Contents

  1. Prelude to a Mess
    1. What's Going On♭Marvin Gaye 1971: The Plan of this Book
    2. Tell Me Why♭The Beatles 1964:  Some Motivation and Background
    3. If I Had a Hammer♭Pete 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 Instinct♭Most paused scene on VCRs: Elements of An Ox Program
      3. Phone a Friend♭Who Wants to be a Millionaire:  Understanding Ox Documentation
      4. Stupid Human Tricks♭David Letterman 1980s: The Programming Cycle
      5. Express Yourself♭Charles Wright 1970 (before NWA and Madonna): Ox Syntax for Calculations
      6. If It's Magic♭Stevie 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 9♭Jimi Hendrix 1967: A Computational Puzzle
      2. Tim♭Replacements 1985: Hardware for DummiesEconomists
      3. Machine Head♭Deep Purple Album 1971
      4. Numb3rs♭TV Show: Integers & Reals
      5. Memento♭I've forgotten already: Memory & Addresses
    3. The Code-to-Execution Process
      1. The Ties that Bind♭Bruce Springsteen 1980: When Things Happen in a Program
      2. Across The Great Divide♭The Band 1969: The Two Kinds of Programming Languages
    4. Advanced Programming in Ox
      1. Catch Me Now I'm Falling♭Kinks 1979: Catching and Handling Errors
      2. Vectors & Matrices
      3. Fun, Fun, Fun♭Beach Boys 1964: Functions
      4. Secret Life of Objects♭(Plants), Stevie Wonder 1979: Scope and Lifetime of Ox Things
      5. File Under Easy Listening♭Sugar album 1993: Reading and Writing Output
      6. Must I Paint You a Picture♭Billy Bragg 1988? Graphs in Ox
      7. Objects & Classes: 
    5. Life in the Fast Lane♭Eagles 1976: High Performance Computing
      1. The Style Council♭Paul Weller's group after the Jam: 
      2. Avoid Overhead
      3. One Way or Another♭Blondie 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 Line♭Johnny Cash 1957: Linear Algebra
      3. Linear Systems
      4. LInear Applications: Markov Process and OLS
      5. Roll With the Changes♭REO Speedwagon 1978: Differential Calculus
      6. Add It Up♭Violent Femmes 1982: Integral Calculus
    2. Non-Linear Systems
      1. Crossroads♭Robert Johnson 1938:  Finding roots of single equations
      2. Newton-Raphson and Broyden
    3. Optimization
      1. All Down the Line♭Rolling Stones 1971: 1-D Line Optimization
      2. Climb Every Mountain:♭Sound of Music 1965 Gradient and Hessian Based Optimization
      3. Finding Nemo♭Movie: The Nelder-Mead Amoeba Algorithm
      4. Bound for Glory♭Book / Movie 1976: Contrained Optimization
    4. Sliding Doors♭Movie 1998 before Gwenneth Paltrow went crazy: Simulation & Randomness
      1. Known Unknowns♭Donald 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