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9780883853498

Mathematics and Sports

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  • ISBN13:

    9780883853498

  • ISBN10:

    0883853493

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-07-22
  • Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer

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Summary

This is an eclectic compendium of the essays solicited for the 2010 Mathematics Awareness Month Web page on the theme of 'Mathematics and Sports'. In keeping with the goal of promoting mathematics awareness to a broad audience, all of the articles are accessible to university-level mathematics students and many are accessible to the general public. The book is divided into sections by the kind of sports. The section on American football includes an article that evaluates a method for reducing the advantage of the winner to a coin flip in an NFL overtime game; the section on track and field examines the ultimate limit on how fast a human can run 100 metres; the section on baseball includes an article on the likelihood of streaks; the section on golf has an article that describes the double-pendulum model of a golf swing and an article on modelling Tiger Woods' career.

Table of Contents

Preface
Baseball
Sabermetrics: the past, the present, and the future
Surprising streaks and playoff parity: probability problems in a sports context
Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field?
Streaking: finding the probability for a batting streak
Basketball
Bracketology: how can math help?
Down 4 with a minute to go
Jump shot mathematics
Football
How deep is your playbook?
A look at overtime in the NFL
Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings
When perfect isn't good enough: retrodictive rankings in college football
Golf
The science of a drive
Is Tiger Woods a winner?
G. H. Hardy's golfing adventure
Tigermetrics
NASCAR
Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR
Scheduling
Scheduling a tournament
Soccer
Bending a soccer ball with math
Tennis
Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis
Percentage play in tennis
Track and Field
The effects of altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries
Mathematical ranking of the Division III Track and Field Conferences
What is the speed limit for Men's 100 Meter Dash?
May the best team win: determining the winner of a cross country race
Biomechanics of running and walking
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