Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Publisher's Note.
About the Editors.
Introduction.
List of Articles.
Topic Finder.
List of Contributors.
1: Accident Reconstruction.
2: Accounting.
3: Acrostics, Word Squares, and Crosswords.
4: Addition and Subtraction.
5: Advertising.
6: Africa, Central.
7: Africa, Eastern.
8: Africa, North.
9: Africa, Southern.
10: Africa, West.
11: African Mathematics.
12: Aircraft Design.
13: Airplanes/Flight.
14: Algebra and Algebra Education.
15: Algebra in Society.
16: Anesthesia.
17: Animals.
18: Animation and CGI.
19: Apgar Scores.
20: Arabic/Islamic Mathematics.
21: Archery.
22: Archimedes.
23: Arenas, Sports.
24: Artillery.
25: Asia, Central and Northern.
26: Asia, Eastern.
27: Asia, Southeastern.
28: Asia, Southern.
29: Asia, Western.
30: Astronomy.
31: Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project).
32: Auto Racing.
33: Axiomatic Systems.
34: Babylonian Mathematics.
35: Ballet.
36: Ballroom Dancing.
37: Bankruptcy, Business.
38: Bankruptcy, Personal.
39: Bar Codes.
40: Baseball.
41: Basketball.
42: Basketry.
43: Bees.
44: Betting and Fairness.
45: Bicycles.
46: Billiards.
47: Binomial Theorem.
48: Birthday Problem.
49: Black Holes.
50: Blackmun, Harry A..
51: Blackwell, David.
52: Board Games.
53: Body Mass Index.
54: Brain.
55: Bridges.
56: Budgeting.
57: Burns, Ursula.
58: Bus Scheduling.
59: Calculators in Classrooms.
60: Calculators in Society.
61: Calculus and Calculus Education.
62: Calculus in Society.
63: Calendars.
64: Canals.
65: Carbon Dating.
66: Carbon Footprint.
67: Careers.
68: Caribbean America.
69: Carpentry.
70: Castillo-Chávez, Carlos.
71: Castles.
72: Caves and Caverns.
73: Cell Phone Networks.
74: Census.
75: Central America.
76: Cerf, Vinton.
77: Cheerleading.
78: Chemotherapy.
79: Chinese Mathematics.
80: City Planning.
81: Civil War, U.S..
82: Climate Change.
83: Climbing.
84: Clocks.
85: Closed-Box Collecting.
86: Clouds.
87: Clubs and Honor Societies.
88: Cochlear Implants.
89: Cocktail Party Problem.
90: Coding and Encryption.
91: Cold War.
92: Comic Strips.
93: Communication in Society.
94: Comparison Shopping.
95: Competitions and Contests.
96: Composing.
97: Congressional Representation.
98: Conic Sections.
99: Connections in Society.
100: Contra and Square Dancing.
101: Cooking.
102: Coordinate Geometry.
103: Coral Reefs.
104: Coupons and Rebates.
105: Credit Cards.
106: Crime Scene Investigation.
107: Crochet and Knitting.
108: Crystallography.
109: Cubes and Cube Roots.
110: Currency Exchange.
111: Curricula, International.
112: Curriculum, College.
113: Curriculum, K–12.
114: Curves.
115: Dams.
116: Data Analysis and Probability in Society.
117: Data Mining.
118: Daubechies, Ingrid.
119: Deep Submergence Vehicles.
120: Deforestation.
121: Deming, W. Edwards.
122: Diagnostic Testing.
123: Dice Games.
124: Digital Book Readers.
125: Digital Cameras.
126: Digital Images.
127: Digital Storage.
128: Disease Survival Rates.
129: Diseases, Tracking Infectious.
130: Domes.
131: Doppler Radar.
132: Drug Dosing.
133: DVR Devices.
134: Earthquakes.
135: Educational Manipulatives.
136: Educational Testing.
137: EEG/EKG.
138: Egyptian Mathematics.
139: Einstein, Albert.
140: Elections.
141: Electricity.
142: Elementary Particles.
143: Elevation.
144: Elevators.
145: Energy.
146: Engineering Design.
147: Equations, Polar.
148: Escher, M.C..
149: Ethics.
150: Europe, Eastern.
151: Europe, Northern.
152: Europe, Southern.
153: Europe, Western.
154: Expected Values.
155: Exponentials and Logarithms.
156: Extinction.
157: Extreme Sports.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
1: Fantasy Sports Leagues.
2: Farming.
3: Fax Machines.
4: Fertility.
5: FICO Score.
6: File Downloading and Sharing.
7: Fingerprints.
8: Firearms.
9: Fireworks.
10: Fishing.
11: Floods.
12: Football.
13: Forecasting.
14: Forest Fires.
15: Fuel Consumption.
16: Function Rate of Change.
17: Functions.
18: Functions, Recursive.
19: Game Theory.
20: Garfield, Richard.
21: Genealogy.
22: Genetics.
23: Geometry and Geometry Education.
24: Geometry in Society.
25: Geometry of Music.
26: Geometry of the Universe.
27: Geothermal Energy.
28: Gerrymandering.
29: Golden Ratio.
30: Government and State Legislation.
31: GPS.
32: Graham, Fan Chung.
33: Graphs.
34: Gravity.
35: Greek Mathematics.
36: Green Design.
37: Green Mathematics.
38: Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
39: Growth Charts.
40: Gymnastics.
41: Harmonics.
42: Hawking, Stephen.
43: Helicopters.
44: Highways.
45: Hitting a Home Run.
46: HIV/AIDS.
47: Hockey.
48: Home Buying.
49: Houses of Worship.
50: HOV Lane Management.
51: Hunt, Fern.
52: Hurricanes and Tornadoes.
53: Incan and Mayan Mathematics.
54: Income Tax.
55: Industrial Revolution.
56: Infantry (Aerial and Ground Movements).
57: Infinity.
58: Insurance.
59: Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
60: Intelligence Quotients.
61: Interior Design.
62: Internet.
63: Interplanetary Travel.
64: Inventory Models.
65: Jackson, Shirley Ann.
66: Joints.
67: Kicking a Field Goal.
68: Knots.
69: Landscape Design.
70: LD50/Median Lethal Dose.
71: Learning Exceptionalities.
72: Learning Models and Trajectories.
73: Levers.
74: Life Expectancy.
75: Light.
76: Light Bulbs.
77: Lightning.
78: Limits and Continuity.
79: Linear Concepts.
80: Literature.
81: Loans.
82: Lotteries.
83: Lovelace, Ada.
84: Magic.
85: Mapping Coastlines.
86: Maps.
87: Marine Navigation.
88: Market Research.
89: Marriage.
90: Martial Arts.
91: Math Gene.
92: Mathematical Certainty.
93: Mathematical Friendships and Romances.
94: Mathematical Modeling.
95: Mathematical Puzzles.
96: Mathematician Defined.
97: Mathematicians, Amateur.
98: Mathematicians, Religious.
99: Mathematics, Applied.
100: Mathematics, Defined.
101: Mathematics, Elegant.
102: Mathematics, Theoretical.
103: Mathematics, Utility of.
104: Mathematics: Discovery or Invention.
105: Mathematics and Religion.
106: Mathematics Genealogy Project.
107: Mathematics Literacy and Civil Rights.
108: Mathematics Research, Interdisciplinary.
109: Matrices.
110: Mattresses.
111: Measurement, Systems of.
112: Measurement in Society.
113: Measurements, Area.
114: Measurements, Length.
115: Measurements, Volume.
116: Measures of Center.
117: Measuring Time.
118: Measuring Tools.
119: Medical Imaging.
120: Medical Simulations.
121: Microwave Ovens.
122: Middle Ages.
123: Military Draft.
124: Minorities.
125: Missiles.
126: Molecular Structure.
127: Money.
128: Moon.
129: Movies, Making of.
130: Movies, Mathematics in.
131: MP3 Players.
132: Multiplication and Division.
133: Musical Theater.
134: Mutual Funds.
135: Nanotechnology.
136: National Debt.
137: Native American Mathematics.
138: Nervous System.
139: Neural Networks.
140: Newman, Ryan.
141: Nielsen Ratings.
142: Normal Distribution.
143: North America.
144: Number and Operations.
145: Number and Operations in Society.
146: Number Theory.
147: Numbers, Complex.
148: Numbers, Rational and Irrational.
149: Numbers, Real.
150: Numbers and God.
151: Nutrition.
152: Oceania, Australia and New Zealand.
153: Oceania, Pacific Islands.
154: Optical Illusions.
155: Origami.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
1: Pacemakers.
2: Packing Problems.
3: Painting.
4: Parallel Postulate.
5: Parallel Processing.
6: Payroll.
7: Pearl Harbor, Attack on.
8: Pensions, IRAs, and Social Security.
9: Percussion Instruments.
10: Perimeter and Circumference.
11: Permutations and Combinations.
12: Perry, William J..
13: Personal Computers.
14: Pi.
15: Planetary Orbits.
16: Plate Tectonics.
17: Plays.
18: Poetry.
19: Polygons.
20: Polyhedra.
21: Polynomials.
22: Popular Music.
23: Predator–Prey Models.
24: Predicting Attacks.
25: Predicting Divorce.
26: Predicting Preferences.
27: Pregnancy.
28: Prehistory.
29: Probability.
30: Problem Solving in Society.
31: Professional Associations.
32: Proof.
33: Psychological Testing.
34: Pulleys.
35: Puzzles.
36: Pythagorean and Fibonacci Tuning.
37: Pythagorean School.
38: Pythagorean Theorem.
39: Quality Control.
40: Quilting.
41: Racquet Games.
42: Radiation.
43: Radio.
44: Raghavan, Prabhakar.
45: Randomness.
46: Rankings.
47: Reasoning and Proof in Society.
48: Recycling.
49: Relativity.
50: Religious Symbolism.
51: Religious Writings.
52: Renaissance.
53: Representations in Society.
54: Revolutionary War, U.S..
55: Ride, Sally.
56: Risk Management.
57: Robots.
58: Roller Coasters.
59: Roman Mathematics.
60: Ross, Mary G..
61: Ruler and Compass Constructions.
62: Sacred Geometry.
63: Sales Tax and Shipping Fees.
64: Sample Surveys.
65: Satellites.
66: Scales.
67: Scatterplots.
68: Scheduling.
69: Schools.
70: Science Fiction.
71: Sculpture.
72: Search Engines.
73: Segway.
74: Sequences and Series.
75: Servers.
76: Shipping.
77: Similarity.
78: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
79: Skating, Figure.
80: Skydiving.
81: Skyscrapers.
82: SMART Board.
83: Smart Cars.
84: Soccer.
85: Social Networks.
86: Software, Mathematics.
87: Solar Panels.
88: South America.
89: Spaceships.
90: Spam Filters.
91: Sport Handicapping.
92: Squares and Square Roots.
93: Stalactites and Stalagmites.
94: Statistics Education.
95: Step and Tap Dancing.
96: Stethoscopes.
97: Stock Market Indices.
98: Strategy and Tactics.
99: Street Maintenance.
100: String Instruments.
101: Stylometry.
102: Succeeding in Mathematics.
103: Sudoku.
104: Sunspots.
105: Surfaces.
106: Surgery.
107: Swimming.
108: Symmetry.
109: Synchrony and Spontaneous Order.
110: Tao, Terence.
111: Telephones.
112: Telescopes.
113: Television, Mathematics in.
114: Televisions.
115: Temperature.
116: Textiles.
117: Thermostat.
118: Tic-Tac-Toe.
119: Tides and Waves.
120: Time Signatures.
121: Toilets.
122: Tournaments.
123: Traffic.
124: Trains.
125: Transformations.
126: Transplantation.
127: Travel Planning.
128: Traveling Salesman Problem.
129: Trigonometry.
130: Tunnels.
131: Ultrasound.
132: Unemployment, Estimating.
133: Units of Area.
134: Units of Length.
135: Units of Mass.
136: Units of Volume.
137: Universal Constants.
138: Universal Language.
139: Vectors.
140: Vedic Mathematics.
141: Vending Machines.
142: Video Games.
143: Vietnam War.
144: Viruses.
145: Vision Correction.
146: Visualization.
147: Volcanoes.
148: Volleyball.
149: Voting Methods.
150: Water Distribution.
151: Water Quality.
152: Weather Forecasting.
153: Weather Scales.
154: Weightless Flight.
155: Wheel.
156: Wiles, Andrew.
157: Wind and Wind Power.
158: Wind Instruments.
159: Windmills.
160: Wireless Communication.
161: Women.
162: World War I.
163: World War II.
164: Wright, Frank Lloyd.
165: Writers, Producers, and Actors.
166: Zero.
Chronology of Mathematics.
Resource Guide.
Glossary.
Index.
Photo Credits.
