X and the City : : Modeling Aspects of Urban Life /

X and the City : : Modeling Aspects of Urban Life / / John A. Adam.

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X and the City, a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor's offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie theaters in a city of a given size? How c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Adam, John A.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 6 halftones.104 line illus. 8 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Getting to the city
  • Chapter 3. Living in the city
  • Chapter 4. Eating in the city
  • Chapter 5. Gardening in the city
  • Chapter 6. Summer in the city
  • Chapter 7. Not driving in the city!
  • Chapter 8. Driving in the city
  • Chapter 9. Probability in the city
  • Chapter 10. Traffic in the city
  • Chapter 11. Car following in the city-I
  • Chapter 12. Car following in the city-II
  • Chapter 13. Congestion in the city
  • Chapter 14. Roads in the city
  • Chapter 15. Sex and the city
  • Chapter 16. Growth and the city
  • Chapter 17. The axiomatic city
  • Chapter 18. Scaling in the city
  • Chapter 19. Air pollution in the city
  • Chapter 20. Light in the city
  • Chapter 21. Nighttime in the city-I
  • Chapter 22. Nighttime in the city-II
  • Chapter 23. Lighthouses in the city?
  • Chapter 24. Disaster in the city?
  • Chapter 25. Getting away from the city
  • Appendix 1. Theorems for Princess Dido
  • Appendix 2. Princess Dido and the sinc function
  • Appendix 3. Taxicab geometry
  • Appendix 4. The Poisson distribution
  • Appendix 5. The method of Lagrange multipliers
  • Appendix 6. A spiral braking path
  • Appendix 7. The average distance between two random points in a circle
  • Appendix 8. Informal "derivation" of the logistic differential equation
  • Appendix 9. A miniscule introduction to fractals
  • Appendix 10. Random walks and the diffusion equation
  • Appendix 11. Rainbow/Halo details
  • Appendix 12. The Earth as vacuum cleaner?
  • Annotated references and notes
  • Index

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