"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Historical and philosophical overview -- 1.1. Outline -- 1.2. A new mathematical structure -- 1.3. Alpha labels in spiraled hierarchy of mathematical structures -- 1.4. Universality and minimalism of alpha labeling and unpredictability -- 1.5. Principle of excessiveness : the Universe approximates…
"Version: 202306"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Uncertainty propagation -- 2.1. Averaging methods for estimating the measurand in nonlinear models -- 2.2. First-order linearisation and the normality assumption -- 2.3. The Monte Carlo method -- 2.4. The use of a mathematical representation of the probability density function -- 2.5. Uncertainty evalu…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy as missing information : from Shannon's information theory to Jaynes' maximum entropy principle -- 1.1. Information and its processing in biology, economics and physics -- 1.2. Uncertainty in communication systems : Shannon entropy -- 1.3. Entropy as missing information -- 1.4. Working with incomplete informati…
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. What this book is about -- 1.1. Unpredictability -- 1.2. Domain structured dynamics -- 1.3. Random processes -- 1.4. Abstract fractals -- 1.5. Differential equations -- 1.6. Neural networkspart II. Chaos and fractals. 2. Unpredictability implies chaos -- 2.1. Unpredictability in dynamics -- 2.2. Unp…
"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.7. Toda's lattice of correlation potentials -- 7.1. The Toda soliton lattice -- 7.2. Developing nonlinearity -- 7.3. Conversion to Korteweg-deVries' lattice potential8. Scattering theory of the soliton lattice -- 8.1. Elemental waves -- 8.2. Scattering theory : dissipation, reflection, and transmission -- 8.3. Method of inv…
"Version: 202203"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.10. Partial differential equations -- 10.1. Partial differential equations in physics -- 10.2. Finite difference method for solving ordinary differential equations -- 10.3. Finite difference method for solving PDEs -- 10.4. A finite difference method for PDEs involving both spatial and temporal derivatives11. Nonlinear dyna…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Molecular dynamics -- 1.1. Single particle -- 1.2. Time reversibility -- 1.3. Multiple particles -- 1.4. Randomness -- 1.5. Further reading -- 1.6. Problems -- 1.7. Challenges2. Ising model -- 2.1. Monte Carlo method -- 2.2. Ising model -- 2.3. Critical temperature -- 2.4. Critical mixtures -- 2.5. Further reading -- 2.6…
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-17).Introduction -- Background -- Current directions -- Outlook.Quantitative finance is a field that has risen to prominence over the last few decades. It encompasses the complex models and calculations that value financial contracts, particularly those which reference events in the future, and apply probabiliti…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Notation and tensor analysis essentials -- 2.1. Linear fractional transform -- 2.2. Visualizing rotations3. Orthogonal basis and coordinate transformations -- 3.1. Superimposed rotations -- 3.2. Basis rotations4. Rotation operations -- 4.1. Why apparent inconsistency in placement of the negative sign…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Singularity -- 1.2. Singularities in science and engineering -- 1.3. Acoustic vortex -- 1.4. Singularities in optics -- 1.5. Amplitude, phase and polarization -- 1.6. Brief historical account of optical phase singularities2. Topological features -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wavefront shape -- 2.3. …