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Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics /
Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | Paperback reissue. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics / |c Robert B. Banks. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Units and dimensions and mach numbers -- Alligator eggs and federal debt -- Controlling growth and perceiving spread -- Little things falling from the sky -- Big things falling from the sky -- Towing and melting enormous icebergs : part I -- Towing and melting enormous icebergs : part II -- A better way to score the Olympics -- How to calculate the economic energy of a nation -- How to start football games, and other probably good ideas -- Gigantic numbers and extreme exponents -- Ups and downs of professional football -- A tower, a bridge, and a beautiful arch -- Jumping ropes and wind turbines -- The crisis of the deficit : Gompertz to the rescue -- How to reduce the population with differential equations -- Shot puts, basketballs, and water fountains -- Balls and strikes and home runs -- Hooks and slices and holes in one -- Happy landings in the snow -- Water waves and falling dominoes -- Something shocking about highway traffic -- How tall will I grow? -- How fast can runners run? | |
| 520 | |a Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to score Olympic events. Here Robert Banks presents a wide range of musings, both practical and entertaining, that have intrigued him and others: How tall can one grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? Which football player would have a better. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 6 | |a Mathematiques |v Ouvrages de vulgarisation. | |
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