Mathematics and Sports
About this Title
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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/mawrld/003
MathSciNet review: MR1255518
MSC: Primary 00A69; Secondary 05A99, 60-01, 90C05, 90D40
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
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
