1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910688340903321

Autore

Delagrange Susan H

Titolo

Technologies of wonder : rhetorical practice in a digital world / / Susan H. Delagrange

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University Press/ Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2011

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

9780874218718 (eBook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

E14

Soggetti

Engineering - Applied Sciences

Technology - Philosophy

Interactive multimedia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World considers the theoretical and pedagogical implications of designing academic scholarship in interactive digital media, and proposes renewed emphasis on embodied visual rhetoric and on the canon of arrangement as an active visual practice. This project uses the concept of the Wunderkammer to argue for techné and wonder as guiding principles for a revitalized visual canon of arrangement and as new models of invention and intervention in multimodal scholarly production. Technologies of Wonder also presents examples of how this rhetoric of inquiry can be applied to multimodal projects in the classroom. New digital technologies offer viable alternatives to linear, less embodied traditions of academic scholarship. Emerging at a time when academic presses are under considerable economic pressure, Technologies of Wonder also serves as a model for how rigorous intellectual projects can be published and disseminated in less costly, more accessible formats.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966748903321

Autore

Landau David P

Titolo

A guide to Monte Carlo simulations in statistical physics / / David P. Landau, Kurt Binder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-511-15122-5

0-511-04837-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BinderK <1944-> (Kurt)

Disciplina

530.13

Soggetti

Monte Carlo method

Statistical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Some necessary background; 3 Simple sampling Monte Carlo methods; 4 Importance sampling Monte Carlo methods; 5 More on importance sampling Monte Carlo methods for lattice systems; 6 Off-lattice models; 7 Reweighting methods; 8 Quantum Monte Carlo methods; 9 Monte Carlo renormalization group methods; 10 Non-equilibrium and irreversible processes; 11 Lattice gauge models: a brief introduction; 12 A brief view of other methods of computer simulation; 13 Outlook; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with all aspects of Monte Carlo simulation of complex physical systems encountered in condensed-matter physics and statistical mechanics as well as in related fields, for example polymer science and lattice gauge theory. It includes many applications, examples, and exercises throughout.