The Math of Hunting Lions
Bibliography of papers on math & physics methods of hunting lions in the Sahara Desert.
“A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting”, 1938
“Some Modern Mathematical Methods in the Theory of Lion Hunting”, 1968
“Further Techniques in the Theory of Big Game Hunting”, et al 1968
“Hogyan fogjunk oroszlánt? [How to catch a lion?]” (HU), 19992
“Big Game Hunting for Graduate Students in Mathematics”, 2009
History
Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits, 1996
Further Reading
Piffles: “On the enfeeblement of mathematical skills by ‘Modern Mathematics’ and by similar soft intellectual trash in schools and universities”, 1968 (Knuth highlights as also amusing: “A Note on Piffles”, 1967; “A rebuke of A. B. Smith’s paper, ‘A Note on Piffles’”, 1980)
t zero, Italo Calvino (possibly related)
Seven Years of Manifold: 1968–12198045ya; sometimes cited as Best Of Manifold.↩︎
Citation: Kós Géza1999-02, Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok v49 #2 p. 76–86↩︎