03423nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-54082-0 DE-He213 20251030111820.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240416s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031540820 978-3-031-54082-0 10.1007/978-3-031-54082-0 doi QA93 PB bicssc MAT000000 bisacsh PB thema Aftalion, Amandine. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75251 Be a Champion [electronic resource] : 40 Facts You Didn't Know About Sports and Science / by Amandine Aftalion. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Copernicus, 2024. XII, 177 p. 77 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Copernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World, 2731-8990 Preface -- 1. Running -- 2. Throwing -- 3. Balls -- 4. Water, Wind and Cold -- 5. Rotating -- 6. Counting. 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 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. Mathematics. 65523 Sports sciences. 67947 Mathematics in Popular Science. 75252 Sport Science. 68591 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031540813 Printed edition: 9783031540837 Copernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World, 2731-8990 67839 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54082-0 ZDB-2-SMA ZDB-2-SXMS 59157 59157