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Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports
How can sprinter Usain Bolt break his world record without expending any additional effort? Which demands a faster reaction time, tennis or baseball? What dates of birth give rise to the best professional athletes? Is it better to have the inside or outside lane during a race? And how can you improve your balance just by changing your posture? Drawing on vivid, real-life e...more
Hardcover, 298 pages
Published
June 18th 2012
by W. W. Norton & Company
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Oh, how I wish I’d read this book prior to the London Olympics. The bulk of its chapters focus on Olympic events, or aspects thereof, and in many cases enhance one’s understanding of an event. There is, as the title implies, a great deal of mathematics in the book – not all of it is difficult to grasp, though some is certainly challenging, and the reader will encounter several of the basic principles of physics (drag, lift, gravitational pull, inertia, and so on).
Barrow explains things concisely...more
Barrow explains things concisely...more
Part of the long delay in reading this book is that the library took it from me before I was done and then they wouldn't give it back. "My audience is waiting," I tried to tell them (subconsciously), but they simply ignored that. So I had to wait weeks to get this book back in my hands.
My hope for this book was that I'd learn new and interesting things about a variety of sports, based in the language of mathmatics. When I started reading it, though, only the first amazing thing was really about...more
My hope for this book was that I'd learn new and interesting things about a variety of sports, based in the language of mathmatics. When I started reading it, though, only the first amazing thing was really about...more
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I was kind of expecting things to go more in depth. 100 chapters but about 2-3 pages per chapter. It makes the reading doable if you are not a math guy, but if you are, it left you wanting.
Fun book but I would only recommend it to those who like math/physics. Gives you some interesting things to think about.
Oriented toward UK sports (the author is British), but very interesting
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Fun book with a lot of interesting facts that was worth my time to skim, but sometimes it felt like he was just trying to see how many different calculus equations he could apply to different throwing sports.
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John D. Barrow is a professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
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