The Math of Hunting Lions
Bibliography of papers on math & physics methods of hunting lions in the Sahara Desert.
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“A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting”, 1938
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“Some Modern Mathematical Methods in the Theory of Lion Hunting”, 1968
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“Further Techniques in the Theory of Big Game Hunting”, et al 1968
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“Hogyan fogjunk oroszlánt? [How to catch a lion?]” (HU), 19992
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“Big Game Hunting for Graduate Students in Mathematics”, 2009
History
Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits, 1996
Further Reading
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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)
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t zero, Italo Calvino (possibly related)
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Seven Years of Manifold: 1968–12198045ya; sometimes cited as Best Of Manifold.↩︎
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Citation: Kós Géza1999-02, Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok v49 #2 p. 76–86↩︎