The Philadelphia Story

Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn

Chapter 8 in 3.1416 And All That, 1985, pp 63-64 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A WHILE BACK, IN AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH to a scientific society, I told about new applications of mathematics, not to the physical sciences, but to the social and economic sciences. Since wives were present at the talk and since I wanted them to be able to follow the thread of my argument for at least five minutes, I tried to find a very simple application that they could easily comprehend. Now what is simpler than 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… ? Where do they see it applied? In bake shops, in meat counters; wherever there is a pile up of people who must be served in turn.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8519-0_8

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