1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBVAN0065140

Autore

Mitzenmacher, Michael

Titolo

Probability and computing : randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis / Michael Mitzenmacher, Eli Upfal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University, 2005

ISBN

978-05-218-3540-4

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 352 p. ; 27 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Upfal, Eli

Soggetti

60-XX - Probability theory and stochastic processes [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970551103321

Autore

Munro Ian <1967->

Titolo

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London : The City and its Double / / by I. Munro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611364168

9781281364166

1281364169

9781403978738

1403978735

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 255 p.)

Collana

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700, , 2634-5900

Disciplina

820.9/32421

Soggetti

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Social history

Civilization - History

Culture - Study and teaching

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Social History

Cultural History

Cultural Studies



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern  London -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Crowded Spaces -- 1 Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theater -- 2 London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd -- 3 "Shakespeare's London": the Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII -- 4 Distracted Multitude: The Theater and The Many-Headed Monster -- 5 "Rome, ETC.": Sejanus, Julius Caesar, and the Prodigious City -- 6 "A Kind of Nothing": Plague Time in Early Modern London -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy.