The Spherical Cow is a physics classic, invoked in every introductory course as a way of simplifying an intractable problem down to something you can actually solve. Now that concept is running, but ...
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Accompanied by: The dynamic environment : computer models to accompany Consider a spherical cow / Leonard Soltzberg. Sausalito, Calif. : University Science Books, c1996.
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