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Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics (New in Paperback).
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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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Princeton puzzlers.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Units and Dimensions and Mach Numbers; Chapter 2: Alligator Eggs and the Federal Debt; Chapter 3: Controlling Growth and Perceiving Spread; Chapter 4: Little Things Falling from the Sky; Chapter 5: Big Things Falling from the Sky; Chapter 6: Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part I; Chapter 7: Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part II; Chapter 8: A Better Way to Score the Olympics; Chapter 9: How to Calculate the Economic Energy of a Nation.
- Chapter 10: How to Start Football Games, and Other Probably Good IdeasChapter 11: Gigantic Numbers and Extreme Exponents; Chapter 12: Ups and Downs of Professional Football; Chapter 13: A Tower, a Bridge, and a Beautiful Arch; Chapter 14: Jumping Ropes and Wind Turbines; Chapter 15: The Crisis of the Deficit: Gompertz to the Rescue; Chapter 16: How to Reduce the Population with Differential Equations; Chapter 17: Shot Puts, Basketballs, and Water Fountains; Chapter 18: Balls and Strikes and Home Runs; Chapter 19: Hooks and Slices and Holes in One; Chapter 20: Happy Landings in the Snow.
- Chapter 21: Water Waves and Falling DominoesChapter 22: Something Shocking about Highway Traffic; Chapter 23: How Tall Will I Grow?; Chapter 24: How Fast Can Runners Run?; References; Index.