Modeling reality with mathematics / Alfio Quarteroni ; translated by Simon G. Chiossi.
2022
TA342
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Title
Modeling reality with mathematics / Alfio Quarteroni ; translated by Simon G. Chiossi.
Author
Quarteroni, Alfio, author.
ISBN
9783030961626 (electronic bk.)
3030961621 (electronic bk.)
9783030961619
3030961613
3030961621 (electronic bk.)
9783030961619
3030961613
Published
Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-96162-6 doi
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TA342
Dewey Decimal Classification
511/.8
Summary
Simulating the behavior of a human heart, predicting tomorrow's weather, optimizing the aerodynamics of a sailboat, finding the ideal cooking time for a hamburger: to solve these problems, cardiologists, meteorologists, sportsmen, and engineers can count on math help. This book will lead you to the discovery of a magical world, made up of equations, in which a huge variety of important problems for our life can find useful answers.
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Translated from the Italian.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Chiossi, Simon G., translator.
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Modeling reality with mathematics.
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Table of Contents
1 The model, aka the magic box
2 Weather Forecast Models
3 Epidemics: the Mathematics of Contagion
4 Mathematical Hearth
5 Mathematics in the Wind
6 Flying on Sun Power
7 The taste for Mathematics
8 Conclusions.
2 Weather Forecast Models
3 Epidemics: the Mathematics of Contagion
4 Mathematical Hearth
5 Mathematics in the Wind
6 Flying on Sun Power
7 The taste for Mathematics
8 Conclusions.