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Encyclopedia of mathematics and society. Space, science and the environment / editors, Sarah J. Greenwald and Jill E. Thomley, Applachian State University.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Miscellanea--Encyclopedias.
- Mathematics.
- Space sciences--Mathematics--Encyclopedias.
- Space sciences.
- Science--Mathematics--Encyclopedias.
- Science.
- Environmental sciences--Mathematics--Encyclopedias.
- Environmental sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Other Title:
- Space, science, and the environment
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Covers mathematics as applied in space, science, and environmental science, including such aspects as black holes, coral reefs, wind power, lightning, black holes, and recycling.
- Contents:
- ""Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society: Space, Science, and the Environment""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Accident Reconstruction""; ""Animals""; ""Astronomy""; ""Bees""; ""Black Holes""; ""Brain""; ""Carbon Dating""; ""Carbon Footprint""; ""Caves and Caverns""; ""Chemotherapy""; ""Climate Change""; ""Clouds""; ""Coral Reefs""; ""Crystallography""; ""Deforestation""; ""Diagnostic Testing""; ""Disease Survival Rates""; ""Doppler Radar""; ""Earthquakes""; ""Elementary Particles""; ""Elevation""; ""Energy""; ""Extinction""; ""Farming""; ""Fertility""; ""Fingerprints""
- ""Firearms""""Floods""; ""Forest Fires""; ""Game Theory""; ""Genetics""; ""Geometry of the Universe""; ""Geothermal Energy""; ""Gravity""; ""Green Mathematics""; ""Growth Charts""; ""Hurricanes and Tornadoes""; ""Infectious Diseases, Tracking""; ""Intelligence Quotients""; ""Interplanetary Travel""; ""Joints""; ""LD50/Median Lethal Dose""; ""Life Expectancy""; ""Light""; ""Lightning""; ""Maps""; ""Molecular Structure""; ""Moon""; ""Nanotechnology""; ""Nervous System""; ""Nutrition""; ""Pacemakers""; ""Planetary Orbits""; ""Plate Tectonics""; ""Predator�Prey Models""; ""Pregnancy""
- ""Psychological Testing""""Radiation""; ""Recycling""; ""Relativity""; ""Satellites""; ""Solar Panels""; ""Stethoscopes""; ""Sunspots""; ""Synchrony and Spontaneous Order""; ""Telescopes""; ""Temperature""; ""Tides and Waves""; ""Transplantation""; ""Ultrasound""; ""Universal Constants""; ""Viruses""; ""Vision Correction""; ""Volcanoes""; ""Water Quality""; ""Weather Forecasting""; ""Weather Scales""; ""Weightless Flight""; ""Wind and Wind Power""; ""Resource Guide""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283803977
- 1283803976
- 9781429837590
- 1429837594
- OCLC:
- 820818927
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