Black and White Matrix

Black and White Matrix

Author: Vincenzo Sguera

Publisher: Arkivia Books Srl (Acc)

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788888766140

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Packed full of inventive designs and ideas, Black & White Matrix 1 is a source of inspiration for designers. From striking geometric patterns to soft, simple designs, this book is a resource no design professional should be without.


Random Matrix Models and Their Applications

Random Matrix Models and Their Applications

Author: Pavel Bleher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-06-04

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780521802093

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Expository articles on random matrix theory emphasizing the exchange of ideas between the physical and mathematical communities.


Boy @ the Window

Boy @ the Window

Author: Donald Earl Collins

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780989256131

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As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.


Black Feminist Thought

Black Feminist Thought

Author: Patricia Hill Collins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-06-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1135960135

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In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.


The Cultural Matrix

The Cultural Matrix

Author: Orlando Patterson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 0674728750

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The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. This interdisciplinary work explains how a complex matrix of cultures influences black youth.


Algebraic Biology, Matrix Genetics, And Genetic Intelligence

Algebraic Biology, Matrix Genetics, And Genetic Intelligence

Author: Sergei V Petoukhov

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2023-08-02

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 981127827X

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Historically, mathematics, probability, and statistics have been widely used in the biological sciences. Recent progress in genomics has yielded many millions of gene sequences. But what do these sequences tell us and what are the generalities and rules governed by them? It seems that we understand very little about the genetic contexts required to 'read' them. There is more to life than the genomic blueprint of each organism. Life functions within the natural laws that we know and the ones we do not know. The development of modern mathematical natural sciences is based on the use of certain mathematical tools. Mathematics can be used to understand life from the molecular to the biosphere level.This book provides the foundation and latest advances for an emerging research area that uses tools from symbolic computation, computer algebra and logic, algebraic geometry, fractal geometry, probability and statistics, and matrix algebra to formalize and solve biological problems and explore its applications in algebraic biology and code biology. It introduces highly interdisciplinary topics in biomathematics such as matrix genetics, gestalt biology, bio-antenna arrays, resonance genetics, quantum biology, and more.


A Combinatorial Approach to Matrix Theory and Its Applications

A Combinatorial Approach to Matrix Theory and Its Applications

Author: Richard A. Brualdi

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2008-08-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781420082241

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Unlike most elementary books on matrices, A Combinatorial Approach to Matrix Theory and Its Applications employs combinatorial and graph-theoretical tools to develop basic theorems of matrix theory, shedding new light on the subject by exploring the connections of these tools to matrices. After reviewing the basics of graph theory, elementary counting formulas, fields, and vector spaces, the book explains the algebra of matrices and uses the König digraph to carry out simple matrix operations. It then discusses matrix powers, provides a graph-theoretical definition of the determinant using the Coates digraph of a matrix, and presents a graph-theoretical interpretation of matrix inverses. The authors develop the elementary theory of solutions of systems of linear equations and show how to use the Coates digraph to solve a linear system. They also explore the eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and characteristic polynomial of a matrix; examine the important properties of nonnegative matrices that are part of the Perron–Frobenius theory; and study eigenvalue inclusion regions and sign-nonsingular matrices. The final chapter presents applications to electrical engineering, physics, and chemistry. Using combinatorial and graph-theoretical tools, this book enables a solid understanding of the fundamentals of matrix theory and its application to scientific areas.


Black in Place

Black in Place

Author: Brandi Thompson Summers

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-09-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1469654024

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While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a "post-chocolate" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments. In doing so, she offers a theoretical framework for understanding how blackness is aestheticized and deployed to organize landscapes and raise capital. Summers focuses on the continuing significance of blackness in a place like the nation's capital, how blackness contributes to our understanding of contemporary urbanization, and how it laid an important foundation for how Black people have been thought to exist in cities. Summers also analyzes how blackness—as a representation of diversity—is marketed to sell a progressive, "cool," and authentic experience of being in and moving through an urban center. Using a mix of participant observation, visual and media analysis, interviews, and archival research, Summers shows how blackness has become a prized and lucrative aesthetic that often excludes D.C.'s Black residents.