The Stochastic Man

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497632417

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Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This tale of an encounter between a probability expert and a psychic is “a treasure” (San Francisco Examiner). Lew Nichols can predict the future. Not see the future, just make predictions based on research and statistics. Nichols is damn good at it, though, and his accuracy makes him a valuable addition to Paul Quinn’s political campaign for New York City Mayor and possibly the White House. But, when Nichols meets eccentric millionaire Martin Carvajal, predictions suddenly seem petty and flippant. You see, Carvajal can actually see the future—not trends, not options—a signal line of events stretching out ahead. It’s a gift Nichols can learn from this “mentor,” but at what price? Will knowing the future make the present meaningless?

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446345075

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The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg Pdf

In the twentieth century's final months, Lew Nichols, administrative assistant to New York City's mayor and expert in stochastic prediction, comes under the influence of Martin Carvajal and develops full powers of seeing the ineluctable future

Author : Roger Elwood,Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : OCLC:966534995

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Epoch by Roger Elwood,Robert Silverberg Pdf

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504058650

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Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg Pdf

A “dark, restrained, and powerful” mirror of current politics from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Science Fiction Ruminations). In the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period, a penal colony sits high above the ocean on the east coast of what would become the United States. The men—political prisoners—have been sent from the twenty-first century on a one-way ticket to a lifetime of exile. Their lonely existence has taken its toll . . . Jim Barrett was once the physically imposing leader of an underground movement dedicated to toppling America’s totalitarian government. Now he is nothing but a crippled old man, the camp’s de facto ruler due to his seniority. His mind is still sharp, having yet to succumb to the psychosis that claims more and more men each day. So when a new prisoner is transported to the colony—a startlingly young and suspiciously apolitical man—Barrett’s instincts go on high alert. As Barrett reminisces about his revolutionary past, he uncovers the new prisoner’s secrets—and faces a shocking revelation that thrusts him into a future he never dreamed possible . . . “One of the finest writers ever to work in science fiction.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Suresh P. Sethi,Qing Zhang,Han-Qin Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387219471

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Average-Cost Control of Stochastic Manufacturing Systems by Suresh P. Sethi,Qing Zhang,Han-Qin Zhang Pdf

"The material covered in this book cuts across the disciplines of Applied Mathematics, Operations Management, Operations Research, and System and Control Theory. It is written for operations researchers, system and control theorists, applied mathematicians, operations management specialists, and industrial engineers."--Jacket.

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : OCLC:6753957

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Godling, Go Home! by Robert Silverberg Pdf

Author : Floyd B. Hanson
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0898718635

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Applied Stochastic Processes and Control for Jump-Diffusions by Floyd B. Hanson Pdf

This self-contained, practical, entry-level text integrates the basic principles of applied mathematics, applied probability, and computational science for a clear presentation of stochastic processes and control for jump diffusions in continuous time. The author covers the important problem of controlling these systems and, through the use of a jump calculus construction, discusses the strong role of discontinuous and nonsmooth properties versus random properties in stochastic systems.

Author : Eilon Solan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316516331

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A Course in Stochastic Game Theory by Eilon Solan Pdf

This book for beginning graduate students presents a course on stochastic games and the mathematical methods used in their analysis.

Author : Gregory Zuckerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735217997

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The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it. Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars. Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that's sweeping the world. As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit. The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution means for the rest of us.

Author : Fima C. Klebaner
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781860945557

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Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications by Fima C. Klebaner Pdf

This book presents a concise treatment of stochastic calculus and its applications. It gives a simple but rigorous treatment of the subject including a range of advanced topics, it is useful for practitioners who use advanced theoretical results. It covers advanced applications, such as models in mathematical finance, biology and engineering.Self-contained and unified in presentation, the book contains many solved examples and exercises. It may be used as a textbook by advanced undergraduates and graduate students in stochastic calculus and financial mathematics. It is also suitable for practitioners who wish to gain an understanding or working knowledge of the subject. For mathematicians, this book could be a first text on stochastic calculus; it is good companion to more advanced texts by a way of examples and exercises. For people from other fields, it provides a way to gain a working knowledge of stochastic calculus. It shows all readers the applications of stochastic calculus methods and takes readers to the technical level required in research and sophisticated modelling.This second edition contains a new chapter on bonds, interest rates and their options. New materials include more worked out examples in all chapters, best estimators, more results on change of time, change of measure, random measures, new results on exotic options, FX options, stochastic and implied volatility, models of the age-dependent branching process and the stochastic Lotka-Volterra model in biology, non-linear filtering in engineering and five new figures.Instructors can obtain slides of the text from the author.

Author : Suresh P. Sethi,Qing Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461202851

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Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems by Suresh P. Sethi,Qing Zhang Pdf

One of the most important methods in dealing with the optimization of large, complex systems is that of hierarchical decomposition. The idea is to reduce the overall complex problem into manageable approximate problems or subproblems, to solve these problems, and to construct a solution of the original problem from the solutions of these simpler prob lems. Development of such approaches for large complex systems has been identified as a particularly fruitful area by the Committee on the Next Decade in Operations Research (1988) [42] as well as by the Panel on Future Directions in Control Theory (1988) [65]. Most manufacturing firms are complex systems characterized by sev eral decision subsystems, such as finance, personnel, marketing, and op erations. They may have several plants and warehouses and a wide variety of machines and equipment devoted to producing a large number of different products. Moreover, they are subject to deterministic as well as stochastic discrete events, such as purchasing new equipment, hiring and layoff of personnel, and machine setups, failures, and repairs.

Author : Claudia Prévôt,Michael Röckner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540707813

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A Concise Course on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations by Claudia Prévôt,Michael Röckner Pdf

These lectures concentrate on (nonlinear) stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) of evolutionary type. There are three approaches to analyze SPDE: the "martingale measure approach", the "mild solution approach" and the "variational approach". The purpose of these notes is to give a concise and as self-contained as possible an introduction to the "variational approach". A large part of necessary background material is included in appendices.

Author : Radek Erban,S. Jonathan Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781108498128

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Stochastic Modelling of Reaction-Diffusion Processes by Radek Erban,S. Jonathan Chapman Pdf

Practical introduction for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students of applied mathematics, developed at the University of Oxford.

Author : David Applebaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781139477987

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Lévy Processes and Stochastic Calculus by David Applebaum Pdf

Lévy processes form a wide and rich class of random process, and have many applications ranging from physics to finance. Stochastic calculus is the mathematics of systems interacting with random noise. Here, the author ties these two subjects together, beginning with an introduction to the general theory of Lévy processes, then leading on to develop the stochastic calculus for Lévy processes in a direct and accessible way. This fully revised edition now features a number of new topics. These include: regular variation and subexponential distributions; necessary and sufficient conditions for Lévy processes to have finite moments; characterisation of Lévy processes with finite variation; Kunita's estimates for moments of Lévy type stochastic integrals; new proofs of Ito representation and martingale representation theorems for general Lévy processes; multiple Wiener-Lévy integrals and chaos decomposition; an introduction to Malliavin calculus; an introduction to stability theory for Lévy-driven SDEs.

Author : Marek Capiński,Ekkehard Kopp,Janusz Traple
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107002647

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Stochastic Calculus for Finance by Marek Capiński,Ekkehard Kopp,Janusz Traple Pdf

This book introduces key results essential for financial practitioners by means of concrete examples and a fully rigorous exposition.