R. David Nelson was een wiskundige en academicus wiens werk zich richtte op wiskundige cognitie en de geschiedenis van de wiskunde. Door zijn universitaire loopbaan en publicaties beïnvloedde hij de ontwikkeling van wiskundig denken en onderwijs. Nelson's bijdrage lag in het toegankelijk maken van complexe wiskundige concepten en het bepleiten van hervormingen in wiskundeonderwijs. Zijn expertise kwam tot uiting in zowel zijn onderwijs als zijn uitgebreide geschriften.
The Penguin Dictionary of Statistics is an extremely useful and comprehensive guide to the subject. An ideal reference book for A-level mathematics students and undergraduates, this dictionary is also accessible to students of other disciplines (economics, geography) who regularly use statistics, and to those in the business community who want to understand the terminology. Detailed definitions are supported by diagrams and charts.
How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains
Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealized savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery of target costing, value engineering, and supplier development, but how supply chain management -- the discipline of acquiring and moving material -- has become a manufacturing company's hottest competitive weapon. Based on a survey of 247 purchasing managers and more than 1,000 hours of interviews and on-site visits, the authors have selected ten top firms whose supply management pioneers excel at twenty "best practices." With cases and stories, Nelson, Moody, and Stegner show how these leading-edge purchasing departments at American Express, SmithKline Beecham, DaimlerChrysler, Harley-Davidson, Honda of America, IBM, John Deere, Whirlpool, Flextronics, and Sun Microsystems have put into place pathbreaking processes and procedures. Here, for example, described in step-by-step detail, are Chrysler's SCORE program and Honda's strategic sourcing strategy that saved the companies billions. The book also includes a crucial section on the next stage of supplier development that will involve the sourcing and allocation of ideas as well as materials. The authors provide concrete, practical steps to improvement that any supply chain manager can take to successfully implement these best practices. The Purchasing Machine will be required reading for logistics, purchasing, and procurement managers in hundreds of thousands of companies. The authoritative nature of the authors' source material is certain to make this the single most important and practical reference on best purchasing practices for years to come.
From algebra to number theory, statistics to mechanics, this versatile and completely updated reference takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics. Features include: � More than 3,200 cross-referenced entries, supported by dozens of explanatory diagrams � Expanded, up-to-date sections on such topics as chaos, fractals, and graph theory � Biographies of more than 200 key figures in mathematics � Comprehensive coverage of subjects taught in both high school and college