Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics / / Robert B. Banks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Banks, Robert B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Puzzlers
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 6 halftones. 72 line illus. 42 tables.

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...

Table of Contents

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