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Slicing pizzas, racing turtles, and further adventures in applied mathematics

Title
Slicing pizzas, racing turtles, and further adventures in applied mathematics / Robert B. Banks.
Author
Banks, Robert, 1922-2002.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.

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Description
xi, 286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The author discloses the mathematics behind a host of problems, including gauging the length of the seam on a baseball, predicting the results of melting polar ice caps, and digging a hole to China.
Subject
  • Mathematics > Popular works
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematik
  • Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung
  • Wiskunde
  • Toepassingen
  • MATHEMATICS
  • FUNCTIONS (MATHEMATICS)
  • APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS
  • NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Genre/Form
Popular works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-284) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0691059470
  • 9780691059471
LCCN
98053513
OCLC
  • ocm40417857
  • 40417857
  • SCSB-797208
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