Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics - Rilegato

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Banks, Robert

 
9780691059471: Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics

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The author discloses the mathematics behind a host of whimsical and practical problems, including gauging the length of the seam on a baseball, predicting the results of melting polar ice caps, and digging a hole to China.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Robert B. Banks, author of Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Princeton), is a former Professor of Engineering at Northwestern University and former 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 has 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 Académiques by the government of France. He lives in California.

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9780691154992: Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics (Princeton Puzzlers)

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ISBN 10:  0691154996 ISBN 13:  9780691154992
Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2012
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