| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 43
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Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 43.
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| Note |
" ... compendium of essays solicited for the 2010 Mathematics Awareness Month web page ..."--Page 4 of book cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
I. Baseball. Sabermetrics : the past, the present, and the future / Jim Albert -- Surprising streaks and playoff parity : probability problems in a sports context / Rick Cleary -- Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field? / Howard Penn -- Streaking : finding the probability for a batting streak / Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le -- II. Basketball. Bracketology : how can math help? / Tim Chartier [and others] -- Down 4 with a minute to go / G. Edgar Parker -- Jump shot mathematics / Howard Penn -- III. Football. How deep is your playbook? / Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn -- A look at overtime in the NFL / Chris Jones -- Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings / R. Drew Pasteur -- When perfect isn't good enough : retrodictive rankings in college football / R. Drew Pasteur -- IV. Golf. Science of the drive / Douglas N. Arnold -- Is Tiger Woods a winner? / Scott M. Berry -- G.H. Hardy's golfing adventure / Roland Minton -- Tigermetrics / Roland Minton -- V. NASCAR. Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR / Cheryll E. Crowe -- VI. Scheduling. Scheduling a tournament / Dalibor Froncek -- VII. Soccer -- Bending a soccer ball with math / Tim Chartier -- VIII. Tennis. Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis / Reza Noubary -- Percentage play in tennis / G. Edgar Parker -- IX. Track and field. Effects of wind and altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries / Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz -- Mathematical ranking of the Division III track and field conferences / Chris Fisette -- What is the speed limit for men's 100 meter dash / Reza Noubary -- May the best team win : determining the winner of a cross country race / Stephen Szydlik -- Biomechanics of running and walking / Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sports -- Mathematics.
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Sports -- Mathematics. |
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Sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gallian, Joseph A., editor.
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Mathematical Association of America, issuing body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mathematics and sports. [Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, 2010 9780883853498 (DLC) 2010931026 (OCoLC)650220783 |
| ISBN |
9781614442004 (electronic book) |
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1614442002 (electronic book) |
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9780883853498 (paperback) |
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0883853493 (paperback) |
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