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Zombies and Calculus / Colin Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource : 47 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691161907
  • 9781400852017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3601.D3698
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Hour 6 -- Chapter Two. Hour 7 -- Chapter Three. Hour 7½ -- Chapter Four. Hour 3¾ -- Chapter Five. Hour 8 -- Chapter Six. Hour 9 -- Chapter Seven. Hour 10 -- Chapter Eight. Hour 18 -- Chapter Nine. Hour 24 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Continuing the Conversations -- Appendix B. A Brief Review of Calculus as Explained to Connor by Ellie -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel.Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead. Along the way, readers learn how to avoid being eaten by taking advantage of the fact that zombies always point their tangent vector toward their target, and how to use exponential growth to determine the rate at which the virus is spreading. Williams also covers topics such as logistic growth, gravitational acceleration, predator-prey models, pursuit problems, the physics of combat, and more. With the aid of his story, you too can survive the zombie onslaught.Featuring easy-to-use appendixes that explain the book's mathematics in greater detail, Zombies and Calculus is suitable both for those who have only recently gotten the calculus bug, as well as for those whose disease has advanced to the multivariable stage.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400852017

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Hour 6 -- Chapter Two. Hour 7 -- Chapter Three. Hour 7½ -- Chapter Four. Hour 3¾ -- Chapter Five. Hour 8 -- Chapter Six. Hour 9 -- Chapter Seven. Hour 10 -- Chapter Eight. Hour 18 -- Chapter Nine. Hour 24 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Continuing the Conversations -- Appendix B. A Brief Review of Calculus as Explained to Connor by Ellie -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index

How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel.Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead. Along the way, readers learn how to avoid being eaten by taking advantage of the fact that zombies always point their tangent vector toward their target, and how to use exponential growth to determine the rate at which the virus is spreading. Williams also covers topics such as logistic growth, gravitational acceleration, predator-prey models, pursuit problems, the physics of combat, and more. With the aid of his story, you too can survive the zombie onslaught.Featuring easy-to-use appendixes that explain the book's mathematics in greater detail, Zombies and Calculus is suitable both for those who have only recently gotten the calculus bug, as well as for those whose disease has advanced to the multivariable stage.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)