Mrs. Perkins's electric quilt
In a series of brief and largely self-contained chapters, Nahin discusses a wide range of topics in which math and physics are mutually dependent and mutually illuminating, from Newtonian gravity and Newton's laws of mechanics to ballistics, air drag, and electricity. The mathematical subjects range from algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus to differential equations, Fourier series, and theoretical and Monte Carlo probability. --from publisher description.
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- I bought it, but I only read a chapter of it, after seeing it in a bookstore. Nonetheless:
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics by Paul J. Nahin
It sounds like it's at about the right difficulty/knowledge level, and it has interesting stuff, isn't a boring textbook.
- I basically discovered Vernor Vinge.
A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
The Peace War, by Vernor Vinge
Marooned in Realtime, by Vernor Vinge
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, a fun book about some math and physics problems
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