The Handy Math Answer Book

Fisher’s Fundamental

Theorem of Natural

Selection, 316

Haldane, John, 316

Human Genome Project,

317, 318

mathematical, 314–15

Mendel, Gregor, 315 (ill.),

315–16

population dynamics, 315

Birth rate, 381

Bisect, 177, 177 (ill.)

Bivariate, 139

Blood pressure, 406, 406

(ill.)

Bode, Johann Elert, 291

Body temperature, 405

Bohr, Neils, 34, 283

Bolyai, János, 30, 206

Bondone, Giotto di, 374, 374

(ill.)

Bookkeeping, 391

Boole, George, 30–31, 33,

105, 106, 162

Boolean algebra, 162

Boundary condition, 234

Boundary value problems,

234

Bounds of a sequence, 214

Brahe, Tycho, 288

Breaths, 440

Bridge, 431–32

Briggs, Henry, 145–46

British Columbia Institute of

Technology, 460

British Society for the Histo-

ry of Mathematics(Web

site), 461

Broderick, Matthew, 457

Broglie, Prince Louis Victor

Pierre Raymond de, 283

Brunelleschi, Filippo, 374

Building fractions, 100–101

Bureau of Justice Statistics,

393–95

Bürgi, Joost, 145–46

Bush, Vannevar, 362, 363

(ill.)

Business and economics. See

alsoConsumer money

accounting, 391

econometrics, 391

economic indicators, 392

economics, 391

interest, 388–89

market indexes, 391

money, 387–88

stock market, 390–91

supply and demand, 390

Byron, Ada Augusta, 357

Byron, Lord George Gordon

Noel, 357

C

Calculators, 146 (ill.),

359–60

Calculi, 348

Calculus. See alsoDifferen-

tial calculus; Differential

equations; Integral calcu-

lus; Mathematical analysis;

Vectors

categories of, 212–13

concept of bound, 221

continuous, 221

definition of “the” calcu-

lus, 217

discontinuous, 221

forms of, 209

horizontal asymptotes,

219–20, 220 (ill.)

“if and only if” (iff), 221

infinitesimal, 220–21

infinity and limits, 218

(ill.), 218–19

left- and right-limits, 218

limits, 217–20, 218 (ill.)

Newton, Sir Isaac, 27

vertical asymptotes, 219,

219 (ill.)

Calendars

connection with mathe-

matics, 59

Greek, 20

Gregorian, 62, 63

invention of, 59–60

Julian, 62, 63

lunar-based, 60

modern, 63–64

refinement of, 61

Roman, 62

solar-based, 60–61

western, 61

world, 64

Call numbers, 399

Calories, 287

Canadian Mathematical

Society, 447

Cantor, George Ferdinand

Ludwig Philipp

infinity, 80, 129

set theory, 31, 33, 122,

123, 124

Capacitor, 340

Car windshields, 436

Carat, 299–300

Carboniferous Era, 298 (ill.)

Cardano, Girolamo, 25,

76–77

Cardinal numbers, 79–81,

80–81 (table), 126

Cards, 431–32

Careers, 443–44, 444 (ill.)

Carpeting, 400, 400 (ill.)

Carroll, Lewis, 162, 163 (ill.),

426

Carry, 92

Cartesian coordinates,

25–26, 193, 195

Cartesian geometry, 192

Cartesian plane, 195

Cartesian space, 170–71

The Cartoon Guide to Statis-

tics(Gonick and Smith),

454

Casino, 432–33, 433 (ill.)

Cataldi, Pietro, 85

Catastrophe theory, 35

Cats, 408, 408 (table)

Cavalieri, Bonaventura, 210

Cayley, Arthur, 157

Celsius, Anders, 54

Celsius scale, 54

Cenozoic Era, 298 (ill.)

Cental, 47

Center, 184, 184 (ill.)

Centimillion, 52

Central angle of a circle, 184

Ceres, 30

Chain rules for derivatives,

226

486 Chance, 248

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