The Science of Soccer

John Wesson

210 pages, parution le 07/02/2003

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Résumé

Soccer has recently been the focus of worldwide interest, with the World Cup taking place in Korea and Japan. Brazilian artists Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Carlos took back their crown from the disappointing, unmotivated French, who had concentrated their efforts into the marketing of their image, and revealed themselves to be unable to play without their leader Zinedine Zidane. Now that the excitement has dropped and that we have come back to everyday life (for those like me who are not on vacation), the publication of John Wesson's popular-science book is a pleasant surprise: in less than 200 very clear and nicely written pages, this retired theoretical physicist describes the mechanical details of the motion of the ball (both from a solid and fluid point of view), and funny probabilistic considerations associated with soccer.

The book mentions that the author played soccer up to his retirement, and is now playing golf, tennis, table tennis and bowls. This promises forthcoming books which will be of great interest.

John Wesson has written here a unique book showing great skill in mathematics and physics, and a perfect knowledge of soccer and of its rules. This book should be read by anybody with a basic scientific background interested in ball games.

Contents

The Ball and the Bounce
The Kick
Throwing, Heading, Catching
The Ball in the Flight
The Laws
Game Theory
The Best Team
The Players
Economics
Mathematics

L'auteur - John Wesson

John Wesson est physicien théoricien des plasmas en Angleterre. Il a également appliqué les mathématiques à des sujets aussi différents que l'économie ou le golf.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Auteur(s)	John Wesson
Parution	07/02/2003
Nb. de pages	210
Format	13,8 x 21,7
Couverture	Broché
Poids	312g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750308137
ISBN13	978-0-7503-0813-7