Applied Languages Books

I have used this book for self study of the subject of error correction coding and I find it excellent. It is clear and well organized, with easy language and good examples all along. It does not require a professional mathematician to understand even the most subtle passages.
I read it in conjuction with Todd Moon's other book on Error Correction Coding (also an excellent choice) and although Pretzel's book is much shorter and without examples of hardware, I much appreciated its style and structure.
It would be nice if the author would publish an up-to-date errata of the several printing mistakes.

Overall an excellent book on coding theory. Pretzel discusses fundamental codes for error correction such as hamming codes, BCH codes and Reed-Solomon codes. His presentation of finite fields is excellent. He does not simply slap equations down but leads you by way of examples and intuition and then applies them towards the construction of BCH and Reed-Solomon codes. This is an excellent book on coding theory.

This book have a good introduction of basic coding theory. Very interesting the Z/2 fields and the polynomial arithmetic. This book is used at University of Salamanca, 5th of Ingenieria Informatica.

Tomás Kalmar's book is a charming combination of personal experience and erudite scholarship, written in an engaging fashion. The author's treatment of the politics of biliteracy, from the fruit-groves of the Midwest to the halls of academe, is both passionate and clear-sighted. The alert reader will also enjoy observing evidence of Kalmar's wide-ranging interests threading through the fabric of the book, notably his fondness for music and his fascination with mathematical and proto-mathematical thinking.

I was impressed with this book not only because of Tomas Kalmar's clear mastery of the topic and knowledge of linguistics but also because of how flat out fun the book was to read: engaging and to the point, this book takes a serious look at what it's like to be a migrant worker in the US, struggling with language barriers and discrimination and highlights the strength of the Latino community. Because of the detailed linguistic content, I'm using it for a coursebook next semester. Because it's a fine read, I'm giving it as a gift to nonlinguist friends. BTW: if you happen to be English/Spanish bilingual, there are some very funny bits!

Allá para el verano de 1980, en el pueblo de Cobden, Illinois, los wetbacks would pick fruit at a blistering pace, pero sus patronos se mantenían suficientemente distanciados para no crear revuelos. Everyone knew que los indocumentados rendered an invaluable service to the economic stability of the fruit-pickers market, pero el zumbido tenue-yet constant-que se generaba no dejaba de ser escudriñado by those who wanted to mend the suffering and injustice. Era necesario romper la barrera del silencio. Había que legitimizar the apparent reticence among migrant mexican workers dándoles herramientas para decodificar the seeminlgy impenetrable, iron-clad English language. El inglés, entreched in legalese and exuding una supuesta legitimidad inquebrantable, trataba de silenciar al arrullo de un español de carne y hueso que día a día clamaba por su supervivencia.
Tomás Mario Kalmar, académico, músico, historiador y maestro, documenta, con suceptibilidd y tacto, what unfolded en aquellas reuniones clandestinas where two monolingual communities redescubrían la verdadera diferencia entre el abecedario y la alfabetización. Uno de los estudiantes congregados in the dimly lit basement rompió el hielo de la primera sesión al declarar que los sonidos de un alfabeto no necesáriamente tenían que corresponder con los caracetres. Había que razonar: even though English and Spanish share the same alphabet (con la excepción de la ll y la ñ), both adhere to pronunciation keys that are radically different. Bajo la tutela de Kalmar, a new language emerged. Entre lo correcto y lo incorrecto, between the sound and the written text, una comunidad de estudiantes y maestros began to write English como de veras se oía. Hence, the Cobden Glossaries emerged líricamente. Nació, luego de interminables noches de juego y debate, un tomo lírico, suntuoso, complejo, sinewy, yet veritable, dónde la palabra juellulib nestled una verdad tan significante y legítima como la oración where do you live.

The silences que Kalmar interpreta in his manifesto son aquellos silencios que dejan atrás lo clandestino para sumergirse en lo legítimo. The migrant workers yearned for legitimacy. En esa mesa redonda in which students and teachers investigaban diversos modos de encaminarse a la comunicación, existió the possibility that silence would be pricked and made to transform itself into something dynamic and resilient, en algo que puediese reintegrar y redefinir a la comunidad.

This is not a thick and comprehensive book. But it's a very excellent well writen book for any Modelica beginners using AMESim, ITI-SimulationX and Dymola.. The hands-on examples cover mechanical, electrical and hydraulic. All needed in automotive modeling and simulation.

The book is well structured and have many interesting examples. The book is a good start point for anyone who wants to start learning Modelica. The price is in my opinion a little bit expensive since the book is based on Modelica 1.6 language specification and the latest spec is 2.2 with some relevant changes.

One of the weakest points of the new object-oriented modelling language Modelica was the lack of an introduction to help engineers and scientists understand the differences to other modelling concepts. Using many examples from the automotive industry, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering this book explains the concept of physical modelling, i. e. using basic laws to describe physical systems, and shows how to formulate these principles in Modelica. The Modelica language is presented in a series of examples that gradually grow more complex. The companion CD contains the complete source code of the examples and a working version of the commercial tool Dymola. The reader can thus start with the given examples and modify them to get some practise with the tool and the language.

The emphasis of the presentation is on the engineering task of building a model, for more theoretical questions references are given.

I like this book because of it's hands-on approach. It gives a comprehensive introduction to physical modeling and the new language Modelica and I can recommend it to engineers and scientists who have to create or use models of physical systems.

I like this book because it puts leadership in the context of a democracy rather than arguing that leadership is the same no matter what political system you are living in. I like it, too, because of the focus on not only how to persuade the people one is leading, but how to create a better, more thoughtful, public. Soder discusses leadership problems not only in creating and sustaining work, but, just as important, in reconciling and reconstituting when things go wrong between people. This is a reasonable and sensitive book, with many original insights (not all of which are apparent at first glance: this one is worth re-reading.) This book makes one think, and at the same time, offers practical advice for leaders in business or educational settings. I only wish I had read it sooner.

"The Language of Leadership" is a fairly quick and easy read. Soder seasons his account w/ many illustrative anecdotes from classical literary sources. He is very well-read, of course, so his excerpts are aptly chosen. Yet I often found myself skimming ahead through his text in search of "more matter, less art" (to invoke the Bard of Avon!).

Readers seeking more substance on this score would do better to consult another Jossey-Bass title instead: "The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership" (by Fairhurst & Sarr, 1996). Otherwise, Soder's book has a few new and suggestive insights to offer. Granted, it may be fine--at least as far as it goes. It just doesn't go very far or break much original ground on the subject.

In these present and certainly confusing times, I've hesitated to review this most important book and talk about how we, as a democratic populace, might come together to consider notions of leadership. However, I've also come to realize how exclusionary our collective (aka..seemingly innocent) language can be, when those in postitions of leadership speak, be it gender or nationality or religiously, or etc. -based.....Examples: our "brother firefighters" ...certainly there were female firefighters lost and/or also engaged in the rescue effort; Words from the President and others that excluded other than-"Christian" engagement in participation. These are times that require most careful attention to our language and our resulting dialogue in order to engage others in our potential cause.

Thus, we must be so very careful to monitor our language and use it most carefully and wisely. Soder directs us toward inclusive and productive leadership language grounded in our predecessors from whom we have much to learn. This is a wise and most careful author calling our attention issues with immense significance.

Soder's book is a resource that needs and deserves the attention of all those attending to the competence of present and future leaders...regardless of areas of expert*ise.and particularly in light of the issues tht David Imig (AACTE) has raised regarding perceptions of leadership among practitioners.

While Soder has given us an exceptionally important and valuable resource, I view it a a rich dessert...to be absorbed most slowly and carefully in order to appreciate its full texture, nuances, subtleties, and meanings....A must read for all those invested in future leaders...regardless of context...

Despite the odd typographical error, this book is outstanding. It is clear, concise and quite readable. Material is presented in a manner which is easy to understand. The only slight criticisms are that my copy did not include the promised computer disk, that often the descriptions of what the code does are often hard to understand and that the binding on the book is of extremely poor quality (my copy was losing pages within days of purchase). Otherwise very highly recommended.

I gave the material in the book 5 stars, but the new edition 0 stars (at least for ~$200). My advisor just bought the newest edition (the old one finally falling apart after years of use) and it is cheaply made. The binding is already coming apart and the text is difficult to read because the text is fuzzy. Hopefully Dr. Bird will write a newer edition with some of the most recent advances and a better printing.

An astonishing accomplishment by the man who more or less invented the field of DSMC calculation. Includes a handy-dandy disk (with source) so you can run you own problem with a variety of different boundary conditions. See also Bird 1973, Phys Fluids, v16 pp1830-1834.

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IT WAS A NICE BOOK TO BE REVIEVED AS I WANT TO DO MY DIISERTATION ON THIS TOPIC I WOULD BR GRATEFUL TO YOU IF YOU KINDLY HELP ME IN ANY MANNER.

A good book if you are looking for some applications of GAs and different points of view on how implementing a GA. Some examples include: a Parallel GA, a timetable solution, a finite state machine implementation and much more. But it doesn't goes deep in implementation details. Not recommended for real beginners

I am using this book to tutor a Russian immigrant whose spoken English is excellent, but who has no concept of English spelling. The book is very easy to use, progresses logically from one lesson to the next and is well suited to using with older children or adults. It teaches the basic spelling rules, but uses higher level vocabulary and is not childish. It offers clear explanations and a variety of practice exercises. Highly recommended

My second son has a terrible time spelling and this book has really helped him. It starts with very simple rules of spelling that are easy to remember. It uses the dictionary as one of it's tools too! ;-) We are very happy with the book!!!!!!

I purchased this book to help my fourth grader, who is in a reading/writing curriculum that is good at reading but omits spelling pretty much altogether (NYC teachers are NOT ALLOWED to give spelling tests). So far the book is very logical and helpful, teaching students to analyze words syllable by syllable and apply the standard English rules and generalizations. Its goal isn't to teach 100% of English words, but the 85% that follow "regular" English rules. The extensive intro and diagnostic section is also very helpful for us non-educators using the book. I highly recommend it.

good help-should have evens thoug

That's what computers were really intended to know: do the Maths that even smart people can not do by hand! And all that without numbers...

There are only few books detailing the way a Computer Algebra System does its most magical work : compute symbolic integrals. At school we learn only some tricks to do that and these tricks work only in a few cases. This is a book written by a master of symbolic integration and providing with great care all the details concerning the computers point of view : euclidean algorithms, resultants and subresultants, Hermite reduction, the Lazard-Rioboo-Trager algorithm as well as Rioboo's, the Rothstein-Trager resultant, the Risch differential equation and... so many more things concerning the integration of transcendental functions I'll stop here. You should find in this book one of the most complete implementation of symbolic integration algorithms to date. To learn more you'll have to look at the high level source code of programs like Axiom (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom) which counted Manuel Bronstein as a major contributor. For a tutorial about CAS look at the end of his homepage : http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/Manuel.Bronstein
Raymond

A book that shows the whole field well. It goes beyond the tutorial books and has handy source code for some practical programs you should run. It also covers resources. I had my school library buy a copy after reading the authors' post on Usenet about the book in comp.lang.fortran. But with computers at home who can access Fortran?

On the verge of the 21st century, FORTRAN as a language is practically dead, since it does not offer modern programming facilities and features commonly found in newer languages.

With the user base declining in quantity and quality (Misha Kagalenko sets a vivid example of the decline in quality), new books on Fortran, especially those that provide essentially no new information to the readers, are almost doomed to fail.

To expound a little more on the example of Kagalenko, his remarks about relative performance of FORTRAN compared to C++ show outstanding ignorance about the state of contemporary computing.

I am just starting the book. It seems to cover a lot of information I am concerned with.

Used this book for a master's course in algorithms. This book very in-depth and covers many new age algorithms dealing with the Internet. We did not get to these topics in my course (we only went through chapters 1-8 out of 27).

The book is mostly concerned with the mathematical analysis of algorithms, and not so much the implementation, which was unexpected for me. Not for the faint of heart, this is a very difficult book, especially if you're not up to date on your mathematical induction techniques, limits, and summations. However, for the scholarly individual, this is a great text to learn new things from. Enjoy, I know I did!