The Calculus Diaries - Jennifer Ouellette [116]
I.Q.
irrational numbers
Isler, Heinz
isoperimetric problem
Jevons, W. S.
Joule, James Prescott
joules
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of the Plague Years, A (Defoe)
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP)
Kelly, John L.
Kelly criterion
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
Kerner, Boris
Kilian, Axel
King, James
King’s College
Kitasato, Shibasaburo
Kolata, Gina
Kresge Auditorium
Krumholtz, David
Kwarizmi, Abu Jafar al-
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de
Larrick, Richard
La Sagrada Familia
learning and education
failure and
gender bias and
innate ability and
Pestalozzi and
Lehrer, Jonah
Lehrer, Tom
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leonardo da Vinci
L’Hôpital, Guillaume Françoise Antoine, Marquis de
Lilly, William
limit
finding
Lincoln, Abraham
Linden Labs
Lockery, Shawn
Lofgren, Eric
logarithms
Los Angeles Wheelmen
Louis-Philippe, Duc d’Orléans
Luxor Hotel
Mackay, Charles
Mad Tea Party
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Malthusian factor
Ma’mūn, Abu Jafar al-
Marcellus
Marigny de Mandeville, Bernard Xavier Philippe de
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mathematics (Bergamini)
Maxwell, James Clerk
McGeehan, W. O.
Method, The (Archimedes)
Milgram, Stanley
mimesis
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Auerbach)
mirrors, in death ray device
Mismeasure of Woman, The (Tavris)
Mlodinow, Leonard
models
of disease spread
economic
Monge, Gaspard
mortality
mortgages
adjustable rate
MRSA
My Life in the Argentine Republic (Darbyshire)
Myronas, Johannes
Mythbusters
Napoléon I
NASA
Native American proverb
Netz, Reviel
Newton, Isaac
apple and
Hooke and
Nick the Greek
Night of the Living Dead
Numb3rs
ocean waves
Ochsendorf, John
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Opticks (Newton)
Orwell, George
Pacioli, Luca
parabolas
in Devil Dive ride
in Tower of Terror ride
Parque Güell
particle-spring modeling
Pascal, Blaise
Pasteur, Louis
pendulum
periodic functions
cosines, see cosines
sines
Pestalozzi, Johann
Peters, Lulu Hunt
Philip, King
physics
π
Pines Calyx
Pirates of Penzance, The (Gilbert and Sullivan)
plague
Plane Loci (Apollonius of Perga)
Plato
Plutarch
pneumonic plague
Poetics (Aristotle)
population
position
determining, from speed
determining speed from
in Devil Dive ride
in Space Mountain ride
in surfing
in Tower of Terror ride
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Grahame-Smith)
Principia (Newton)
Principle of Population, The (Malthus)
probability
Buffon’s needle and
sample space in
Psychological Science
Pullman, Philip
pyramid
rational numbers
Recorde, Robert
Rees, Peter
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (Carnot)
ReRev.com
Robespierre, Maximilien
Rogent, Elies
Romero, George
Roughing It (Twain)
roundworms
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Ruth, Babe
Saarinen, Eero
sample space
Saturn
Science
Scripps Institute
Second Life
Seife, Charles
septicemic plague
Short, Thomas
sigmoid curve
Simond, Paul-Louis
sines
sinusoids
six degrees of separation
Six Flags
$64,000 Question, The
Smart Cars and Smart Roads
Smith, Reginald
Smith?, Robert
Smith, William Benjamin
Snow, John
social networks
Soll, Jack
sound waves
digital signal processing and
Southern Fried Science
Space Mountain
Spectator
speed (velocity)
determining, from position
determining position from
in Devil Dive ride
evaporation rate and
in Space Mountain ride
in surfing
in Tower of Terror ride
speed limits on highways
speedometers
Splash Mountain
Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art and Architecture (Calter)
Standard Mathematical Tables
Staphylococcus aureus
Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith
steam engines
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
step reckoner
stereotype threat
straight line
finding slope of
sunsets
surfing
Sustainable Dance Club
Swyers, Kenneth
Taft, William Howard
Taggett, Mike
tangents
Tavris, Carol
Thermodynamics Diet
“Thoughts About Dice Games” (Galileo)
Tour of the Calculus, A (Berlinski)
Tower