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Slicing pizzas, racing turtles, and further adventures in applied mathematics /
Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he supplies the mathematical know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving adventures. In this sequel to the popular Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes (Princet...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012, ©1999.
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| Colección: | Princeton puzzlers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Broad stripes and bright stars
- ch. 2. More stars, honeycombs, and snowflakes
- ch. 3. Slicing things like pizzas and watermelons
- ch. 4. Raindrops keep falling on my head and other goodies
- ch. 5. Raindrops and other goodies revisited
- ch. 6. Which major rivers flow uphill
- ch. 7. A brief look at [pi], e, and some other famous numbers
- ch. 8. Another look at some famous numbers
- ch. 9. Great number sequences : prime, fibonacci, and hailstone
- ch. 10. A fast way to escape
- ch. 11. How to get anywhere in about forty-two minutes
- ch. 12. How fast should you run in the rain
- ch. 13. Great turtle races : pursuit curves
- ch. 14. More great turtle races : logarithmic spirals
- ch. 15. How many people have ever lived
- ch. 16. The great explosion of 2023
- ch. 17. How to make fairly nice valentines
- ch. 18. Somewhere over the rainbow
- ch. 19. Making mathematical mountains
- ch. 20. How to make mountains out of molehills
- ch. 21. Moving continents from here to there
- ch. 22. Cartography : how to flatten spheres
- ch. 23. Growth and spreading and mathematical analogies
- ch. 24. How long is the seam on a baseball
- ch. 25. Baseball seams, pipe connections, and world travels
- ch. 26. Lengths, areas, and volumes of all kinds of shapes.