This volume completes the English adaptation of a classical Russian textbook in elementary Euclidean geometry. The 1st volume subtitled "Book I. Planimetry" was published in 2006 (ISBN 0977985202). This 2nd volume (Book II. Stereometry) covers solid geometry, and contains a chapter on vectors, foundations, and introduction in non-Euclidean geometry added by the translator. The book intended for high-school and college students, and their teachers. Includes 317 exercises, index, and bibliography.

"The work of Marek Kuźniak offers a discussion situated mainly in the discourse of the philosophy of mind and partly cognitive science. The book is very interesting, controversial and has the potential to resonate in the circles of language theoreticians and philosophers". -Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland For many readers, this monograph may become the beginning of a fascinating journey to the mathematical origins of modern science. The Geometry of Choice can also be seen as another chapter in the history of the "linguistics wars": a bold, albeit controversial attempt to embed the cognitive and social sciences in Neoplatonic philosophy". -Agnieszka Libura, University of Wrocław, Poland "The book is a welcome attempt that offers hope that cognitive-linguistic tools may be profitably employed to shed light on the human condition. I recommend this book in the belief that it will contribute to the debate concerning the potential of cognitive-linguistic methodology in the humanities and social sciences". -Andrzej Pawelec, Jagiellonian University, Poland "How do human beings choose? Science scarcely knows. How do human beings conceive of choice? That is a question this work takes up, provocatively, and with many challenges for those who ask this question". -Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decision-making process, using the metaphor of CHOICE AS CUBE. The areas of key interest are language, culture, and education as forms of social organization. This book addresses issues relevant to a number of fields, including social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy, culture and education studies, and will be of interest to readers in these and related disciplines. Marek Kuźniak is a Professor of Linguistics at Wrocław University, Poland. He is the author of books and articles in cognitive linguistics, legal translation, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. He is a member of numerous Polish and international associations, including the Polish Linguistic Association, Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Linguistic Society of America, and Societas Linguistica Europaea.

Analysis, Geometry, and Modeling in Finance: Advanced Methods in Option Pricing is the first book that applies advanced analytical and geometrical methods used in physics and mathematics to the financial field. It even obtains new results when only approximate and partial solutions were previously available.Through the problem of option pricing, th

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gärdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches. Symbolic representation is particularly weak at modeling concept learning, which is paramount for understanding many cognitive phenomena. Concept learning is closely tied to the notion of similarity, which is also poorly served by the symbolic approach. Gärdenfors's theory of conceptual spaces presents a framework for representing information on the conceptual level. A conceptual space is built up from geometrical structures based on a number of quality dimensions. The main applications of the theory are on the constructive side of cognitive science: as a constructive model the theory can be applied to the development of artificial systems capable of solving cognitive tasks. Gärdenfors also shows how conceptual spaces can serve as an explanatory framework for a number of empirical theories, in particular those concerning concept formation, induction, and semantics. His aim is to present a coherent research program that can be used as a basis for more detailed investigations.

The Geometry of Desert explores the hidden complexity of moral desert. Using graphs to illustrate and contrast alternative views, it carefully investigates the various ways in which the value of an outcome varies when people get (or fail to get) what they deserve.

This lavishly illustrated book provides an unusually accessible approach to geometry by placing it in historical context. With concise discussions and carefully chosen illustrations the author brings the material to life by showing what problems motivated early geometers throughout the world. Geometry Civilized covers classical plane geometry, emphasizing the methods of Euclid but also drawing on advances made in China and India. It includes a wide range of problems, solutions, and illustrations, as well as a chapter on trigonometry, and prepares its readers for the study of solid geometry and conic sections.