With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Award and the National Book Award, comes Fuzzy Mud, a New York Times bestseller. Publishers Weekly Be careful. Your next step may be your last. Random House Children's Books Delacorte Books for Young Readers United States, Singapore, Netherlands, South Korea, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Spain LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schnei...This book consists of selected papers written by the founder of fuzzy set theory, Lotfi A Zadeh. Since Zadeh is not only the founder of this field, but has also been the principal contributor to its development over the last 30 years, the papers contain virtually all the major ideas in fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems in their historical context.
Many of the ideas presented in the papers are still open to further development. The book is thus an important resource for anyone interested in the areas of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems, as well as their applications. Moreover, the book is also intended to play a useful role in higher education, as a rich source of supplementary reading in relevant courses and seminars. The book contains a bibliography of all papers published by Zadeh in the period 1949-1995. It also contains an introduction that traces the development of Zadeh's ideas pertaining to fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy systems via his papers. The ideas range from his 1965 seminal idea of the concept of a fuzzy set to ideas reflecting his current interest in computing with words — a computing in which linguistic expressions are used in place of numbers. Places in the papers, where each idea is presented can easily be found by the reader via the Subject Index. Chapter 1: Fuzzy Sets (670 KB)
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Chapter 1: Fuzzy Sets (670k)Fuzzy Ed’s Funhouse is a magical kingdom offering children hours of endless play whilst parent’s can sit back and relax. We cater to all occasions in Fuzzy Ed’s Funhouse – from private birthday parties with a fantastic party food menu, to our mini movers mid week play with free juice and toast.Fuzzy Ed and Co are over the moon to offer something for all the family. Mum’s can meet friends to catch up whilst enjoying coffee and cake knowing their children are in a supervised, clean and fun environment!Adults have it rough in children’s literature. Mothers vanish, fathers get slain, grim teen societies herd all the grown-ups into their own boring corners of the planet. It’s not that children’s authors dislike adults, exactly. It’s more an issue of plotting: Stories are more interesting when protagonists have the ability to change the world around them, for good or for bad — and kids will be the first to tell you that they become pretty powerless whenever adults are on the scene.
Louis Sachar’s Newbery-winning “Holes,” in which detained children are forced to dig pits at the insistence of a draconian adult, is about just that: the complicated agency of children in the face of a disempowering system. Luckily for us, Sachar is mining this promising terrain again in “Fuzzy Mud.” As the novel begins, Tamaya Dhilwaddi has just begun fifth grade at the exclusive Woodridge Academy, and the friends she thought she knew are different this year. They fall over themselves to entertain the older boys, for one thing, and though Tamaya tries to keep up with her shifting world, she finds it mystifying. “When did the rules change? When did it become bad to be good?” The seventh grader Marshall Walsh is feeling similarly out of his depth. When he takes a shortcut through forbidden woods to avoid a bully, Tamaya tags along.Two kids wandering into the dark forest — if this sounds like the start of a fairy tale, it’s a very modern one. Tamaya falls in the woods, and in the process comes in contact with “some kind of fuzz-covered mud.”
Deliciously, we readers at this point know more than the kids, because Sachar has interspersed his narrative with the transcript from a federal inquiry into the nearby SunRay Farm. The biotech engineers there have been working on a secret slime mold, hoping to market it as an energy source in a world with dwindling resources. That’s not your average mud that Tamaya has fallen into.As a rash spreads and blisters appear on her skin, Tamaya believably tries to play down her growing infection. It’s surprisingly easy: Her mom is perpetually wrapped up in work, and the school nurse maintains that she must have had a reaction to peanuts. Sachar has wisely placed his characters at the age of puberty, when worrying about a turncoat body — or whether going into the woods with a boy will lead to a mysterious rash — is native territory. Book Review Newsletter Sign up to receive a preview of each Sunday’s Book Review, delivered to your inbox every Friday. Receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services.
Tamaya’s desperate desire to be seen, when her only strategy in every social situation is to withdraw, is achingly well observed. So too is Marshall’s ashamed reaction to a bully wanting to beat him up. Their avoidance of their troubles only increases the reader’s tension when we realize, through the interspersed transcripts, that this impending eco-crisis will have a body count.So far, so good. These are all the makings of kid-lit Crichton, but there’s one problem: The children are well-realized characters and agents within their immediate social worlds, but once the bioengineering plot is introduced and it turns out the very fate of the world is at stake, the story line spins quickly out of the kids’ orbit. The reader is left in the sometimes frustrating position of feeling that the most exciting parts of the tale — bioengineering, an investigation and a cover-up! — are happening offstage. Focusing the plot on Marshall and Tamaya does capture something of the powerless quality of childhood, but it can also make for a passive reading experience.