Handbook of Inorganic Electrochemistry, Volume VIII

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This eight-volume set provides the electrochemical behaviors of inorganic substances, including the complexes of metal ions with organic ligands. Elements are presented in alphabetical order according to their chemical symbols. The primary table in each volume fives information on the electrochemical behaviors, ions, and compounds in various forms. Twelve other tables provide data on structural formulas, courses and mechanisms of half-reactions, stability constants of complexes, substitution-inert compounds, non-metallic compounds and elements, stripping voltammetry, ligands and constituents of supporting electrolytes, supporting electrolytes, solvents, techniques, and indicator electrodes.

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"Working problems,"writes Fuzhen Zhang in the preface, "is a crucial part of learning mathematics. A good problem should be one through which one learns methods, uses techniques, and gains insights into the subject. The reader should find the collection of 200 problems in this book diverse, interesting, and challenging."

Linear Algebra: Challenging Problems for Students is a supplementary text for undergraduate and first-year graduate students majoring in mathematics, statistics, engineering, or related areas. The book will also be helpful for instructors teaching linear algebra and matrix theory. Based on the author's ten years' experience in teaching and research, it presents 200 problems of varying difficulty ranging from elementary to some which may baffle even professional mathematicians. Hints and solutions for all problems are found in the second half of the book.

Concise and clearly written, the problems in Linear Algebra are interesting, challenging, and up-to-date. This book will be of interest to students seeking to do further work in linear algebra on an independent basis, to those wishing to refresh their knowledge of the subject, and to those in seminar-style advanced linear algebra courses.

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Typical problems for final exams.......2006-02-23

I found many of the elementary to advanced Linear Algebra final exam problems my school professors gave are contained in the book! Wanna a harder version? try Prasolov's; a more entertaining one? go for Halmos; a comprehensive one? try Proskuryakov. Some of the problems in Proskuryakov are Putnam like. Virtually any type of Putnam taste problems in Linear Algebra can be found in Proskuryakov. But this one, contrast to Halmos', is the least entertaining--that's why it is called HARDCORE PROBLEM APPROACH! These three are basically all that you need for an undergraduat or beginning grad linear algebra courses.

A good source of simple theoretical problems.......2005-12-09

Teachers of college mathematics are always long on stress and short on time. Exams come at regular intervals and finding the right problems to put on them is always a challenge. This is especially true for courses based on theory rather than algorithm execution. I have always found it easy to write exams in courses such as calculus, algebra and statistics, but find myself spending a lot of time creating the exams for courses such as linear and abstract algebra.
This book contains 200 problems and they are split into the following five categories:

1) Vector spaces
2) Determinants, inverses, rank and linear equations.
3) Matrices, linear transformations and eigenvalues.
4) Special matrices: Hadamard, Hermitian, Unitary, Normal and Permutation.
5) Inner product spaces.

While the problems are challenging, they are not unduly so and generally are within the range of what can be offered to your more talented students. Detailed hints to all of the problems are included.
If you are looking for problems to illustrate specific theoretical topics in linear algebra or need ideas for test problems, then this book is a resource that you should take a long look at. I am sure you will find something of value.

An attractive supplement.......2000-08-16

Although the subtitle of the collection is "Challenging Problems for Students," a fair number of the problems are not difficult or tricky, but do a wonderful job of testing a student's understanding of the major concepts and techniques of elementary linear algebra. Not all of the problems are original, but they are all instructive and interesting. One of my favorites gives a product AB of a 3 x 2 and 2 x 3 matrix and asks for the product BA. The hints and solutions are clear and concise. I particularly appreciated the attractive layout of this text. Notation is chosen carefully, and everything from font size to spacing of text and the display of complex expressions seems to have been considered with utmost concern and respect for the reader. This book is a very good resource for both students and teachers of linear algebra.

Linear Algebra : Challenging Problems for Students (Johns Hopkins Studies in the Mathematical Sciences)

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Linear Algebra : Challenging Problems for Students (Johns Hopkins Studies in the Mathematical Sciences)
Fuzhen Zhang
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Linear Algebra: Challenging Problems for Students
Fuzhen Zhang
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When Alain-Fournier was killed in battle on the Meuse in 1914, he left behind Le Grand Meaulnes, a novel of wistful enchantment. The tale is recounted by François Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn.

After Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination--the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. "Often afterwards, when he had gone to sleep after trying desperately to recapture that beautiful image, he saw in his dreams a procession of young women who resembled her ... but not one of them was this tall slender girl." The two friends set about retracing Meaulnes's path, and their journeys take them into manhood, when Meaulnes finds at last a way to bring his quest full circle.

Alain-Fournier pairs his tightly twisting plot with a poignant nostalgia. His descriptive powers bring to the reader the sights and sounds--the icy winter winds and rattling carriage wheels--from an earlier time, all the while weaving a brilliant affirmation of loyalty and lasting friendship. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland

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A beautiful, sad, and a haunting story.......2007-09-04

"Le Grand Meaulnes" is a very beautiful but also a very sad story. It is about lost dream, ideal love, friendship, loyalty and sacrifice.

Francois met Meaulnes in a boarding school, and they became close friends. One day, the young Meaulnes lost his way during an errand and came across an old mansion where a strange wedding banquet was in progress. All the guests were waiting for the arrival of the young Frantz and his fiancée Valentine. There Meaulnes met Frantz' sister, the young and beautiful Yvonne, and since then her image was ever in his dreams. However the wedding was called off abruptly, because the young Valentine had escaped. The idea that in a day she would transform from a poor peasant's daughter to a princess had frighten her. Everything was too good for her to be true!

Hence the story becomes the struggles and pains of these two wanderers trying to find the love they had lost. Francois remained Meaulnes' best friend to the end, and they together tried every possible way to find the path leading back to the lost mansion that Meaulnes had once been. Frantz wandered around most of the Europe in an attempt to find his escaped fiancée, Valentine. Somehow Francois, Meaulnes became friends to Frantz and they vowed that they would answer to his summon for help if that happens.

The story becomes a real tragic one from there. The ending is still haunting me after I have finished the whole book. I can't help asking myself many questions. Why did Meaulnes do something that he would ultimately regret when he was in Paris? Perhaps he thought his dream had already been completely broken. Perhaps it is true that people would do something that they won't otherwise in other times when they are desperate and hopeless. But while one has the right to pursue his own happiness, why others have to pay the cost? I guess sometimes we simply just don't know the real consequences of our actions. In the moment, we just do what we ought to do, perhaps to fulfill a promise we have made, or to compensate some mistakes we have created. But then something unexpected but tragic may happen and ultimately makes our choices unredeemable. The fate of Yvonne is that tragedy in this story, but it may also be a symbolic representation of similar tragedies in our real lives. This makes this novel so haunting....

Yestercentury or Yesterday?.......2007-02-22

'The Lost Domain' is a location in which the chemistry of love stirs the imagination with both dire and life sustaining results. With the poignancy of this genre's literary decline in the last century, this domain has become self-referential. A read of this brilliant fiction will restore your hopes for the genre. It is tender and affectionate, and at times hallucinatory. The encounter with the domain recalls Hesse's, 'Steppenwolf' and his encounter with the theatre of magic. The narrator's loss when his 'visionary pathfinder', the tragic Meaulnes, is acute' for he embodies the key to an enchanted existence, and is awesome in the proper sense of the word. Frank Davison's translation brings the 1890s up close and personal. Apart from the horse travel(and one marvellous description of free-wheeling on a bicycle), the proximity of close-knit hamlets to eachother, and lamps and candle-lights, the immediacy of the place is striking. By comparison, English contemporary, Siegfried Sassoon's books place you firmly in a bygone era, perhaps as a result of his 'class' protcols. But this beautifully resolved work is free from such distinctions.

French Classic- young men coming of age.......2006-07-27

Le Grand Meaulnes is a beautifully rendered tale full of love, loss, betrayal and friendship. It is the tale of young boys at a boarding school who are coming of age and learning about all that life has to offer. It takes place in the French countryside in the 1800's. It is intriguing to watch the boys mature and take their initial steps into adulthood, from carefree days at their boarding school to emotionally intense times and lives that stretch far beyond the boundaries they had previously observed.
That the author died in action on the Meuse at the age of 27 adds a purity to this story and an authenticity that dwells in the pages of his novel. It is a joy to read.

Strange Magic.......2006-04-30

This is the only novel of a young French writer - his real name was Henri Alban - who died in the First World War at the age of twenty-seven. The narrator is a young boy, the son of a schoolmaster in provincial France in the late nineteenth century, and the story begins when a new pupil comes to the school, the extraordinary Augustin Meaulnes. Taller than the other boys, stronger, more daring, Meaulnes seems destined for adventure; and adventure soon comes when he absconds from school and discovers the mysterious "lost domain," deep in the countryside. There, guests gather for a strange and enchanting party - and Meaulnes meets the beautiful Yvonne de Galais, who is to beguile him for the rest of the book. Thus begins one of the great romantic novels of adolescence and a brilliantly magical fable, filled with mystery and longing.

A great many writers have citied this as a favourite, notably John Fowles, in the preface to the 1977 revised reissue of his novel The Magus (1965), who claims that he sought, in this justly celebrated novel about the mysterious goings-on on a Greek island, to create the same effect of enchantment achieved by Alain-Fournier. (Interestingly, Fowles says that he missed a trick: he should have made his main character a teenage boy, instead of a young schoolteacher.) In English translations, Le Grand Meaulnes (the narrator's bantering term of affection for his intrepid friend, as in "The Great Meaulnes" or "Meaulnes the Great") now usually appears under the French title, but has been known in the past as The Wanderer or, more commonly, The Lost Domain. Read it. This is a book you will never forget, once it has enchanted you with its strange magic.

The Wanderer and The Magus.......2005-12-12

I'm sorry to be one of those who saw the movie first, but I did see both The Magus and The Wanderer at the Nugget - at our college town theater in 1969. Neither have appeared on DVD, which is a shame and a mystery. When and if you get a chance to see the film versions, they will not disappoint! I actually went back the next night to see each of these films again, and now, I must sit with the books and wait.

Until reading these reviews I did not know of the connection between the two, which makes the fascination I experienced and memories kept all these years even more valid.

Perhaps a stunning Candace Bergen at age 22 would not impress you in the main role, but Anthony Quinn had what I will deem his second best role (after Zorba) as The Magus.

Another "go figure" quandary as to why magical intelligent films are not reaching the KMART crowds....

Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)

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A beautiful, sad and a haunting story
A classic of strange lands and people through a childs eye.

Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)
Henri Alain-Fournier
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A beautiful, sad and a haunting story.......2007-09-05

A classic of strange lands and people through a childs eye........1999-07-21

This book is probably one of my all time favorite reads. It's a classic in France and read mainly by younger adults/children. The story is seen from a young boys point of view and encompasses all the delights of a fairytale, from secret countryside and villages to strange travelling people and magic and romance. It is a must for anyone who like myself, dreams of forgotten hours of childhood wandering aimlessly in strange places and forgetting where you are.

The wanderer;: Or, The end of youth (Le grand Meaulnes) (A Signet classic)

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The wanderer;: Or, The end of youth (Le grand Meaulnes) (A Signet classic)
Alain-Fournier
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Le Grand Meaulnes [The Wanderer] (Livre De Poche, 1000)

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Text shows no sign of reading wear. Novel about longing and youthful love unfulfilled by Alain-Fournier (1884-1914), who published this, his only novel, a year before he was killed in World War I.

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A beautiful, sad and a haunting story
Better than Malle or Truffaut?
The Tale of a Mysterious Journey
Not as good for the middle aged

The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Alain Fournier
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A beautiful, sad and a haunting story.......2007-09-05

"Le Grand Meaulnes" (another name of the novel "The Wanderer") is a very beautiful but also a very sad story. It is about lost dream, ideal love, friendship, loyalty and sacrifice.

Francois met Meaulnes in a boarding school, and they became close friends. One day, the young Meaulnes lost his way during an errand and came across an old mansion where a strange wedding banquet was in progress. All the guests were waiting for the arrival of the young Frantz and his fiancée Valentine. There Meaulnes met Frantz' sister, the young and beautiful Yvonne, and since then her image was ever in his dreams. However the wedding was called off abruptly, because the young Valentine had escaped. The idea that in a day she would transform from a poor peasant's daughter to a princess had frighten her. Everything was too good for her to be true!

Hence the story becomes the struggles and pains of these two wanderers trying to find the love they had lost. Francois remained Meaulnes' best friend to the end, and they together tried every possible way to find the path leading back to the lost mansion that Meaulnes had once been. Frantz wandered around most of the Europe in an attempt to find his escaped fiancée, Valentine. Somehow Francois, Meaulnes became friends to Frantz and they vowed that they would answer to his summon for help if that happens.

The story becomes a real tragic one from there. The ending is still haunting me after I have finished the whole book. I can't help asking myself many questions. Why did Meaulnes do something that he would ultimately regret when he was in Paris? Perhaps he thought his dream had already been completely broken. Perhaps it is true that people would do something that they won't otherwise in other times when they are desperate and hopeless. But while one has the right to pursue his own happiness, why others have to pay the cost? I guess sometimes we simply just don't know the real consequences of our actions. In the moment, we just do what we ought to do, perhaps to fulfill a promise we have made, or to compensate some mistakes we have created. But then something unexpected but tragic may happen and ultimately makes our choices unredeemable. The fate of Yvonne is that tragedy in this story, but it may also be a symbolic representation of similar tragedies in our real lives. This makes this novel so haunting....

Better than Malle or Truffaut?.......2006-03-19

I knew this book first from the film (english subtitles) and found it even better than Malle or Truffaut at capturing young sensibilities (and yes, immaturity)... I recommend it highly and hope that it will be released on DVD...

The Tale of a Mysterious Journey.......2005-09-03

I read this book back in high school because I was intrigued by the title. I enjoyed it at the time, and through the years I always remembered it as one that really resonated with my gloomy adolescent mind.

Feeling nostalgic, I located a used copy online and read it again, trying to recapture whatever it was that had engaged me so many years before. It was interesting to see the same story after having a bit more experience of life. It was not as deep as it had initially seemed to me before, and yet I noticed and understood many nuances and details that had been opaque to my teenage mind.

The edition I bought included a short biography of the author, who was killed in WWI - this was his only book. It was interesting that the story of the lost love was based on real events in Alain Fournier's short life. It is a glimpse into just one young life that was snuffed out by war, all future promise never to be revealed. As such, it is a story which is nearly as wistful and sad as the novel itself. Just as one wonders "what could have been" if Meaulnes got the girl, so we wonder what other novels Fournier might have gone on to write, had he not been buried beneath the sod of Europe.

Not as good for the middle aged.......2004-04-04

I had to read this book in college for a German literature course - which doesn't make much sense since it was originally writen in French and takes place in France. But hey, one character does briefly go to Germany during the course of the story so maybe that was the justification.
Anyway, I have always remembered the book as being fantastic and one of the most emotionally powerful things I had ever read. So much so, that a water stained, yellowed papaerpack copy had come with me over 25 years and 10+ moves to three continents.
So finally last week, I made the time to read it again both to try to remember the specifics of what was so good and also so I could share it with my teenage daughter. Imagine my surprise to find it somewhat simplistic both in storyline and wtiting. The passion of the characters that caused them to make bad decisions in their lives must have seemed heroic to me as a 20 year old but sure seem transparently stupid to me now.
The general theme that you lose what ever you most passionately desire if you actually acheive it, does not really resonate with me now. Sometimes I find it to be true; other times not and in any case most older people don't desire things with the passion of the young.
Anyway, interesting book. Differet from most other things you might read. Worth the time; especially if you are 20 years old.

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Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier
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Release Date: 2006-09-27

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Nous habitions les bâtiments du Cour Supérieur de Sainte-Agathe. Mon père, que j’appelais M. Seurel, comme les autres élèves, y dirigeait à la fois le Cours supérieur, où l’on préparait le brevet d’instituteur, et le Cours moyen. Ma mère faisait la petite classe.

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Le grand Meaulnes
Henri-Alban Alain-Fournier
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Alain-fournier Et Le Grand Meaulnes
J. M. Delettrez
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Alain-Fournier romancier: Le grand Meaulnes (References)

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Zbigniew Naliwajek
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Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes (Critical Guides to French Texts)

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The Best Novel of the Twentieth Century
A metaphor for adulthood and the loss of innocence

Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes (Critical Guides to French Texts)
Robert Gibson
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The Best Novel of the Twentieth Century.......2000-01-20

The easy way with which the great French novelist leads the reader into a realistic mysterical world , can only be described as brilliant. The world of Meaulnes is magical, but not in the modern, cheapish, "Celestine" way. This is the quality of Alain-Fournier. Nature plays an important role in the story. The adventures of Meaulnes can not be seen apart from the beautiful woods that always surround him at his journeys. The story is told by a friend of the main character, Meaulnes.

Meaulnes tries desperately to find the girl he once saw at a medievalesque party in the middle of the forest, upon which he stumbled by coincidence. Alain Fournier manages to surround the two boys with a world that is as riddling and magical as it seems real and authentic. The quest of Meaulnes bears strong resemblances to Proust's "recherche", and is in fact a 20th century, personalized, search for the holy grail. That is not an easy theme for a first novel. As Alain-Fournier succeeded so wonderfully, one can only speculate what the world has missed - Alain-Fournier died at age 28, defending his fatherland France.

A metaphor for adulthood and the loss of innocence.......1998-07-15

In Alain-Fournier's richly written but thinly veiled book of lost innocence we can find a connection to our own lives and mourn the loss of love and innocence that we have experienced along with the characters, all the while losing ourselves in the striking language of the book.

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