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The book is an introductory textbook mainly for students of computer science and mathematics. Our guiding phrase is "what every theoretical computer scientist should know about linear programming". A major focus is on applications of linear programming, both in practice and in theory. The book is concise, but at the same time, the main results are covered with complete proofs and in sufficient detail, ready for presentation in class. The book does not require more prerequisites than basic linear algebra, which is summarized in an appendix. One of its main goals is to help the reader to see linear programming "behind the scenes".

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Ralph Warner, Toni Ihara, Frederick Hertz

"Living together out of wedlock can mean anything, especially in court -- unlike married couples, most unmarried couples don't automatically inherit or receive protection under the law. Consequently, you must document everything from property ownership and children to wills and other estate plans. An essential resource for any unmarried couple, Living Together explains:. the legality of living together. having and raising children. the many types of ownership agreements. relationships with a prior family. getting authorization to make medical decisions for an ill or injured partner Living Together includes:. a complete overview of important legal documents, including a living together contract. instructions to filling out these documents. sample forms. legal agreements This edition provides the latest law in readable 50-state charts. It also discusses the laws covering same-sex marriages and civil unions, which are often so broad, they affect unmarried heterosexual couples as well.This book is completely updated for 2013, with the latest laws affecting unmarried people in a wide variety of areas--family law, debt and credit, real estate, taxes, medical care, insurance, estate planning, and more. -- Download forms for book at nolo.com"-- "Living Together explains: - the legality of living together - having and raising children - the many types of ownership agreements"--

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Sheldon M. Ross

"Ross's classic bestseller, Introduction to Probability Models, has been used extensively by professors as the primary text for a first undergraduate course in applied probability. It provides an Introduction to elementary probability theory and stochastic processes, and shows how probability theory can be applied to the study of phenomena in fields such as engineering, computer science, management science, the physical and social sciences, and operations research. With the addition of several new sections relating to actuaries, this text is highly recommended by the Society of Actuaries. The tenth edition contains several sections covered in the new exams."--Jacket.

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Marc Yor

These notes represent approximately the second half of lectures given by the author at ETH in a Nachdiplom course (winter term 1991-92), followed by six lectures in November and December 1993. They are organized in nine chapters, six of which are devoted to - expansion of filtration formulae, - Burkholder-Gundy inequalities up to any random time, - martingales which vanish on the zero set of Brownian motion, - the Azéma-Emery martingales and chaos representation, - the filtration of truncated Brownian motion, - attempts to characterize the Brownian filtration. The three remaining chapters concern principal value of diffusion local times, probabilistic representations of the Riemann zeta function, and progress made on some topics discussed in Part I. Most of the contents of this book are the objects of active research, centered on real-valued martingales and Brownian motion. This volume may be of interest to researchers either in probability theory or in more applied fields, such as mathematical finance.