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Statistics in Spectroscopy, Second Edition, is an expanded and updated version of the original title. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the average chemist/spectroscopist and the study of statistics. This second edition differs from the first in that expanded chapters are incorporated to highlight the relationship between elementary statistics and the more advanced concepts of chemometrics.
The book introduces the novice reader to the ideas and concepts of statistics and uses spectroscopic examples to show how these concepts are applied. The advent of instrumentation and methods of data analysis based on multivariate mathematics has created a need to introduce the non-statitician to the ideas, concepts and thought processes of statistics and statisticians. Several key statistical concepts are introduced through the use of computer programs. The new sections on chemometrics include an exercise showing that there is a deep and fundamental connection between the two, supposedly different, disciplines of statistics and chemometrics.
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Since the publication of "Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics", spectral methods, particularly in their multidomain version, have become firmly established as a mainstream tool for scientific and engineering computation. While retaining the tight integration between the theoretical and practical aspects of spectral methods that was the hallmark of the earlier book, Canuto et al. now incorporate the many improvements in the algorithms and the theory of spectral methods that have been made since 1988. The initial treatment Fundamentals in Single Domains discusses the fundamentals of the approximation of solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations on single domains by expansions in smooth, global basis functions. The first half of the book provides the algorithmic details of orthogonal expansions, transform methods, spectral discretization of differential equations plus their boundary conditions, and solution of the discretized equations by direct and iterative methods. The second half furnishes a comprehensive discussion of the mathematical theory of spectral methods on single domains, including approximation theory, stability and convergence, and illustrative applications of the theory to model boundary-value problems. Both the algorithmic and theoretical discussions cover spectral methods on tensor-product domains, triangles and tetrahedra. All chapters are enhanced with material on the Galerkin with numerical integration version of spectral methods. The discussion of direct and iterative solution methods is greatly expanded as are the set of numerical examples that illustrate the key properties of the various types of spectral approximations and the solution algorithms.
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Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this text offers detailed considerations of general theorems, conservation equations, waves, shocks, and nonisentropic flows, with emphasis on the basics, both conceptual and mathematical. The general theory of characteristics receives a remarkably complete and simple treatment, with detailed applications. 175 figures. 1958 edition.
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical theory of compressible flow, describing both inviscid and viscous compressible flow, which are governed by the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations respectively. The method of presentation allows readers with different backgrounds to focus on various modules of the material, either in part or more fully. Chapters include detailed heuristic arguments providing motivation for technical aspects that are rigorously presented later on in the text; for instance, the existence theory for steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations of isentropic compressible flow, and two-by-two systems of Euler equations in one space dimension. These parts are presented in a textbook style with auxiliary material in supporting sections and appendices. The book includes a rich index and extensive bibliography, thus allowing for quick orientation among the vast collection of literature on the mathematical theory of compressible flow, as well as in the book itself.
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Young Harvey Cheyne is rich, spoiled, prejudiced, and totally lacking in the real experiences of life. When the fifteen-year-old is accidentally washed overboard a great ocean liner headed for Europe, he is picked up by a fisherman and brought aboard the fishing schooner We're Here. Harvey's stories of privilege and wealth mean nothing aboard this hard-working vessel, and the boy receives many lessons in self-reliance, values, and hard-bitten reality - "things every man must know, blind, drunk, or asleep" - in the words of Long Jack.
Harvey, Long Jack, Tom Platt, Manuel, and many more great characters come alive in this rich retelling of life aboard the We're Here.
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his band on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. That was magnificent, in spite of Disko saying that it would break a snake's back to follow his wake. But, as usual, pride ran before a fall.
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No courage needed for this pleasant read.......2007-08-08
When I started this book, I couldn't help but make some comparisons to Jack London's, Sea Wolf. The protagonist is picked up by a boat at sea and wants to be dropped off on shore, but the captain refuses and, instead, solicits his help on the ship's voyage, hoping to teach him something about real work along the way. And right about there the two novels diverge. While Jack London's, Sea Wolf goes through an increasingly complicated plot and conflict, Rudyard Kipling's, Captains Courageous simply lets us in on the cruise. Though they take two very different courses, I think that they both succeeded in their separate endeavors. Kipling relies on his description and scenes to set the story before us, and he achieves this masterfully. Describing life on board a fishing vessel could very easily turn out to be tedious, but Kipling uses such nice language and great characters that you almost feel as if you are there experiencing it with them, through the good and the bad. The ending is hardly surprising, but more importantly it feels right. One thing to note is that, while Kipling does describe things fairly well, this is still written back in the age of sail, so many of the terms are taken for granted for someone not well versed in that era. If that is the case, the reader might feel lost for a good portion of the story. Still, the writing is pleasant enough that you almost don't need to know what is going on, you're just happy to be along for the ride.
Kipling's American Yarn.......2007-06-08
Captain's Courageous is moe than anything else a great sea going yarn from 19th century America in which Kipling captures the spirit of the New England fishermen of the era in colorful language. To those who criticize the archaic language these characters use I would argue that the language and the dialects are exactly the point. America as a melting pot where people from various backgrounds blend words and phrases and communicate with each other.
As an adventure story from the era it represents it ranks right up there with Mark Twain's work but it has something unique in that the narrative is seen through the eyes of an "outsider" , Harvey the millionaire's son who falls overboard on a cruise and is picked up by these rugged fisherman who take him in. His almost immediate recognition that something special is present in his new surroundings fill the book with a sense of wonder at the seagoing life these men live.
A quick and rewarding read. Don't let the language dissuade you, this is a true classic and should not be missed.
Captains Courageous: Kipling's American testament.......2007-02-25
Known and translated in all the world as a children's classic, Rudyard Kipling's "Captain Courageous" assumes today an unsuspected historical value. The book is surely outdated and difficult to read by the audience it has been for many years restricted to, however it has gained an "antiquarian" taste that true lovers of classical fiction greatly savor and should not be put on the shelf among the books of a long ago childhood.
"Captains Courageous" is Kipling's only entirely "American" novel. Published in 1897 (the same year Joseph Conrad produced the maritime "The Nigger of the Narcissus"), the year Kipling abandoned America where he had lived with his wife and her family for some time, it had appeared on an American journal in episodes from November 1896 to May 1897 with a dedication to James Coneland doctor, Brattleboro Vermont. James Coneland was Kipling's friend that had introduced and accompanied him in the numerous visits to Gloucester Mass, on the schooners and out at sea and had helped him gain all the information that would make the book's backbone.
The location of the story is on the Grand Banks and the title should have been "Harvey Cheyne, Banker" (the pun residing in "the banks" but also in "banker" as a boat fishing on the Great Banks) but it was changed in "Captains Courageous: A story of the Grand Banks", from the captains courageous mentioned in a `600 ballad "Marie Amberee".
Many are the novel's themes that can be found, clearly stated in Kipling's diaries and letters. There is the disappearing of innocence in a society increasingly dominated by the getting of money, the rite of passage from childhood to adulthood, the lesson of the inevitability of physical death.
The plot is well known: Harvey Cheyne a spoiled rich boy, heir of an American self-made tycoon with investment in railways and ships, falls of a liner on his way to Europe. He is rescued by the schooner "We're Here" where he finds discipline, friends and education, freedom and adventure that make him a man. When reunited with his parents he has grown up and is ready to assume his responsibilities in life.
The novel is actually built in three time spans, the opening and the closure (Harvey's trip aboard and his going overboard and his reunion with his parents) that enclose the real story that is what is taking place on the schooner "We're Here". The two opening and closing episodes are surprising and in a certain sense unbelievable. Harvey's rich and idle life in unconceivable for the crew. The reader knowns Harvey is not lying, but Disko Troop feels insulted by the insolent young boy that after having been saved actually accuses him of theft. The closing episode of Harvey's reunion with his father has us meet this kind of super-tycoon that could only be the fruit of the American economic system. Cheyne's senior immense fortune and the way is has been made is as unbelievable and fantastic as Harvey's tales. The only reality between the fantasies is the story of Harvey's permanence of the "We're Here" (intended by Kipling to mean just what it says). Actually it is the permanence on the schooner that makes him worthy of being reunited with his father and to be part of the Cheyne dynasty. Cheyne senior with his means and influence integrates the men of the "We're Here" in his own economic system, where Dan (Harvey's brother in arms during the trip) is sent toward a brilliant nautical career on Cheyne's ships and the strange prophetical black cook is appointed as Harvey's servant. Kipling probably sent him to what he thought should be a black man's destiny in those times.
"Captains Courageous" is altogether the story of the triumph of the America's hardworking and successful Calvinistic spirit. This is interpreted first by Disko Troop, the humble and brave captain of the "We're Here", and then by Cheyne senior that runs from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast to get back his lost and found offspring.
However, like in all of Kipling's best fiction the double rhythm sets up a crucial opposition that takes away the assertive value of ideologies and pedagogical intent, so "Captains Courageous" is practically the statement of the autonomy of a dream that lasts until the ship gets back to the land. On the schooner Harvey's past and future don't exist. The only existing experience is that of the voyage, searching for fish, during which he grows up not to become a tycoon but a captain courageous, brother of a small community of the little ship in the immense ocean, a ship of fools, where like in the epic Moby Dick the captain is a poor fisherman and rich and poor, wise men and fools, Irishman, preacher, Portugese and Blackman may live together.
Even if lead by men the "We're Here" obeys nature's rules. Disko Troop must think like a fish. Accepting the sea's destiny Harvey acquires a new identity, on the "We're Here" he is removed from power's cruel struggle and economic's crushing logic.
The salvation through water (baptism?) is evident throughout the book, from Harvey's fall into the sea to the final Memorial Day Ceremony when Harvey realizes he has taken the place of a young sailor who drowned "Otto Svenson, twenty years old". This is the only way Harvey can gain his social role as part of his dynasty (Cheyne = chain).
Land wins over sea, even if the sea is necessary for Harvey's growth. The sea is also menaced by the modern steam boats, like the land is eaten up by Cheyne's trains. Harvey stays on land with his hostages, the black cook and Dan to interpret his future of richness. The "We're Here" instead leaves for a new adventure that this time will have no testimonies. Kipling still hopes not only that someplace there may exist a pre-capitalistic world but also a place for experiencing an innocence of heart. Until the "We're Here" can keep on leaving not all the world must identify with Cheyne senior's logic.
Kipling's America was vast and multiracial and had many characteristics in common with India and its castes. The fascination with language that accompanied the Author throughout his life (think of "Kim") is also one of the themes of the story. The narration is constructed through a sequence of very cryptic dialogues that consent the explore the fisherman's world. At sea even though people speak different languages they understand each other perfectly, back at land they seem to speak in different idioms. Cheyne senior's functional down to earth words reduce all other languages to a babble. Even the titanic Disko almost stabbers his excuses for not having believed Harvey's story.
The language has been deemed one of the problems of modern reading of the book, but when it is read outloud it gets easier to understand. A suggestion is to watch Victor Flemings movie "Captain's Courageous", where all the dialects seem to fuse and the issue of language comprehension disappears.
I am sorry this review has turned into a small essay, but Kipling's "Captains Courageous" is still part of the perfect triad of boy's childhood "rite of passage" books together with Stevenson's "Treasure Island" and Twain's "Huckelberry Finn" written in the last decades of the Nineteenth Century. Sometimes adults rereading these milestones of their youth understand how their mythical thinking started.
Good for a Teenage Reader.......2006-03-30
Rudyard Kipling is famous as the first English winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He won that at the young age of just 42, in 1907. He had made a career as a journalist and writer working in India and England. His main strength was the short story.
The present book - a Penguin Classic - is not a literary masterpiece. This is a 200 page story aimed at a reader - who I suspect - would be a teenage boy or similar. It is a story about how a young boy, Harvey, falls overboard on an Atlantic crossing from a cruise ship that sailed from New York. He is rescued by a fishing boat that is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Most of the story - for about 125 of the 200 pages - is about Harvey and another boy, named Dan, who he meets on the fishing boat. Harvey has lead a pampered life, but undergoes some character building as a result of the accident and then his time on the fishing boat, helping catch and clean the fish.
Later, Harvey bonds with his parents.
This is not a great novel by a Nobel prize winner, and if you are expecting a masterpiece in literature you will be disappointed; but, it is a short introduction to the writing of Kipling, and most teenage readers will enjoy the book. As an adult, I thought it a bit slow in the middle, and I was not too excited about the use of so much colloquial English.
It reminds me of a "Hardy Boys" novel for teenage boys, or younger.
See the WONDERFUL (very different) 1937 movie instead ... .......2006-02-09
Sadly, this thrilling sea-yarn from 1897 is nearly unreadable today. Between the seafaring jargon - which must have delighted boys of yore - and the unfathomable dialects, it can take ages to puzzle out a page. Some of the anecdotes related by the good seamen of the schooner "We're Here," which has picked up over-privileged Harvey Cheyne when he was washed overboard from a luxury liner, I could not grasp the point or moral of. My husband has read all the Patrick O'Brian series, so I asked him to puzzle out a representative story, that of Counahan the Navigator, and after spending 15 minutes reading me a few pages aloud and filling me in on the few terms he understood, he said, "Honey, I see what you mean." One can get the general gist, but it's best to read through fast, then go back and see if any of it makes any more sense.
For example, when educated Harvey says, "Why can't we always fish from the boat instead of from the dories?" his pal Dan answers, "Allus can, till we begin to dress daown. Efter thet, the heads and offals, 'u'd scare the fish to Fundy. Boat-fishin' ain't reckoned progressive, though, unless ye know as much as dad knows. Guess we'll run aout aour trawl to-night. Harder on the back, this, than frum the dory, ain't it?"
I got my B.A. in English, and I would rather tackle Joyce's "Ulysses" than an unannotated version of this book.
So why did I bother? A few days ago, a friend showed us the DVD of the 1937 movie, starring Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore, on his big screen home theater, and it was thrilling and very moving. The movie is quite different from the book, though, but it may give some incentive to check out for oneself how Kipling crafted the story, as it did for me. But dear teachers, PLEASE, do not subject students to this particular title unless you are going to spend the semester on it and are willing to turn them off classic literature forever! (Let them read "Cannery Row" instead!)
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Captains Courageous.......2006-10-25
Captains Courageous is by Rudyard Kipling. Harvey Cheyne,Junior, is a spoiled,rich, kid who likes talking people into playing poker. One day, he asked for a cigar from a German on ship, and he started feeling seasick and the people laughed as he said he was going outside for air. A sailor bumped into him and that knocked him over board. He was picked up by a portuegese called Manuel. As he was cleaned up and taken care of, later he met Captain Disko Troop and his son Dan. Read this book on a rainy day and trust me,you couldn't possibley put it down.
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