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|a Banks, Robert
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|a Towing icebergs, falling dominoes, and other adventures in applied mathematics /
|c Robert B. Banks.
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|a Princeton, N.J. :
|b Princeton University Press,
|c c1998.
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|a xi, 328 p. :
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|c 24 cm.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-326) and index.
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|a Ch. 1. Units and Dimensions and Mach Numbers -- Ch. 2. Alligator Eggs and the Federal Debt -- Ch. 3. Controlling Growth and Perceiving Spread -- Ch. 4. Little Things Falling from the Sky -- Ch. 5. Big Things Falling from the Sky -- Ch. 6. Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part I -- Ch. 7. Towing and Melting Enormous Icebergs: Part II -- Ch.8. A Better Way to Score the Olympics -- Ch. 9. How to Calculate the Economic Energy of a Nation -- Ch. 10. How to Start Football Games, and Other Probably Good Ideas -- Ch. 11. Gigantic Numbers and Extreme Exponents -- Ch. 12. Ups and Downs of Professional Football -- Ch. 13. A Tower, a Bridge, and a Beautiful Arch -- Ch. 14. Jumping Ropes and Wind Turbines -- Ch. 15. The Crisis of the Deficit: Gompertz to the Rescue -- Ch. 16. How to Reduce the Population with Differential Equations -- Ch. 17. Shot Puts, Basketballs, and Water Fountains -- Ch. 18. Balls and Strikes and Home Runs -- Ch. 19. Hooks and Slices and Holes in One.
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