There has never been a universal algebra of data. Mathematics has been widely employed by software in many ways: numerical analysis, statistics, algorithms, mathematical modeling, and so on, but it has never been used to formally define data in all its variety. This changed when mathematical research into data algebra—carried out for Algebraix Data Corporation by one of the authors of this book—matured and was tested in an extensive range of data management, data integration, and performance optimization contexts. The purpose of this book is to explain that data algebra. The book is undeniably and unashamedly a mathematics text. However, realizing that the readership would likely include many software developers and users as well as mathematicians, the book is written to be as accessible as possible to anyone with some mathematical skills. As such, this is not your grandfather’s mathematics text. Between the various set theory assertions, expressions, and equations flows a narrative that is both surprising and entertaining. The subtitle of the book, A Foundation for the Data Economy, is not hyperbole. The mathematical definition of data, and the various set theoretical operations and functions that can be applied to it, provide a new approach to data. It will, in time, become the natural foundation for the emerging data economy that is already growing swiftly.

The Algebra of Data: A Foundation for the Data Economy

Computers & Technology

Sherman, Gary

Bloor, Robin

Computer Science

Bloor Group

This book is a thoroughly edited version of the original 1931 manuscript of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. Gurdjieff. The text is, for the most part, unchanged from the original manuscript that was published in a limited edition in 1931 under the direction of A R Orage. However some editing to the text has been done to remove obvious typographical errors and to harmonize the spelling of Gurdjeiff's many invented names and neologisms to align with the later published version of this classic literary work. In addition a full index is provided, almost to the level of a concordance. It documents all changes to the neologisms and all edits, aside from typographical corrections made to the text. The attraction of this publication lies in the fact that although Gurdjieff approved this original edition for publication and hence regarded his writing effort as almost complete, he subsequently made significant changes to many parts of it, and hence reading the 1931 Manuscript at times feels as though one is reading a different book, but one that nevertheless bears the mark of its author.

The 1931 Manuscript of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

Politics & Social Sciences

GURDJIEFF, G.I.

Philosophy

The Herald of Coming Good was first published in 1933, apparently as a prelude to the publication of Gurdjieff's three series of books under the common title of All and Everything. It was written in the obtuse and difficult style of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. As such, it is a mysterious publication. It pretends to be a marketing vehicle for attracting people to the Work, with registration blanks for readers to fill in, should they wish to subscribe to the books of the First Series. The casual reader is unlikely to make much sense of it, but serious readers of Gurdjieff's writings may find its contents valuable.This version of the book has been "translated" into American English and also includes a rendering of the prospectus for Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. As an djuncta to the book, there are some notes about The Herald made by the editor of this publication. They do not constitute a complete analysis. Nevertheless, they may prove useful to the reader.

The Herald of Coming Good: First appeal to contemporary Humanity [with notes]

Gurdjíeff, George

Biographies & Memoirs

When the cryptocurrency bubble burst in early 2018, many commentators became dubious about the merits of cryptocurrencies. Understandably, they asked the question: 
Do cryptocurrencies herald a revolution, or not?
This is not a simple question. It provokes other questions, which in turn lead to more: Can cryptocurrencies become real currencies, like the dollar or the euro? In fact, what exactly is a currency? Exactly what's new about blockchain technology--what can it do? Which businesses can exploit it? Can cryptocurrencies undermine the big Internet ad giants like Facebook and Google? Can individuals own their data? How could that work? What exactly is personal data? What should an individual's data rights be? How would a business manage a cryptocurrency? There is no shortage of questions like these. 
In exploring such questions, Robin Bloor investigates the curious parallel between the historical revolution provoked by Gutenberg's printing press and the revolutionary decentralization of computer power that gave birth to the blockchain. This serves as a backdrop, as Bloor switches between multiple interconnected fields of study: the nature of personal data, blockchain technology, the history of IT, the history of money, the characteristics of currencies, the limitations of cryptocurrency, and more.
The "Common Sense" of Cryptocurrency is remarkable in its clarity, its breadth and its depth. Among other things, it defines what money is and how currencies should be viewed and understood, It advises on how crypto businesses should manage their cryptocurrencies and it even proposes what the individual's data rights should be.
If you need to understand cryptocurrency, and you probably do, you need to read this book.

The "Common Sense" of Cryptocurrency

Business & Money

Bloor, Robin J

Economics

This is an alternate version of The 1931 Manuscript to Beelzebub's Tales by G Gurdjieff, which preserves Gurdjieff's original neologisms rather than replacing them with words taken from the 1950 publication. Aside from that it is identical to the other version published by Karnal Press. Readers who enjoyed reading the 1950 publication of Beelzebub's Tales will most likely enjoy The 1931 Manuscript. Despite of the differences between the books, the text of The 1931 Manuscript bears the mark of Gurdjieff. It is permeated with his rhythm and style. While in some chapters the text of the manuscript is quite similar to the 1950 publication, it is distinctly and surprisingly different in many others.?When reading those other chapters, one gets the impression of a Gurdjieff book one has never previously encountered. The subject matter may be familiar-in most cases it will be-but the text is not. This may prove to be the main attraction of The 1931 Manuscript. Nevertheless, there is another reason why some readers will be attracted to this book.?The 1931 Manuscript is a version of Beelzebub's Tales that Gurdjieff created and approved word by word. As such it stands as an early but nevertheless authentic text of Gurdjieff's work of objective literature. Those who have picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Gurdjieff, who are determined to "try and fathom the gist" of his writings, will discover The 1931 Manuscript to be of particular interest. For them it may prove to be a complementary text rather than an alternative one.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson - The Revised 1931 Manuscript

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Gurdjieff clearly wanted his pupils to try to understand Objective Science. He left two accounts of it. One adorns the pages of In Search of the Miraculous; the other merges itself into the text of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. He described its study as a necessity - one of five obligolnian strivings. And yet, most books about The Work steer clear of the topic. ?This book moves in the opposite direction. ?It grasps the nettle-exploring the principles of Objective Science and explaining why it cannot be reconciled with Modern Science in its current form. It then proceeds to provide a clear description of the fundamentals of Objective Science:?What are its methods? What does the Ray of Creation signify or imply? What are the Hydrogens and how are they derived? What are the implications of the Trogoautoegocrat? How are the elements formed? How does evolution happen? What is plasma and what is its role in the life of the whole cosmos? How do new planets form? Is the Moon really growing? Is the Earth itself growing? ?What is Man's place in the cosmos and how can we use the Step Diagram (see the front cover) to understand that? Is humanity really food for the Moon? If so, how?? The author accompanies you on a journey of revelation. It's an intellectual adventure and a wild conceptual ride.

Gurdjieff's Hydrogens Volume 1: The Ray of Creation

Readings Prosaic and Poetic

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Food For The Heart And Mind Collected over many years, this thoughtfully curated treasury of readings reaches out across multiple cultures and traditions. Open it on almost any page and you will find something to inspire you. It is awash with masterpieces of the writer's craft. This literary gem is artfully organized under twelve headings which is itself a poem of a kind, and reads as follows: At First, An Arousing Secondly, A Gathering Third, An Exploration The Fourth Is A Procession The Fifth, A Pondering The Sixth, A Sallying Forth The Seventh Is A Peregrination The Eighth Entails A Mission The Ninth Becomes A Quest Then Proceeds A Pilgrimage Penultimately, A Returning And Finally, A Recurrence Each of these lines refers to a chapter containing nine separate works of poetry or prose, each occupying just a few pages. So it comprises 108 readings, harvested from the works of literary giants. A few you will undoubtedly be familiar with, but some will be entirely new to the reader. The book includes three previously unpublished poems by Rina Hands, as well as a few other previously unpublished works. It includes poetry or prose from: Lao Tzu, The Dalai Lama, G Gurdjieff, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jalal ad-D&#299;n Rumi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, St Francis, Avicenna, Alexander Pushkin, Honoré de Balzac, John Milton, Marcus Aurelius, St Paul, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Blake, Khalil Gibran, Arthur Rimbaud, John Bunyan, Red Hawk, Immanual Joseph, John Keats, René Daumal, Li Po, William Shakespeare, The Bible, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Tacitus, Lewis Carroll, Soren Kirkegaard, Farid ud-Din Attar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Chuang Tzu, Omar Khayyam, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ivan Turgenev, W B Yeats, Charles Causley, Emily Dickinson and many others. It is a book you will dip into again and again, a book for the coffee table, not the bookshelf.

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The Algebra of Data: A Foundation for the Data Economy

The 1931 Manuscript of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

The Herald of Coming Good: First appeal to contemporary Humanity [with notes]

The "Common Sense" of Cryptocurrency

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson - The Revised 1931 Manuscript

Gurdjieff's Hydrogens Volume 1: The Ray of Creation

Readings Prosaic and Poetic

Readings Prosaic and Poetic