| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index. |
| Contents |
The Pythagorean theorem -- Minima and maxima -- Inequalities by electric shorting -- Center of mass : proofs and solutions -- Geometry and motion -- Computing integrals using mechanics -- The Euler-Lagrange equation via stretched springs -- Lenses, telescopes, and Hamiltonian mechanics -- A bicycle wheel and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem -- Complex variables made simple(r) -- Physical background. |
| Summary |
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist. Levi turns math and physics upside down, revealing how physics can simplify proofs and lead to quicker solutions and new theorems, and how. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Problem solving.
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Problem solving. |
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Mathematical physics.
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Mathematical physics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Levi, Mark, 1951- Mathematical mechanic. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9780691140209 (DLC) 2009004861 (OCoLC)276340724 |
| ISBN |
9781400830473 (electronic book) |
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1400830478 (electronic book) |
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9780691140209 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0691140200 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691154565 |
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0691154562 |
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1282458450 |
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9781282458451 |
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