Horses for courses
What’s the ideal strategy to win a short-distance horse race – start off slow to conserve energy or go out hard and hope you have enough left in the tank for a final kick? Mathematicians Quentin Mercier and Amandine Aftalion from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris have n...
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Published in | Physics world Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 3 - 3iv |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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01.03.2021
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | What’s the ideal strategy to win a short-distance horse race – start off slow to conserve energy or go out hard and hope you have enough left in the tank for a final kick? Mathematicians Quentin Mercier and Amandine Aftalion from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris have now attempted to answer that question |
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ISSN: | 0953-8585 2058-7058 |
DOI: | 10.1088/2058-7058/34/01/04 |