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Author : Robert B. Banks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0691158185
Paperback ressiue, for the Princeton Puzzler's Series, 2013.
Author : Robert B. Banks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2012-07-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0691154996
Paperback reissue 2012; original copyright 1999.
Author : Kam Tim Chau
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 042989435X
This second of two comprehensive reference texts on differential equations continues coverage of the essential material students they are likely to encounter in solving engineering and mechanics problems across the field - alongside a preliminary volume on theory. This book covers a very broad range of problems, including beams and columns, plates, shells, structural dynamics, catenary and cable suspension bridge, nonlinear buckling, transports and waves in fluids, geophysical fluid flows, nonlinear waves and solitons, Maxwell equations, Schrodinger equations, celestial mechanics and fracture mechanics and dynamics. The focus is on the mathematical technique for solving the differential equations involved. All readers who are concerned with and interested in engineering mechanics problems, climate change, and nanotechnology will find topics covered in this book providing valuable information and mathematics background for their multi-disciplinary research and education.
Author : Paul Nahin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2013-03-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1400846110
Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice. This is what Digital Dice is all about: how to get numerical answers to difficult probability problems without having to solve complicated mathematical equations. Popular-math writer Paul Nahin challenges readers to solve twenty-one difficult but fun problems, from determining the odds of coin-flipping games to figuring out the behavior of elevators. Problems build from relatively easy (deciding whether a dishwasher who breaks most of the dishes at a restaurant during a given week is clumsy or just the victim of randomness) to the very difficult (tackling branching processes of the kind that had to be solved by Manhattan Project mathematician Stanislaw Ulam). In his characteristic style, Nahin brings the problems to life with interesting and odd historical anecdotes. Readers learn, for example, not just how to determine the optimal stopping point in any selection process but that astronomer Johannes Kepler selected his second wife by interviewing eleven women. The book shows readers how to write elementary computer codes using any common programming language, and provides solutions and line-by-line walk-throughs of a MATLAB code for each problem. Digital Dice will appeal to anyone who enjoys popular math or computer science. In a new preface, Nahin wittily addresses some of the responses he received to the first edition.
Author : T. Lipscombe
Publisher : Nottingham University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1904761178
Blending simple physics with anecdotes from the world of rugby, this informative reference demonstrates how to improve rugby techniques. Tackling, passing, running, and kicking are analyzed from a scientific perspective, incorporating Newton’s Laws, and then discussed in the wider context of the game. This valuable guide will not only instruct but also entertain sports-oriented students of all levels.
Author : John Adam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1400841011
From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows to spider webs, honeycombs, and the markings on animal coats, the visible world is full of patterns that can be described mathematically. Examining such readily observable phenomena, this book introduces readers to the beauty of nature as revealed by mathematics and the beauty of mathematics as revealed in nature. Generously illustrated, written in an informal style, and replete with examples from everyday life, Mathematics in Nature is an excellent and undaunting introduction to the ideas and methods of mathematical modeling. It illustrates how mathematics can be used to formulate and solve puzzles observed in nature and to interpret the solutions. In the process, it teaches such topics as the art of estimation and the effects of scale, particularly what happens as things get bigger. Readers will develop an understanding of the symbiosis that exists between basic scientific principles and their mathematical expressions as well as a deeper appreciation for such natural phenomena as cloud formations, halos and glories, tree heights and leaf patterns, butterfly and moth wings, and even puddles and mud cracks. Developed out of a university course, this book makes an ideal supplemental text for courses in applied mathematics and mathematical modeling. It will also appeal to mathematics educators and enthusiasts at all levels, and is designed so that it can be dipped into at leisure.
Author : William Briggs
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0898715741
This book is a readable and enjoyable text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate students.
Author : Aruntiwari With
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
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Author : Thomas Erneux
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387743723
Applied Delay Differential Equations is a friendly introduction to the fast-growing field of time-delay differential equations. Written to a multi-disciplinary audience, it sets each area of science in his historical context and then guides the reader towards questions of current interest.