Translating Culture: Перевод и межкультурная коммуникация: Этап 1: Уровень словаПредлагаемый курс предназначен для начинающих переводчиков и меет чисто практическую направленность. В учебном пособии рассматриваются практические проблемы перевода, главным образом связанные с семантикой слова, т.е. адекватной передачей компонентов его денотативного и коннотативного значений. Данное учебное пособие написано на основе курса перевода, проведенного автором в Университете Флориды.
Contains recent ideas and results in three areas of growing importance in curve and surface design: algebraic methods, variational surface design, and some special applications. Leading researchers from throughout the world have contributed their latest work and provided several promising solutions to open issues in surface modeling.
Pitman's Measure of Closeness: A Comparison of Statistical Estimators
Pitman's Measure of Closeness (PMC) is simply an idea whose time has come. Certainly there are many different ways to estimate unknown parameters, but which method should you use? Posed as an alternative to the concept of mean-squared-error, PMC is based on the probabilities of the closeness of competing estimators to an unknown parameter.
This supplement focuses on contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. Some of important writers from the past have already attracted a good deal of sustained attention, and their work is often taught in college courses, but for various reasons their careers have not yet been discussed in American Writers. The poets included here are well known in the poetry world, and their work has in each case been honored with major literary prizes.
Luck, Logic, and White Lies: The Mathematics of Games
The mathematical underpinnings of games, whether they are strategic or games of chance, have been known for centuries, but are usually only understood by players and aficionados who have a background in mathematics. The author has succeeded in making that knowledge accessible, entertaining, and useful to everyone who likes to play and win.
