Overview
- Aimed at people who watch or practice sports and ask themselves "why" certain things occur
- A popular science book which is simple and pleasant to read
- Provides a series of examples of physics or math in action for a broad audience
Part of the book series: Copernicus Books (CB)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Why do you lean in a bend? Why does a sprinter slow down before the finish line? Why do golf balls have dimples? Why do you swim better slightly underwater? Why, on a bike, the faster you go, the more stable you are? Why shouldn’t you rely on doping tests too much? Is there a law of evolution of records?
These are some of the 40 questions that Amandine Aftalion answers in this book using simple physics and mathematics, and some humor. Not only will it allow you to improve yourself in sports, but it will also but it will also give way to understanding how champions do.
An easy book to read and the must to have if you are a sports addict or if you watch sports on TV and ask yourself “why?”.
Amandine Aftalion is a French mathematician. She is a CNRS senior scientist and graduated from École normale supérieure in Paris. She has given talks all over the world, as a specialist of models coming from low temperature physics. She has written a book on vortices in Bose–Einstein condensates. More recently, she has used energy minimization to study an optimal control problem coming from human energy: optimizing running. She has written papers on sports aimed at coaches. Part of her latest results have inspired the first chapter of this book.
She is the producer and director of a French YouTube channel for the popularization of mathematics, Videodimath, elected as one of the 5 best French YouTube channels for popular mathematics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Amandine Aftalion is a French mathematician. She is a CNRS senior scientist and graduated from École normale supérieure in Paris. She has given talks all over the world, as a specialist of models coming from low temperature physics. She has written a book on vortices in Bose–Einstein condensates. More recently, she has used energy minimization to study an optimal control problem coming from human energy: optimizing running. She has written papers on sports aimed at coaches. Part of her latest results have inspired the first chapter of this book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Be a Champion
Book Subtitle: 40 Facts You Didn't Know About Sports and Science
Authors: Amandine Aftalion
Series Title: Copernicus Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54082-0
Publisher: Copernicus Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54081-3Published: 17 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54082-0Published: 16 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-8982
Series E-ISSN: 2731-8990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 77 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: English translation of the original French edition "Pourquoi est-on Penche dans les Virages," published by CNRS Editions, Paris, 2023
Topics: Mathematics, general, Sport Science