Bøker av Yair Shapira

What is God?This book interprets the (Jewish) Bible not just as a religious or national book directed to Jews, but more as a personal moral guide, directed to each individual reader. This way, the Bible is viewed no longer as a metaphysical book, but more as a novel, with intimate relations with the reader. The final paragraph at the very end of the Bible says: "every man among your people, may his God be with him to rise and go back to his homeland." Here, "his God" can be seen as the private God that resides in man's heart and mind.Between the lines, the bible speaks directly to you, the reader. God is for you, and from you. The interesting stories in the bible are no history. They only inspire you to find out more about yourself and your personality. The love-hate relationship between God and the Hebrews is nothing but a metaphor and an example of the love-hate relationship between every individual and himself/herself (or his/her conscience). God is personal, not national. Reading about the Hebrews, and how they discovered their God, can only inspire you to find your own God too. He may tell you something else: what your mind tells you. This could disagree with the Bible: it will be your authentic voice.The book requires no background in Judaism or religion or theology or any other field: the required background is provided here in full, including excerpts from the literature (in a free interpretation from Hebrew). The book is aimed at just any reader (Jewish or not, religious, or not) who is ready to consider a new (non-traditional) way to read the bible and benefit from it spiritually (or psychologically). After all, this is what the bible is all about: self-awareness, introspection, and emotional progress. Yair Shapira wrote a few books in mathematical physics, including- Classical and Quantum Mechanics with Lie Algebras- Set Theory and its Applications in Physics and Computing.He also wrote a few poems and short stories on tzura.co.il. Here, on the other hand, he writes about the Jewish bible, and interprets it in a secular way.

Why learn set theory? This book provides the answer - it is interesting, and also useful! Taking a new approach and looking from a fresh perspective, the discussion flows in a friendly and transparent way, supplemented with a lot of examples and figures. This makes the theory easily comprehensible: the proofs get vivid and visual, enveloped with interesting applications for students in (applied) math, physics, and engineering.Given the theory and the applications, the book could serve as a textbook in four (undergraduate) math courses: Introduction to set theory and its application; Chaos theory and stability - a geometrical point of view; Functional analysis - Han-Banach theory; and Cryptography with quantum computing. It teaches set theory from the basics, including the axiom of choice, the well ordering theorem, and Zorn's lemma. Furthermore, it uses Cantor's set to introduce chaos theory from a geometrical point of view. Moreover, it introduces the binomial formula (and other related formulas), and uses them in quantum statistical mechanics. And finally, it uses Zorn's lemma in functional analysis, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. There are also practical applications in cryptography, error correction, quantum computing and programming.

This textbook demonstrates the strong interconnections between linear algebra and group theory by presenting them simultaneously, a pedagogical strategy ideal for an interdisciplinary audience.

Emphasizing the connection between mathematical objects and their practical C++ implementation, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to both the theory behind the objects and the C and C++ programming. Object-oriented implementation of three-dimensional meshes facilitates understanding of their mathematical nature. Requiring no prerequisites, the text covers discrete mathematics, data structures, and computational physics, including high-order discretization of nonlinear equations. Exercises and solutions make the book suitable for classroom use and a supporting website supplies downloadable code.