Modeling Reality with Mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / by Alfio Quarteroni

• Record Nr.: UNISA996503550503316
• Autore: Quarteroni Alfio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• ISBN: 3-030-96162-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (136 pages)
• Disciplina: 929.605
• Soggetti: Mathematical models; Algorithms; Mathematics - Data processing; Numerical analysis; Epidemiology; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Computational Science and Engineering; Numerical Analysis; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Models matemàtics; Algorismes; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 The model, aka the magic box -- 2 Weather Forecast Models -- 3 Epidemics: the Mathematics of Contagion -- 4 Mathematical Hearth -- 5 Mathematics in the Wind -- 6 Flying on Sun Power -- 7 The taste for Mathematics -- 8 Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: Simulating the behavior of a human heart, predicting tomorrow's weather, optimizing the aerodynamics of a sailboat, finding the ideal cooking time for a hamburger: to solve these problems, cardiologists, meteorologists, sportsmen, and engineers can count on math help. This book will lead you to the discovery of a magical world, made up of equations, in which a huge variety of important problems for our life ; can find useful answers.