In this penetrating analysis of one of the most crucial questions of modern time, the author, a leading scholar in the field, reviews the history of world population growth and appraises what is known about its future.
Experts illuminate the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education, discussing the importance and difficulties not only of expanding access to education and but also of improving the quality of education. Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, ...
Why we need true reform and how it can finally be achieved "American politics has become an arms race, with money doing the work of missiles. One side escalates and the other follows suit. As the spiral grows it is undermining the soul of democracy. But here's the good news: the majority of Americans want a new system of campaign finance. Every ...
What is the minimum dimension of a niche space necessary to represent the overlaps among observed niches? This book presents a new technique for obtaining a partial answer to this elementary question about niche space. The author bases his technique on a relation between the combinatorial structure of food webs and the mathematical theory of ...
This volume presents a rigorous account of quantitative forecasting efforts that led to the successful resolution of the Johns-Manville asbestos litigation. This case, taking 12 years to reach settlement, may generate over one million claims at a total nominal value of tens of billions of dollars. The forecasting task, to project the number, ...
Focuses on generalizing the notion of variation in a set of numbers to the notion of variation in a set of probability distributions. The work collects known ways of comparing stochastic matrices, and then generalizes these, and establishes the relations of implication or equivalence among some.
"Elaine Scarry's consistently radical way of posing essential questions redirects inquiry in the most valuable ways, a tribute to a disciplined and erudite imagination put almost exclusively at the service of democratic citizenship in American society." --Richard Falk Through a minute-by-minute analysis of the phone calls, official reports, ...
These twenty-six expository papers on random matrices and products of random matrices survey the major results of the last thirty years. They reflect both theoretical and applied concerns in fields as diverse as computer science, probability theory, mathematical physics, and population biology. Many of the articles are tutorial, consisting of ...
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