SOCCERMATICS: MATHEMATICAL ADVENTURES IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME(PREVIOUSLY TITLE: MORE THAN A GAME)
Book ID/图书代码： 02000015B83597
English Summary/英文概要： Football - the most mathematical of sports - is riddled with numbers, patterns and shapes. How to make sense of them? The answer lies in mathematical modelling, an applied science with applications in a host of biological systems. More than a Game brings the two together in a thrilling, mind-bending synthesis. What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style? How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically? And how can we relate the mechanics of a Mexican Wave to the singing of cicadas in an Australian valley? Welcome to the world of mathematical modelling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of football. Football - more than a game, and packed with game theory.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 足球 — — 是一项数学体育，你相信吗？从拍摄的统计数据和联赛积分表，到几何传球信息和管理策略，现代游戏中充满着数字、图案和形状。我们如何去理解这些的意义? 答案在于生物学、物理学和经济学中的应用的数学模型。《足球战术》令人费解的合成方式，将足球和数字融汇在一起，用数字来帮我们解开这场完美游戏的内部运作。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Sumpter’s deconstruction of formations proved why maths and football can’t live without each other. It’s every football nerd’s dream. (FourFourTwo)
...Highly readable... (The Irish Times)
...You will love this book. (The Tribune)
This is football looked at in a very different way. David Sumpter is mining a rich and deep seam here in Soccermatics, one that will become an increasingly important part of the game. (Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst)
A fascinating study of the structures and patterns that underpin football matches, with revealing and surprising conclusions. (Michael Cox, editor of Zonal Marking and Guardian Sports)
Soccermatics provides fresh insight into a game we’ve been watching all of our lives. But it’s more than a book about football and is all the better for it. (Adam Bate, football features writer for Sky Sports)
David Sumpter brings together his two passions, mathematics and football, in a highly original and entertaining way. The beautiful game illustrated through the beauty of mathematics. (Philip Maini FRS, Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford)
About the Author/作者介绍： David Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where he runs the Collective Behaviour Research Group. Originally from London, he studied his PhD in Mathematics at Manchester and has held academic research positions at both Oxford and Cambridge before heading to Sweden, where he lives with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he trains a successful 9-year old boys’ football team, Upsala IF 2005. An incomplete list of the applied maths research projects on which David has worked include pigeons flying in pairs over Oxford; clapping undergraduate students in the north of England; the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; fish swimming between coral in the Great Barrier Reef; swarms of locusts traveling across the Sahara; disease-spread in Ugandan villages; the gaze of London commuters; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built by Japanese slime moulds. His research has appeared in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Proceedings of the Royal Society, among many others. David is a Liverpool supporter. @djsumpter / collective-behavior.com
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