24 results for "Engineering"

Ecologies of knowledge: work and politics in science and technology

Susan Leigh Star
Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.
State University of New York Press 1995-01-01 421 pages

George Pólya - Collected Papers Location of Zeros

George Pólya
Papers on the location and behavior of zeros, including some of Polya's most influential work.The papers in this volume cluster about the following topics: the location of the zeros of polynomials and other analytic functions; the approximation of analytic functions by polynomials in which the location of zero is restricted (these papers represent some of Polya's most influential work); the behavior of the zeros of successive derivatives; the zeros of functions defined by trigonometric integrals; and the signs of derivatives and their analytic character. The volume also includes a paper that is not about zeros but contains a representation theorem for positive polynomials in several variables.
MIT Press 1974 456 pages