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Encyclopedia of Mathematics & Society

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Table of Contents: Encyclopedia of Mathematics & Society



Accident Reconstruction



Accounting



Acrostics, Word Squares, and Crosswords



Addition and Subtraction



Advertising



Africa, Central



Africa, Eastern



Africa, North



Africa, Southern



Africa, West



African Mathematics



Aircraft Design



Airplanes/Flight



Algebra and Algebra Education



Algebra in Society



Anesthesia



Animals



Animation and CGI



Apgar Scores



Arabic/Islamic Mathematics



Archery



Archimedes



Arenas, Sports



Artillery



Asia, Central and Northern



Asia, Eastern



Asia, Southeastern



Asia, Southern



Asia, Western



Astronomy



Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project)



Auto Racing



Axiomatic Systems



Babylonian Mathematics



Ballet



Ballroom Dancing



Bankruptcy, Business



Bankruptcy, Personal



Bar Codes



Baseball



Basketball



Basketry



Bees



Betting and Fairness



Bicycles



Billiards



Binomial Theorem



Birthday Problem



Black Holes



Blackmun, Harry A.



Blackwell, David



Board Games



Body Mass Index



Brain



Bridges



Budgeting



Burns, Ursula



Bus Scheduling



Calculators in Classroom



Calculators in Society



Calculus and Calculus Education



Calculus in Society



Calendars



Canals



Carbon Dating



Carbon Footprint



Careers



Caribbean America



Carpentry



Castillo-Chávez, Carlos



Castles



Caves and Caverns



Cell Phone Networks



Census



Central America



Cerf, Vinton



Cheerleading



Chemotherapy



Chinese Mathematics



City Planning



Civil War, U.S.



Climate Change



Climbing



Clocks



Closed-Box Collecting



Clouds



Clubs and Honor Societies



Cochlear Implants



Cocktail Party Problem



Coding and Encryption



Cold War



Comic strips



Communication in Society



Comparison Shopping



Competitions and Contests



Composing



Congressional Representation



Conic Sections



Connections in Society



Contra and Square Dancing



Cooking



Coordinate Geometry



Coral Reefs



Coupons and Rebates



Credit Cards



Crime Scene Investigation



Crochet and Knitting



Crystallography



Cubes and Cube Roots



Currency Exchange



Curricula, International



Curriculum, College



Curriculum, K–12



Curves



Dams



Data Analysis and Probability in Society



Data Mining



Daubechies, Ingrid



Deep Submergence Vehicles



Deforestation



Deming, W. Edwards



Diagnostic Testing



Dice Games



Digital Book Readers



Digital Cameras



Digital Images



Digital Storage



Disease Survival Rates



Diseases, Tracking Infectious



Domes



Doppler Radar



Drug Dosing



DVR Devices



Earthquakes



Educational Manipulatives



Educational Testing



EEG/EKG



Egyptian Mathematics



Einstein, Albert



Elections



Electricity



Elementary Particles



Elevation



Elevators



Energy



Engineering Design



Equations, Polar



Escher, M.C.



Ethics



Europe, Eastern



Europe, Northern



Europe, Southern



Europe, Western



Expected Values



Exponentials and Logarithms



Extinction



Extreme Sports



Fantasy Sports Leagues



Farming



Fax Machines



Fertility



FICO Score



File Downloading and Sharing



Fingerprints



Firearms



Fireworks



Fishing



Floods



Football



Forecasting



Forest Fires



Fuel Consumption



Function Rate of Change



Functions



Functions, Recursive



Game Theory



Garfield, Richard



Genealogy



Genetics



Geometry and Geometry Education



Geometry in Society



Geometry of Music



Geometry of the Universe



Geothermal Energy



Gerrymandering



Golden Ratio



Government and State Legislation



GPS



Graham, Fan Chung



Graphs



Gravity



Greek Mathematics



Green Design



Green Mathematics



Gross Domestic Product (GDP)



Growth Charts



Gymnastics



Harmonics



Hawking, Stephen



Helicopters



Highways



Hitting a Home Run



HIV/AIDS



Hockey



Home Buying



Houses of Worship



HOV Lane Management



Hunt, Fern



Hurricanes and Tornadoes



Incan and Mayan Mathematics



Income Tax



Industrial Revolution



Infantry (Aerial and Ground Movements)



Infinity



Insurance



Intelligence and Counterintelligence



Intelligence Quotients



Interior Design



Internet



Interplanetary Travel



Inventory Models



Jackson, Shirley Ann



Joints



Kicking a Field Goal



Knots



Landscape Design



LD50/Median Lethal Dose



Learning Exceptionalities



Learning Models and Trajectories



Levers



Life Expectancy



Light



Light Bulbs



Lightning



Limits and Continuity



Linear Concepts



Literature



Loans



Lotteries



Lovelace, Ada



Magic



Mapping Coastlines



Maps



Marine Navigation



Market Research



Marriage



Martial Arts



Math Gene



Mathematical Certainty



Mathematical Friendships and Romances



Mathematical Modeling



Mathematical Puzzles



Mathematician Defined



Mathematicians, Amateur



Mathematicians, Religious



Mathematics, Applied



Mathematics, Defined



Mathematics, Elegant



Mathematics, Theoretical



Mathematics, Utility of



Mathematics: Discovery or Invention



Mathematics and Religion



Mathematics Genealogy Project



Mathematics Literacy and Civil Rights



Mathematics Research, Interdisciplinary



Matrices



Mattresses



Measurement, Systems of



Measurement in Society



Measurements, Area



Measurements, Length



Measurements, Volume



Measures of Center



Measuring Time



Measuring Tools



Medical Imaging



Medical Simulations



Microwave Ovens



Middle Ages



Military Draft



Minorities



Missiles



Molecular Structure



Money



Moon



Movies, Making of



Movies, Mathematics in



MP3 Players



Multiplication and Division



Musical Theater



Mutual Funds



Nanotechnology



National Debt



Native American Mathematics



Nervous System



Neural Networks



Newman, Ryan



Nielsen Ratings



Normal Distribution



North America



Number and Operations



Number and Operations in Society



Number Theory



Numbers, Complex



Numbers, Rational and Irrational



Numbers, Real



Numbers and God



Nutrition



Oceania, Australia and New Zealand



Oceania, Pacific Islands



Optical Illusions



Origami



Pacemakers



Packing Problems



Painting



Parallel Postulate



Parallel Processing



Payroll



Pearl Harbor, Attack on



Pensions, IRAs, and Social Security



Percussion Instruments



Perimeter and Circumference



Permutations and Combinations



Perry, William J.



Personal Computers



Pi



Planetary Orbits



Plate Tectonics



Plays



Poetry



Polygons



Polyhedra



Polynomials



Popular Music



Predator–Prey Models



Predicting Attacks



Predicting Divorce



Predicting Preferences



Pregnancy



Prehistory



Probability



Problem Solving in Society



Professional Associations



Proof



Psychological Testing



Pulleys



Puzzles



Pythagorean and Fibonacci Tuning



Pythagorean School



Pythagorean Theorem



Quality Control



Quilting



Racquet Games



Radiation



Radio



Raghavan, Prabhakar



Randomness



Rankings



Reasoning and Proof in Society



Recycling



Relativity



Religious Symbolism



Religious Writings



Renaissance



Representations in Society



Revolutionary War, U.S.



Ride, Sally



Risk Management



Robots



Roller Coasters



Roman Mathematics



Ross, Mary G.



Ruler and Compass Constructions



Sacred Geometry



Sales Tax and Shipping Fees



Sample Surveys



Satellites



Scales



Scatterplots



Scheduling



Schools



Science Fiction



Sculpture



Search Engines



Segway



Sequences and Series



Servers



Shipping



Similarity



Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon



Skating, Figure



Skydiving



Skyscrapers



SMART Board



Smart Cars



Soccer



Social Networks



Software, Mathematics



Solar Panels



South America



Spaceships



Spam Filters



Sport Handicapping



Squares and Square Roots



Stalactites and Stalagmites



Statistics Education



Step and Tap Dancing



Stethoscopes



Stock Market Indices



Strategy and Tactics



Street Maintenance



String Instruments



Stylometry



Succeeding in Mathematics



Sudoku



Sunspots



Surfaces



Surgery



Swimming



Symmetry



Synchrony and Spontaneous Order



Tao, Terence



Telephones



Telescopes



Television, Mathematics in



Televisions



Temperature



Textiles



Thermostat



Tic-Tac-Toe



Tides and Waves



Time Signatures



Toilets



Tournaments



Traffic



Trains



Transformations



Transplantation



Travel Planning



Traveling Salesman Problem



Trigonometry



Tunnels



Ultrasound



Unemployment, Estimating



Units of Area



Units of Length



Units of Mass



Units of Volume



Universal Constants



Universal Language



Vectors



Vedic Mathematics



Vending Machines



Video Games



Vietnam War



Viruses



Vision Correction



Visualization



Volcanoes



Volleyball



Voting Methods



Water Distribution



Water Quality



Weather Forecasting



Weather Scales



Weightless Flight



Wheel



Wiles, Andrew



Wind and Wind Power



Wind Instruments



Windmills



Wireless Communication



Women



World War I



World War II



Wright, Frank Lloyd



Writers, Producers, and Actors



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