Banks Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4674-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Puzzlers

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, Robert B.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Chapter 1 Units and Dimensions and Mach Numbers 3

Chapter 2 Alligator Eggs and the Federal Debt 15

Chapter 3 Controlling Growth and Perceiving Spread 24

Chapter 4 Little Things Falling from the Sky 31

Chapter 5 Big Things Falling from the Sky 42

Chapter 6 Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part I 54

Chapter 7 Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part II 68

Chapter 8 A Better Way to Score the Olympics 79

Chapter 9 How to Calculate the Economic Energy of a Nation 93

Chapter 10 How to Start Football Games, and Other Probably Good Ideas 10

Chapter 11 Gigantic Numbers and Extreme Exponents 121

Chapter 12 Ups and Downs of Professional Football 133

Chapter 13 A Tower, a Bridge, and a Beautiful Arch 150

Chapter 14 Jumping Ropes and Wind Turbines 168

Chapter 15 The Crisis of the Deficit: Gompertz to the Rescue 179

Chapter 16 How to Reduce the Population with Differential Equations 189

Chapter 17 Shot Puts, Basketballs, and Water Fountains 201

Chapter 18 Balls and Strikes and Home Runs 219

Chapter 19 Hooks and Slices and Holes in One 234

Chapter 20 Happy Landings in the Snow 243

Chapter 21 Water Waves and Falling Dominoes 254

Chapter 22 Something Shocking about Highway Traffic 270

Chapter 23 How Tall Will I Grow? 283

Chapter 24 How Fast Can Runners Run? 300

References 321

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Robert B. Banks (1922-2002) was Professor of Engineering at Northwestern University and Dean of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served with the Ford Foundation in Mexico City and with the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He won numerous national and international honors, including being named Commander of the Order of the White Elephant by the King of Thailand and Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the government of France. He is the author of Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Princeton).