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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aAdams, Colin _eautore
245	1	0	_aZombies and Calculus / _cColin Adams.
250			_aCourse Book
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©2014
300			_a1 online resource : _b47 line illus.
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter One. Hour 6 -- _tChapter Two. Hour 7 -- _tChapter Three. Hour 7½ -- _tChapter Four. Hour 3¾ -- _tChapter Five. Hour 8 -- _tChapter Six. Hour 9 -- _tChapter Seven. Hour 10 -- _tChapter Eight. Hour 18 -- _tChapter Nine. Hour 24 -- _tEpilogue -- _tAppendix A. Continuing the Conversations -- _tAppendix B. A Brief Review of Calculus as Explained to Connor by Ellie -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
520			_aHow 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.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650		0	_aCalculus _vFiction.
650		0	_aMathematics _vFiction.
650		0	_aZombies _vFiction.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. _2bisacsh
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