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How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel.Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig William...
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Adams, Colin, author. Zombies and Calculus / Colin Adams. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource : 47 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Hour 6 -- Chapter Two. Hour 7 -- Chapter Three. Hour 7½ -- Chapter Four. Hour 3¾ -- Chapter Five. Hour 8 -- Chapter Six. Hour 9 -- Chapter Seven. Hour 10 -- Chapter Eight. Hour 18 -- Chapter Nine. Hour 24 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Continuing the Conversations -- Appendix B. A Brief Review of Calculus as Explained to Connor by Ellie -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel.Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead. Along the way, readers learn how to avoid being eaten by taking advantage of the fact that zombies always point their tangent vector toward their target, and how to use exponential growth to determine the rate at which the virus is spreading. Williams also covers topics such as logistic growth, gravitational acceleration, predator-prey models, pursuit problems, the physics of combat, and more. With the aid of his story, you too can survive the zombie onslaught.Featuring easy-to-use appendixes that explain the book's mathematics in greater detail, Zombies and Calculus is suitable both for those who have only recently gotten the calculus bug, as well as for those whose disease has advanced to the multivariable stage. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Calculus Fiction. Mathematics Fiction. Zombies Fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110444186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691161907 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852017?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400852017.jpg |
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