1964), p. 103. 7. Bohm (1980), p. ... See the articles by Thurston and Hersh in the Bibliography. 7. Chapters 5 and 6 contain a discussion of mathematical ...
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How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics
This process has also been called “encapsulation” by the mathematics educator Ed Dubinsky.37 What is this “elusive something that makes us feel that we have grasped the essence of a concept, a relation, or a proof”?38 Whatever this ...
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Deep Thinking: What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind
The mathematics educators Dubinsky and Levin claim, “It would seem that one never has direct access to cognitive processes...but, at best, only to what an individual can articulate or demonstrate at the moment of insight itself.
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Mercy's Madhouse: Poems
Then I swear to God—in he walked as big as the boulder dam and black—Ira J. O'Neil, he says— one of the original Tuskeegee Airmen. But I knew him, right off. Hands as big as Yogi's mitt; a voice deep as God Bless America the Beautiful; ...
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The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty
Crackling with insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas, from climate change to the global financial meltdown, this book challenges our most sacredly held beliefs about science, technology, and progress.
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How to Implement Industrial Water Reuse: A Systematic Approach
This text is a how-to guide on cutting water usage in industrial operations, with practical guidance and four examples from diverse industries: aluminium smelting; a paper mill; electric powder generation;...
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Deep Thinking: What Mathematics Can Teach Us about the Mind
This book identifies the way in which the authentic intelligence of deep thinking differs from the artificial intelligence of "big data" and "analytics".
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Industrial Water Management: A Systems Approach
This CD-ROM shows how to systematically incorporate the principles of water conservation, recycling, and reuse into the design of new plants, retrofits of existing systems, and technology development.