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008 981123s1999 njua bi 001 0 eng
010 $a 98053513
020 $a0691059470 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(CSdNU)u82241-01national_inst
035 $a(Sirsi) l98053513
035 $a(Sirsi) l98053513
035 $a(Sirsi) 01-AAI-9243
035 $a 98053513
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrPss
050 00 $aQA 93$bB358 1999
100 1 $aBanks, Robert.
245 10 $aSlicing pizzas, racing turtles, and further adventures in applied mathematics /$cRobert B. Banks.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc1999.
300 $axi, 286 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-284) and index.
505 0 $aBroad Stripes and Bright Stars -- More Stars, Honeycombs, and Snowflakes -- Slicing Things Like Pizzas and Watermelons -- Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head and Other Goodies -- Raindrops and Other Goodies Revisited -- Which Major Rivers Flow Uphill? -- A Brief Look at pi, e, and Some Other Famous Numbers -- Another Look at Some Famous Numbers -- Great Number Sequences: Prime, Fibonacci, and Hailstone -- A Fast Way to Escape -- How to Get Anywhere in About Forty-Two Minutes -- How Fast Should You Run in the Rain? -- Great Turtle Races: Pursuit Curves -- More Great Turtle Races: Logarithmic Spirals -- How Many People Have Ever Lived? -- The Great Explosion of 2023 -- How to Make Fairly Nice Valentines -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- Making Mathematical Mountains -- How to Make Mountains out of Molehills -- Moving Continents from Here to There -- Cartography: How to Flatten Spheres -- Growth and Spreading and Mathematical Analogies -- How Long Is the Seam on a Baseball? -- Baseball Seams, Pipe Connections, and World Travels -- Lengths, Areas, and Volumes of All Kinds of Shapes.
650 0 $aMathematics$xPopular works.
948 $a03/10/2000$b03/14/2000
999 $aQA 93 B358 1999$wLC$c1$i31786101164652$d6/15/2004$f6/15/2004$g1 $lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS$n5$rY$sY$tBOOK$u6/11/2003