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Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans
  • Augustine
  • Edited by R. W. Dyson
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    24 September 1998
  • This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative, and fluent translation of De civitate dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography, and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published, of interest to students of ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought, theology, philosophy, and late antiquity.

Hobbes: Leviathan
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Edited by Richard Tuck
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    28 August 1996
  • Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been recognised as the single most accurate and authoritative text, and for this revised edition Professor Tuck has provided a much amplified and expanded introduction, which will provide students unfamiliar with Hobbes with a cogent and accessible introduction to this most challenging of texts. Other vital aids to study include an extensive guide to further reading, a note on textual matters, a chronology of important events and brief biographies of important persons mentioned in Hobbes' text.

The Presocratic Philosophers
  • A Critical History with a Selection of Texts
  • 2nd edition
  • G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    29 December 1983
  • Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide the basis for a detailed critical study of the principal individual thinkers of the time. Besides serving as an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek philosophy and in the history of science, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in philosophy, theology, the history of ideas and of the ancient world, and indeed to anyone who wants an authoritative account of the Presocratics.

Kant: Political Writings
  • 2nd edition
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Edited by H. S. Reiss
  • Translated by H. B. Nisbet
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    25 January 1991
  • The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history are included for the first time: his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of The History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History; as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliography, and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since first publication.

Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right
  • Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
  • Edited by Allen W. Wood
  • Translated by H. B. Nisbet
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    25 October 1991
  • This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements from far right to far left, and is widely perceived as central to the communication tradition in modern ethical, social and political thought. This edition includes extensive editorial material informing the reader of the historical background of Hegel's text, and explaining his allusions to Roman law and other sources, making use of lecture materials which have only recently become available. The new translation is literal, readable and consistent, and will be informative and scholarly enough to serve the needs of students and specialists alike.

Hobbes: On the Citizen
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Edited by Richard Tuck, Michael Silverthorne
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    20 August 1998
  • De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself. On the Citizen is written in a clear, straightforward, expository style, and in many ways offers students a more digestible account of Hobbes's political thought than the Leviathan itself. This new translation is both accurate and accessible, and is itself a significant scholarly event: it is accompanied by a full glossary of Latin terms, a chronology, bibliography, and an expository introduction. Throughout the editors have emphasised consistency in the translation and usage of Hobbes's basic conceptual vocabulary, respecting Hobbes's own concern for accurate definition of terms.

An Introduction to the Solar System
  • 3rd edition
  • Edited by David A. Rothery, Neil McBride, Iain Gilmour
  • Open University
  • Published online:
    11 May 2019
    Print publication:
    11 January 2018
  • Ongoing advances in Solar System exploration continue to reveal its splendour and diversity in remarkable detail. This undergraduate-level textbook presents fascinating descriptions and colour images of the bodies in the Solar System, the processes that occur upon and within them, and their origins and evolution. It highlights important concepts and techniques in boxed summaries, while questions and exercises are embedded at appropriate points throughout the text, with full solutions provided. Written and edited by a team of practising planetary scientists, this third edition has been updated to reflect our current knowledge. It is ideal for introductory courses on the subject, and is suitable for self-study. The text is supported by online resources, hosted at www.cambridge.org/solarsystem3, which include selected figures from the book, self-assessment questions and sample tutor assignments, with outlines of suggested answers.

  • Appendix B - Numerical Techniques and Computer

  • Rajesh Kumar Gupta
  • Book:
    Numerical Methods
    Published online:
    26 April 2019
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019, pp 781-782

  • Summary

    Numerical methods require tedious, cumbersome and repetitive arithmetic operations for large problems. It is almost impossible to do these cumbersome arithmetic operations manually. The development of information technology enhances the potential of these numerical techniques, and various software can handle algebra involved in these techniques in a very simple and sophisticated manner. Since most of the numerical techniques are algorithmic in nature and require repetitive cumbersome iterations, so it is practical to apply these algorithms to a computer. Of course, a computer must be given detailed and complete instructions for each step. During the formulation of any algorithm, we must keep in mind the following main features of the computer.

    i) The computer is capable of performing only the basic arithmetic operations. Hence, each problem must be reduced to problems of these arithmetic operations. Numerical techniques provide these algorithms for a wide range of problems.

    ii) The memory of the computer stores the algorithms and results of computations, and this enables the repetitive execution and results can be retrieved as per requirement.

    iii) Computer's memory facilitates the alteration in the execution of instructions depending on results obtained during the execution.

    A systematic stepwise set of instructions utilizing above features of the computer enables us to solve complicated and cumbersome problems. Our efforts aim at the search for such algorithms. We will see that for a specific type of problems, there are several algorithms (For example, to solve nonlinear equations, we can choose among various algorithms like Bisection, Regula–Falsi, Newton–Raphson, etc.). We have a lot of choices depending on our requirement for speed, accuracy, and convergence, etc. A combination of two algorithms can also be used. For example, we can find a close approximation to the root of an equation by Bisection method keeping in mind the convergence; and then continue with the Newton–Raphson method from this approximation onwards keeping in mind the speed of the method. For modest size problem, we can easily implement any algorithm with high configuration computer. But in the case of large-scale problems, slow algorithms need to be rejected.

    So far, many algorithms are developed for different kinds of problems. As we discussed above, there are so many reasons to select an algorithm over others.

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