Paul J. Nahin
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the leat amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows look like in the future? Why do soap bubbles have a shape that gives them the least area? By combining the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples, Paul J. Nahin answers these intriguing questions and more inextremes-with values becoming as small (or ...