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 inPhysics world Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 3 - 3iv
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.03.2021
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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
ISSN:0953-8585
2058-7058
DOI:10.1088/2058-7058/34/01/04