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Mathematics and Sports

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L. E. Sadovskii, Institute of Railroad Transportation Engineering, Moscow, Russia and A. L. Sadovskii, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX. Translated by S Makar-Limanov

Publication: Mathematical World
Publication Year: 1993; Volume 3
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-9500-9 (print); 978-1-4704-2471-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mawrld/003
MathSciNet review: MR1255518
MSC: Primary 00A69; Secondary 05A99, 60-01, 90C05, 90D40

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Chapters

• 1. Mathematics and sports (in place of a foreword) (chapter 1)
• 2. What is applied mathematics? (chapter 2)
• 3. Why five sets? (mathematical modeling of tennis) (chapter 3)
• 4. Those judges! (chapter 4)
• 5. Records! Records! (chapter 5)
• 6. Linear programming and sports (chapter 6)
• 7. Game models (chapter 7)
• 8. Organizing competitions is an operations planning problem (chapter 8)
• 9. Classifications in sports (chapter 9)
• 10. Conclusion (chapter 10)
• 11. References