In an ancient kingdom, a king asked his servant what he most desired. Sire, said the mathematician, Just place one grain of rice on a single square of a chessboard. Then fill each square by doubling the number of grains of rice for every other square. I would be content with the total sum of rice. Little did the king know, he now owed his mathematician a grand total of 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice-or more than 671 billion tons!

Presented by music theory master Eli Krantzberg, this collection of video tutorials focuses on all that is Jazz.

You know the names. You know the faces. You know the beats. You know the hooks, and you surely know the lyrics. But do you know the West Coast Theory ?

Presented by music theory master Eli Krantzberg, this collection of video tutorials focuses on all that is Jazz.

At his daughter s wedding, time-management specialist Frank Allen corners the reluctant groom and tells him a long story: about the night his wife chose him, and then, about eight years later, when a missed ferry, a corporate groupie, a panicked expectant mother, and a medical test brought Frank s marriage to a crisis. In the midst of the crisis were Frank, his wife Susan, their daughter Jesse, and Frank s best friend, the feckless Buddy. Things come to a head at a lake when Frank, armed with a shotgun, decides to cross something permanently from one of his time-management lists. Is there ever room for whim and chaos?

The debate on the reason for the Origins of Life continues. Since the Beginning of the 90?s, advocates of creationism started a new movement: Intelligent Design Theory, supported by the Discovery Institute

This book contains papers based on the fourteen lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute Information Security and Related Combinatorics , held in Opatija, Croatia, May 31 - June 11, 2010. The conference was widely attended by students and junior scientists from throughout Europe and the USA. The theme addressed by these papers is combinatorial mathematics, as used in applications related to information security, cryptography and coding theory.

This handbook is the definitive compendium of the methods, results, and current initiatives in modern set theory in all its research directions. Set theory has entered its prime as an advanced and autonomous field of mathematics with foundational significance, and the expanse and variety of this handbook attests to the richness and sophistication of the subject.