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From the page: "The focus of this course is on numerical linear algebra and numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations. Topics include linear systems of equations, least square problems, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems."

From the page: "The book's Malthusian predictions invite no less compassion than its economic forecasts. Overpopulation, Galeano maintains, will mean that "in the year 2000 there will be 650 million Latin Americans," the implication being that the region will starve. In 2000, the region's population was 30 percent smaller than the author predicted."

From the page: "The theory that government is and should be a contest among alliances of special interests has swept the day. Of course groups struggle to grab and exploit levers of power for selfish ends and then use these to the maximum, and of course agency and congressional staff ally with one or another of these mercenary armies while in government, and of course they then go to work for the interests they used to "govern"� (wink, wink), and so what? Do you have a point here?"

From the page: "Hitchings cites the 1605 text A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, in Antiquities by Richard Verstegan, who "vigorously promoted Anglo-Saxon words and customs, and complained that his countrymen had lately borrowed so many terms from Latin, French and other tongues that English was 'of itselfe no language at all, but the scum of many languages.'

Well, it may be scum, but it's our scum. The Secret Life of Words offers entertaining proof that no matter the epoch, and no matter how loudly the grammar mavens may protest, an English speaker can expect to see new words impact their language."

From the page: "Poe also hated Transcendentalists and literary Bostonians, because, "self-bepuffed", they praised one another's work. He began his review of one much hyped novel, "For the sake of everything puffed, puffing and puffable, let us take a peep at its contents!"� As Poe saw it, he was the nation's only real critic; everyone else was just a puffer. If Rufus Griswold's correspondence is any measure, Poe was right. A testy Griswold once wrote a publisher, "I puff your books, you know, without any regard to their quality." "

From the page: "This paper examines a unique natural experiment where Sydney residents turned off lights and electrical appliances for one hour. While polls reported 57% of Sydney participated, statewide electricity use declined by 2.10%, statistically indistinguishable from zero. This indicates that discretionary household electricity use like lighting forms only a small component of total electricity consumption, and policies targeting such use may be of limited impact."

From the page: "The average American produces about 20 tons of the major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. That might sound like a lot -- and Americans do have among the biggest carbon footprints in the world -- but the entire world emits around 27 billion tons of CO2 each year, through transportation, electricity use, deforestation."

From the page: "Dyson took comfort in climbing tall trees, reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,� which gave him a first sense of America as a more exciting place where all sorts of weird things could happen,� and Jules Verne's comic science-fiction descriptions of more crazy Americans� bound for the moon. His primary consolation, however, was the science society he founded with a few friends. Dyson would later reflect that from then on he saw science as "a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.�"