Towing icebergs, falling dominoes, and other adventures in applied mathematics /
| Основен автор: | Banks, Robert, 1922- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Издание: | Paperback reissue. |
| Предмети: |
Съдържание:
- 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?