Mathematics and sports:
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Washington, DC] Mathematical Association of America 2010
Schriftenreihe:Dolciani mathematical expositions no. 43
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Beschreibung:" ... compendium of essays solicited for the 2010 Mathematics Awareness Month web page ... "P. [4] of cover
Includes bibliographical references
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 - The 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 - The 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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 329 pages)
ISBN:9780883853498
0883853493
9781614442004
1614442002

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