The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
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Bernoulli, Johann
Bernoulli, Nicolaus
biofuel
Bittner, Craig Alan
Black Death
Blizzard Entertainment
Bloomfield, Robert
BMC Public Health
Boesel, Adam
Bohr, Neils
Bonet, Jordi
Book on Games of Chance, The (Cardano)
brachistochrone problem
bubble markets:
housing
tulip
bubonic plague
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de
Buffon’s needle
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
bungee jumping
Burns, Joe
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
calculator
calculus:
coining of word
differential
doing the math in
integral
invention of
making connections between abstract concepts and real-world examples
of variations
vector
calculus wars
Calculus Wars, The (Bardi)
California Fitness
Callas, Maria
calories
Harris-Benedict equation and
Calter, Paul
Cameron, Robert
car(s):
determining position of, from speed
determining speed of, from position
gas usage in
speed limits and
speedometers in
traffic flow and
Cardano, Gerolamo
Carner, Josep
Carnot, Lazare
Carnot, Sadi
Cartesian grid
Casa Batlló
Cassi, Davide
catenary
cell phones
Chandon, Pierre
Chittenden, Russell
Cho, Margaret
cholera
Chu-Carroll, Mark
Church of Colonia Güell
Cicero
circles
Clausius, Rudolf
Clusius, Carolus
Cocker, Edward
coffee
coin-and-feather experiment
cones
constant
Cook, James
Cordyceps fungi
cosines
hyperbolic (catenary)
cost
of housing
craps
curves
area under
circles
ellipses
hyperbolas
Newton and
parabolas, see parabolas
cycloid
Daily Beast
Daily Telegraph (London)
D’Alembert, Jean le Rond
Dandolos, Nicholas Andrea (“Nick the Greek”)
Darbyshire, Charles
Darwin, Charles
Dawn of the Dead
death
De Brosses, Charles
Defoe, Daniel
Delft University of Technology
Demauro, Patricia
derivatives
determining speed from position
diet and
energy and
evaporation rate and
finance and
in isoperimetric problem
known functions for
mortality and
Newton’s fluxion
partial
population and
sines and cosines and
Descartes, René
De Sluse, René François
Devil Dive
diegesis
diet pills
diets
Thermodynamics
differential calculus
differential equations, coupled system of
digital signal processing (DSP)
Dijksterhuis, Ap
diseases
Black Death
cholera
dracunculiasis
epidemiology and
flu
social networks and
virtual worlds and
zombie infection
Disney, Walt
Disneyland
Blue Bayou restaurant
Mad Tea Party ride
Space Mountain ride
Splash Mountain ride
Tower of Terror ride
domes
dracunculiasis
Drunkard’s Walk, The (Mlodinow)
Eagle, Nathan
economics
bubble markets
housing
mortgages
tulip mania
virtual
Edelmann, Geoffrey
education, see learning and education
Edward the Confessor
Einstein, Albert
Nick the Greek and
electricity
Elements (Euclid)
Eliot, T. S.
ellipses
energy
calories and
human-powered
entropy
epidemiology
equations
differential, coupled system of
Erdős, Paul
Euclid
Eudoxus of Cnidus
eugenics
Euler, Leonhard
Euler’s constant
evaporation
evolution
exercise
calories and
harvesting energy from
exponentials
decay curves
growth curves
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)
failure, in learning
fat, body
see also weight loss
Fefferman, Nina
FELs (free-electron lasers)
Fermat, Pierre de
Flamsteed, John
Fletcher, Horace
flu
food
calories and
diets
force
Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
Fourier transform
fractions
free fall
in Devil Dive ride
in Splash Mountain ride
in Tower of Terror ride
French Revolution
frequency
functions
acceleration, see acceleration
bell curve
catenary
constant
cosines
exponential, see exponentials
known
limit of
logarithmic
periodic
parabolic, see parabolas
position, see position
sines
speed (velocity), see speed
straight line
top ten
fungi, Cordyceps
Galileo
games of chance
Cardano and
craps
gambler’s ruin and
Kelly criterion and
probability and
problem of points in
Garces, Milton
gasoline usage
Gateway Arch
Gaudi, Antoni
Gehry, Frank
gender bias, in math and science
geometry
algebra linked to
Archimedes and
curves and
Germain, Sophie
g forces
Gidget
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilmore, Steve
Ginko Financial
Gombaud, Antoine
Gompertz, Benjamin
Good Math, Bad Math
Gould, Alistair
Graham, Sylvester
Grahame-Smith, Seth, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
graphs
gravity
amusement park rides and
g forces
surfing and
Green Microgym
Green Revolution
Greenspan, Alan
Griffiths, John
Güell, Eusebi
guinea worm disease
Halmos, Paul
Halmstad
Harold, King
Harris-Benedict equation
Hārūn ar-Rashīd
Hatshepsut
Hauser, Gayelord
Hay, William H.
heat
calories and
Heaviside, Oliver
Heiberg, John Ludwig
Henry Works
Hiero of Syracuse
HIV
Hooke, Robert
House
housing
bubble
mortgages
How We Decide (Lehrer)
Huygens, Christian
hyperbolas
hyperbolic cosine (catenary)
I Ching
Infinitesimal Analysis (Smith)
infinitesimals
infinity
Archimedes and
Zeno and
innate ability
integral calculus
integrals
determining likelihood of winning in craps
determining position from speed
in Devil Dive ride
diet and
energy and
finance and
Fourier transform and
known functions for
sines and cosines and
in Space Mountain ride
in surfing
in Tower of Terror ride
interest rates
in adjustable rate mortgages
I.Q.
irrational numbers
Isler, Heinz
isoperimetric problem
Jevons, W. S.
Joule, James Prescott
joules
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of the Plague Years, A (Defoe)
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP)
Kelly, John L.
Kelly criterion
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
Kerner, Boris
Kilian, Axel
King, James
King’s College
Kitasato, Shibasaburo
Kolata, Gina
Kresge Auditorium
Krumholtz, David
Kwarizmi, Abu Jafar al-
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de
Larrick, Richard
La Sagrada Familia
learning and education
failure and
gender bias and
innate ability and
Pestalozzi and
Lehrer, Jonah
Lehrer, Tom
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leonardo da Vinci
L’Hôpital, Guillaume Françoise Antoine, Marquis de
Lilly, William
limit
finding
Lincoln, Abraham
Linden Labs
Lockery, Shawn
Lofgren, Eric
logarithms
Los Angeles Wheelmen
Louis-Philippe, Duc d’Orléans
Luxor Hotel
Mackay, Charles
Mad Tea Party
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Malthusian factor
Ma’mūn, Abu Jafar al-
Marcellus
Marigny de Mandeville, Bernard Xavier Philippe de
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mathematics (Bergamini)
Maxwell, James Clerk
McGeehan, W. O.
Method, The (Archimedes)
Milgram, Stanley
mimesis
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Auerbach)
mirrors, in death ray device
Mismeasure of Woman, The (Tavris)
Mlodinow, Leonard
models
of disease spread
economic
Monge, Gaspard
mortality
mortgages
adjustable rate
MRSA
My Life in the Argentine Republic (Darbyshire)
Myronas, Johannes
Mythbusters
Napoléon I
NASA
Native American proverb
Netz, Reviel
Newton, Isaac
apple and
Hooke and
Nick the Greek
Night of the Living Dead
Numb3rs
ocean waves
Ochsendorf, John
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Opticks (Newton)
Orwell, George
Pacioli, Luca
parabolas
in Devil Dive ride
in Tower of Terror ride
Parque Güell
particle-spring modeling
Pascal, Blaise
Pasteur, Louis
pendulum
periodic functions
cosines, see cosines