1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810134303321

Autore

Taws Richard <1977->

Titolo

The politics of the provisional : art and ephemera in revolutionary France / / Richard Taws

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-271-06190-1

0-271-06191-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

701.03094409033

Soggetti

Art and popular culture - France - History - 18th century

Art - Political aspects - France - History - 18th century

France History Revolution, 1789-1799

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

""COVER Front""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes to Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: MADE OF MONEY: TRANSPARENT BODIES, AUTHENTIC VALUES, PAPER SIGNS""; ""Notes to Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2: BETWEEN STATES: PASSPORTS, CERTIFICATES, AND CITIZENS""; ""Notes to Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3: REVOLUTIONARY MODELS / MODEL REVOLUTIONARIES: ARCHITECTURE, PRINT, AND PARTICIPATION AT THE FESTIVALOF THE FEDERATION""; ""Notes to Chapter 3""

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines how ephemeral images and objects made in 1790s France mediated the memory of the French Revolution and enabled new forms of political subjectivity"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828406503321

Autore

Balbaert Ivo

Titolo

Getting started with Julia programming : enter the exciting world of Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing / / Ivo Balbaert ; commissioning editor Kevin Colaco ; content development editor Neeshma Ramakrishnan ; copy editor Rashmi Sawant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, England ; ; Mumbai, [India] : , : Packt Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78328-480-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Community Experience Distilled

Disciplina

001.6420151

Soggetti

Numerical analysis - Computer programs

Mathematical analysis - Computer programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; The Rationale for Julia; Chapter 1: Installing the Julia Platform; Installing Julia; Windows version - usable from Windows XP SP2 onwards; Ubuntu version; OS X; Building from source; Working with Julia's shell; Startup options and Julia scripts; Packages; Adding a new package; Installing and working with Julia Studio; Installing and working with IJulia; Installing Sublime-IJulia; Installing Juno; Other editors and IDEs; How Julia works; Summary

Chapter 2: Variables, Types, and OperationsVariables, naming conventions, and comments; Types; Integers; Floating point numbers; Elementary mathematical functions and operations; Rational and complex numbers; Characters; Strings; Formatting numbers and strings; Regular expressions; Ranges and arrays; Other ways to create arrays; Some common functions for arrays; How to convert an array of chars to a string; Dates and times; Scope and constants; Summary; Chapter 3: Functions; Defining functions; Optional and keyword arguments; Anonymous functions; First-class functions and closures

Recursive functionsMap, filter, and list comprehensions; Generic functions and multiple dispatch; Summary; Chapter 4: Control Flow; Conditional evaluation; Repeated evaluation; The for loop; The while



loop; The break statement; The continue statement; Exception handling; Scope revisited; Tasks; Summary; Chapter 5: Collection Types; Matrices; Tuples; Dictionaries; Keys and values - looping; Sets; Making a set of tuples; Example project - word frequency; Summary; Chapter 6: More on Types, Methods, and Modules; Type annotations and conversions; Type conversions and promotions

The type hierarchy - subtypes and supertypesConcrete and abstract types; User-defined and composite types; When are two values or objects equal or identical?; Multiple dispatch example; Types and collections - inner constructors; Type unions; Parametric types and methods; Standard modules and paths; Summary; Chapter 7: Metaprogramming in Julia; Expressions and symbols; Eval and interpolation; Defining macros; Built-in macros; Testing; Debugging; Benchmarking; Starting a task; Reflection capabilities; Summary; Chapter 8: I/O, Networking, and Parallel Computing; Basic input and output

Working with filesReading and writing CSV files; Using DataFrames; Other file formats; Working with TCP sockets and servers; Interacting with databases; Parallel operations and computing; Creating processes; Using low-level communications; Parallel loops and maps; Distributed arrays; Summary; Chapter 9: Running External Programs; Running shell commands; Interpolation; Pipelining; Calling C and FORTRAN; Calling Python; Performance tips; Tools to use; Summary; Chapter 10: The Standard Library and Packages; Digging deeper into the standard library; Julia's package manager

Installing and updating packages

Sommario/riassunto

This book is for you if you are a data scientist or working on any technical or scientific computation projects. The book assumes you have a basic working knowledge of high-level dynamic languages such as MATLAB, R, Python, or Ruby.