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Cocker, Edward
coffee
coin-and-feather experiment
cones
constant
Cook, James
Cordyceps fungi
cosines
hyperbolic (catenary)
cost
of housing
craps
curves
area under
circles
ellipses
hyperbolas
Newton and
parabolas, see parabolas
cycloid
Daily Beast
Daily Telegraph (London)
D’Alembert, Jean le Rond
Dandolos, Nicholas Andrea (“Nick the Greek”)
Darbyshire, Charles
Darwin, Charles
Dawn of the Dead
death
De Brosses, Charles
Defoe, Daniel
Delft University of Technology
Demauro, Patricia
derivatives
determining speed from position
diet and
energy and
evaporation rate and
finance and
in isoperimetric problem
known functions for
mortality and
Newton’s fluxion
partial
population and
sines and cosines and
Descartes, René
De Sluse, René François
Devil Dive
diegesis
diet pills
diets
Thermodynamics
differential calculus
differential equations, coupled system of
digital signal processing (DSP)
Dijksterhuis, Ap
diseases
Black Death
cholera
dracunculiasis
epidemiology and
flu
social networks and
virtual worlds and
zombie infection
Disney, Walt
Disneyland
Blue Bayou restaurant
Mad Tea Party ride
Space Mountain ride
Splash Mountain ride
Tower of Terror ride
domes
dracunculiasis
Drunkard’s Walk, The (Mlodinow)
Eagle, Nathan
economics
bubble markets
housing
mortgages
tulip mania
virtual
Edelmann, Geoffrey
education, see learning and education
Edward the Confessor
Einstein, Albert
Nick the Greek and
electricity
Elements (Euclid)
Eliot, T. S.
ellipses
energy
calories and
human-powered
entropy
epidemiology
equations
differential, coupled system of
Erdős, Paul
Euclid
Eudoxus of Cnidus
eugenics
Euler, Leonhard
Euler’s constant
evaporation
evolution
exercise
calories and
harvesting energy from
exponentials
decay curves
growth curves
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)
failure, in learning
fat, body
see also weight loss
Fefferman, Nina
FELs (free-electron lasers)
Fermat, Pierre de
Flamsteed, John
Fletcher, Horace
flu
food
calories and
diets
force
Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
Fourier transform
fractions
free fall
in Devil Dive ride
in Splash Mountain ride
in Tower of Terror ride
French Revolution
frequency
functions
acceleration, see acceleration
bell curve
catenary
constant
cosines
exponential, see exponentials
known
limit of
logarithmic
periodic
parabolic, see parabolas
position, see position
sines
speed (velocity), see speed
straight line
top ten
fungi, Cordyceps
Galileo
games of chance
Cardano and
craps
gambler’s ruin and
Kelly criterion and
probability and
problem of points in
Garces, Milton
gasoline usage
Gateway Arch
Gaudi, Antoni
Gehry, Frank
gender bias, in math and science
geometry
algebra linked to
Archimedes and
curves and
Germain, Sophie
g forces
Gidget
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilmore, Steve
Ginko Financial
Gombaud, Antoine
Gompertz, Benjamin
Good Math, Bad Math
Gould, Alistair
Graham, Sylvester
Grahame-Smith, Seth, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
graphs
gravity
amusement park rides and
g forces
surfing and
Gravity and Levity
Green Microgym
Green Revolution
Greenspan, Alan
Griffiths, John
Güell, Eusebi
guinea worm disease
Halmos, Paul
Halmstad
Harold, King
Harris-Benedict equation
Hārūn ar-Rashīd
Hatshepsut
Hauser, Gayelord
Hay, William H.
heat
calories and
Heaviside, Oliver
Heiberg, John Ludwig
Henry Works
Hiero of Syracuse
HIV
Hooke, Robert
House
housing
bubble
mortgages
How We Decide (Lehrer)
Huygens, Christian
hyperbolas
hyperbolic cosine (catenary)
I Ching
Infinitesimal Analysis (Smith)
infinitesimals
infinity
Archimedes and
Zeno and
innate ability
integral calculus
integrals
determining likelihood of winning in craps
determining position from speed
in Devil Dive ride
diet and
energy and
finance and
Fourier transform and
known functions for
sines and cosines and
in Space Mountain ride
in surfing
in Tower of Terror ride
interest rates
in adjustable