Contents

  1. Prelude to a Mess
    1. What's Going OnMarvin Gaye 1971: The Plan of this Book
    2. Tell Me WhyThe Beatles 1964:  Some Motivation and Background
    3. If I Had a HammerPete Seeger 1949: Tools Used and Required
    4. Hello, Cleveland! A First Ox Program
    5. Exercises for Prelude to a Mess
  2. Programming & Computation
    1. Programming Essentials in Ox
      1. Ask Me Anything: FAQs on Programs
      2. Basic InstinctMost paused scene on VCRs: Elements of An Ox Program
      3. Phone a FriendWho Wants to be a Millionaire:  Understanding Ox Documentation
      4. Stupid Human TricksDavid Letterman 1980s: The Programming Cycle
      5. Express YourselfCharles Wright 1970 (before NWA and Madonna): Ox Syntax for Calculations
      6. If It's MagicStevie Wonder 1976: Ox Syntax for Conditional Execution
      7. Oops … I Did It Again Britney Spears 2000: Ox Syntax for Repeated Execution
    2. Hardware
      1. If 6 Was 9Jimi Hendrix 1967: A Computational Puzzle
      2. TimReplacements 1985: Hardware for DummiesEconomists
      3. Machine HeadDeep Purple Album 1971
      4. Numb3rsTV Show: Integers & Reals
      5. MementoI've forgotten already: Memory & Addresses
    3. The Code-to-Execution Process
      1. The Ties that BindBruce Springsteen 1980: When Things Happen in a Program
      2. Across The Great DivideThe Band 1969: The Two Kinds of Programming Languages
    4. Advanced Programming in Ox
      1. Catch Me Now I'm FallingKinks 1979: Catching and Handling Errors
      2. Vectors & Matrices
      3. Fun, Fun, FunBeach Boys 1964: Functions
      4. Secret Life of Objects(Plants), Stevie Wonder 1979: Scope and Lifetime of Ox Things
      5. File Under Easy ListeningSugar album 1993: Reading and Writing Output
      6. Must I Paint You a PictureBilly Bragg 1988? Graphs in Ox
      7. Objects & Classes: 
    5. Life in the Fast LaneEagles 1976: High Performance Computing
      1. The Style CouncilPaul Weller's group after the Jam: 
      2. Avoid Overhead
      3. One Way or AnotherBlondie 1979: Parallel Execution
      4. Exercises for Programming & Computation
  3. Digital Mathematics and Statistics
    1. Fundamentals
      1. : Convergence of a Markov Process
      2. I Walk the LineJohnny Cash 1957: Linear Algebra
      3. Linear Systems
      4. LInear Applications: Markov Process and OLS
      5. Roll With the ChangesREO Speedwagon 1978: Differential Calculus
      6. Add It UpViolent Femmes 1982: Integral Calculus
    2. Non-Linear Systems
      1. CrossroadsRobert Johnson 1938:  Finding roots of single equations
      2. Newton-Raphson and Broyden
    3. Optimization
      1. All Down the LineRolling Stones 1971: 1-D Line Optimization
      2. Climb Every Mountain:Sound of Music 1965 Gradient and Hessian Based Optimization
      3. Finding NemoMovie: The Nelder-Mead Amoeba Algorithm
      4. Bound for GloryBook / Movie 1976: Contrained Optimization
    4. Sliding DoorsMovie 1998 before Gwenneth Paltrow went crazy: Simulation & Randomness
      1. Known UnknownsDonald Rumsfeld 2003
      2. Applications
      3. Exercises for Digital Mathematics and Statistics
  4. Applications
    1. Economics
      1. The Marshall Matters Section:Budgets and the Consumer Problem
      2. Edgeworth
      3. tertemporal Choice
      4. Nash
      5. Search
    2. Finance
      1. Rates of Return
      2. Portfolios
      3. Asset Pricing
    3. Learning and Neural Networks
    4. Projects
    5. Exercises for Applications