A news-breaking account of the global stock market's
subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"-
artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in
milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the
humans who've created them.
How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking
in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes. Their customers were
lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist
Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.
From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and
The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at
mathematics that reveals a hidden world in some of its most
fundamental concepts.
In his latest foray into mathematics, David Berlinski takes on the
simplest questions that can be asked.
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most
powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to
re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the
French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions
that existed some 13.
