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by Robert B. Banks
Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
Chapter 2 - More Stars, Honeycombs, and Snowflakes
Chapter 3 - Slicing Things Like Pizzas and Watermelons
Chapter 4 - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head and Other Goodies
Chapter 5 - Raindrops and Other Goodies Revisited
Chapter 6 - Which Major Rivers Flow Uphill?
Chapter 7 - A Brief Look at π, e, and Some Other Famous Numbers
Chapter 8 - Another Look at Some Famous Numbers
Chapter 9 - Great Number Sequences: Prime, Fibonacci, and Hailstone
Chapter 10 - A Fast Way to Escape
Chapter 11 - How to Get Anywhere in About Forty-Two Minutes
Chapter 12 - How Fast Should You Run in the Rain?
Chapter 13 - Great Turtle Races: Pursuit Curves
Chapter 14 - More Great Turtle Races: Logarithmic Spirals
Chapter 15 - How Many People Have Ever Lived?
Chapter 16 - The Great Explosion of 2023
Chapter 17 - How to Make Fairly Nice Valentines
Chapter 18 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Chapter 19 - Making Mathematical Mountains
Chapter 20 - How to Make Mountains out of Molehills
Chapter 21 - Moving Continents from Here to There
Chapter 22 - Cartography: How to Flatten Spheres
Chapter 23 - Growth and Spreading and Mathematical Analogies
Chapter 24 - How Long Is the Seam on a Baseball?
Chapter 25 - Baseball Seams, Pipe Connections, and World Travels
Chapter 26 - Lengths, Areas, and Volumes of All Kinds of Shapes
References
Index
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To my mother;
Georgia Corley Banks,
and my sister and brothers
,
Joan, Dick, and Barney
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