When to cut corners and when not to

DOI10.1007/S00283-013-9427-ZzbMATH Open1398.70003OpenAlexW1965521473MaRDI QIDQ483360FDOQ483360

Authors: Pratik Mandrekar, Toby Joseph 

Publication date: 17 December 2014

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9427-z

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-02) Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems (70E99)

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