Titel: Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics
Verlag: Princeton Univ Dept of Art, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0691059489
ISBN-13: 9780691059488
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
Buchtyp: Book

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Common activities, such as skipping, playing football, growing flowers, measuring saving accounts and many others are inherently mathematical. The text is centred on real-world phenomenon, such as how tall can one grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? Can California water shortages be alleviated by towing icebergs from Antarctica? What is the fastest the 100-metre dash will ever be run? This text uses math and reasoning together, to produce models to explain everything from the federal debt to the proper technique for ski-jumping.

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Robert B. Banks was a 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.

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