Part I: Income Taxes, Lottery, and Lion Hunting—Elementary Mathematics -- 1. “We Take over Your VAT!” How Big Is the Actual Discount? -- 2. Millions Every Week, but Not for Me. Six Numbers in the Lottery -- 3. Where Did My Money Go? Loss Compensation After a Price Drop -- 4. How Do You...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Financial Networks in the Presence of a Dominant Agent -- Chapter 3: Exchange-Traded Products as a Source of Network Risk -- Chapter 4: The VIX “Volmaggedon”, with Exchange-Traded Notes Destabilizing the Market -- Chapter 5: Liquidity Fissures in the...

Chapter 1. Preparatory knowledge -- Chapter 2. The basis of code theory -- Chapter 3. Shannon theory -- Chapter 4. Cryptosystem and authentication system -- Chapter 5. Prime test -- Chapter 6. Elliptic curve -- Chapter 7. Lattice-based cryptography.

1. Introduction -- 2. Linear Programming -- 3. Multiobjective Programming -- 4. Nonlinear Programming -- 5. Integer Linear Programming -- 6. Network Models -- 7. Location Models -- 8. Project Networks -- 9. Machine Scheduling -- 10. Decision Analysis -- 11. Multiattribute Decision Making -- 12....

Rethinking Theory on the Role of Technological Innovation in Economic Development -- Information Model for Calculating the Rate of Technical Progress -- K-Waves and the Innovation-Technological Paradigm of Schumpeter–Mensch–Freeman–Hirooka -- Assessment of the Quality of Growth of National...

This book develops the central aspect of fixed point theory - the topological fixed point index - to maximal generality, emphasizing correspondences and other aspects of the theory that are of special interest to economics. Numerous topological consequences are presented, along with important...

Topological analysis of bitcoin's lightning network -- Token locking for governance -- Collusion attack from hubs in the blockchain offline channel network -- Sharing of encrypted files in block chain made simpler -- Digital currencies: A multivariate GARCH approach -- Compact storage of...

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical...