Product Description: This book explains why the World Bank's commitment to education is important. It considers how the nature of the Bank as a financial institution has shaped its view of economic growth, development and poverty reduction. In shaping its education policies and programs from a banking point of view, a particular World Bank approach to educational development has emerged, with major implications for the future of education worldwide...read more

Product Description: Just 23 years ago Benoit Mandelbrot published his famous picture of the Mandelbrot set, but that picture has changed our view of the mathematical and physical universe. In this text, Mandelbrot offers 25 papers from the past 25 years, many related to the famous inkblot figure...read more

Product Description: In this textbook the authors present an accessible introduction to stochastic processes for students in courses that have substantial mathematics or statistics content. It assumes that students have completed the usual first-year methods courses in calculus, differential equations and linear algebra, as well as an introductory course in probability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)