Author: University of EdinburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Covers arts, divinity and law.
University of Edinburgh
Author: Robert D. AndersonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474463932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white, this is a book for everyone concerned with the university or the city of Edinburgh to read and enjoy. The authors consider the impacts of Reformation, Union with England, Enlightenment, and scientific and industrial revolutions. They show the university rising to the challenge of competition from Europe, describe the great periods of expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and chart the university's building from Old College to George Square. They explore its tense relationship with the city, explore the histories of student outrage and unrest, recall the days when blasphemy could be punished by death, and reveal that the university's department of anatomy once supported a thriving trade in body-snatching. Upheaval and crisis, triumph and achievement succeed each other by turns in a story that is entertaining, intriguing and surprising - and always interesting.
History of the University of Edinburgh from Its Foundation
Author: Andrew DalzelHistory of the University of Edinburgh from its Foundation
Author: Andrew DalzelPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375033079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
History of the University of Edinburgh [ed. by D. Laing
Author: Andrew DalzelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Game Theory and Strategy
Author: Philip D. StraffinPublisher: American Mathematical Society
ISBN: 1470471965
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is an introduction to mathematical game theory, which might better be called the mathematical theory of conflict and cooperation. It is applicable whenever two individuals—or companies, or political parties, or nations—confront situations where the outcome for each depends on the behavior of all. What are the best strategies in such situations? If there are chances of cooperation, with whom should you cooperate, and how should you share the proceeds of cooperation? Since its creation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, game theory has shed new light on business, politics, economics, social psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. In this book, its fundamental ideas are developed with mathematics at the level of high school algebra and applied to many of these fields (see the table of contents). Ideas like “fairness” are presented via axioms that fair allocations should satisfy; thus the reader is introduced to axiomatic thinking as well as to mathematical modeling of actual situations.
Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland
Author: Robert AndersonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748679170
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This book investigates the origins and evolution of the main institutions of Scottish education, bringing together a range of scholars, each an expert on his or her own period, and with interests including - but also ranging beyond - the history of educat
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
Author: Ian HackingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521775014
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.
Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and the Body
Author: Patrick McMurrayPublisher: Fortress Academic
ISBN: 9781978712799
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"In this book, Patrick McMurray argues that Paul invokes sacrifice in Romans 12:1 to construct a new brotherhood with Christ and therefore gentile membership of Abraham's lineage as brothers alongside the Israelites. God's promise, requiring ethnic plurality, is thereby fulfilled, and their consequent spiritual transformation also fulfills the law"--
The University and the City
Author: Thomas BenderPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195067754
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over the centuries, Bender provides a novel perspective on the history of both universities and cities. The theme is pursued in studies of Bologna, Paris, Florence, Leiden, Geneva, Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Chicago, and New York by several distinguished scholars, including Gene Brucker, Carl Schorske, Edward Shils, Martin Jay, and Nathan Glazer.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Society of EdinburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
List of fellows for 1908- in v. 25.