1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455548203321

Autore

Finlayson Clive <1955->

Titolo

The humans who went extinct [[electronic resource] ] : why Neanderthals died out and we survived / / Clive Finlayson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-34654-7

9786612346545

0-19-157117-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

303.4

569.986

Soggetti

Neanderthals

Human evolution

Social evolution

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue : when climate changed the course of history -- The road to extinction is paved with good intentions -- Once we were not alone -- Failed experiments -- Stick to what you know best -- Being in the right place at the right time -- If only . . . -- Africa in Europe : a Mediterranean serengeti -- One small step for man . . . -- Forever opportunists -- The pawn turned player -- Epilogue : children of chance.

Sommario/riassunto

Neanderthals, no less than another kind of human, almost made it, finally dying out just 28,000 years ago. What caused us to survive while they went extinct? Ecology holds the clues, argues Clive Finlayson. It comes down to climate change & chance. There was little in it, & things could have turned out quite differently.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466086103316

Titolo

Automated Deduction in Geometry [[electronic resource] ] : International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry, Toulouse, France, September 27-29, 1996, Selected Papers / / edited by Dongming Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997

ISBN

3-540-69717-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1997.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 240 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 1360

Disciplina

516/.00285

Soggetti

Computers

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Artificial intelligence

Mathematical logic

Computer graphics

Algorithms

Theory of Computation

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Artificial Intelligence

Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Computer Graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Automated geometric reasoning: Dixon resultants, Gröbner bases, and characteristic sets -- Extended Dixon's resultant and its applications -- Computational geometry problems in REDLOG -- Probabilistic verification of elementary geometry statements -- Computational synthetic geometry with Clifford algebra -- Clifford algebraic calculus for geometric reasoning -- Area in Grassmann geometry -- Automated production of readable proofs for theorems in non-Euclidean geometries -- Points on algebraic curves and the parametrization problem -- Flat central configurations of four planet motions -- Integration of reasoning and algebraic calculus in geometry.



Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry, held in Toulouse, France, in September 1996. The revised extended papers accepted for inclusion in the volume were selected on the basis of double reviewing. Among the topics covered are automated geometric reasoning and the deduction applied to Dixon resultants, Gröbner bases, characteristic sets, computational geometry, algebraic geometry, and planet motion; furthermore the system REDLOG is demonstrated and the verification of geometric statements as well as the automated production of proof in Euclidean Geometry are present.

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00184141

Autore

FLORI, Jean

Titolo

L'essor de la chevalerie : XI-XII siècles / Jean Flori

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genève, : Libraire Droz, 1986 - viii, 404 p. ; 22 cm.

Disciplina

357.109

Soggetti

Cavalleria - Storia - Medioevo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia