Notes

1. Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist (Random House, 2005).

2. Leonard Ciavattone, Alfred Morton, and Gomathi Ramachandran, “Standardized Active Measurements on a Tier 1 IP Backbone,” IEEE Communications Magazine (June 2003).

3. Nimrod Megiddo and Kenneth J. Supowit, “On the Complexity of Some Common Geometric Location Problems,” SIAM Journal of Computing, Vol. 13, No. 1, February, 1984, pp. 182-196. www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shai/cs886-F06/complexity_geometric.pdf

4. Pieter Merkus Lambertus Tammes, “On the Origin of Number and Arrangement of the Places of Exit on the Surface of Pollen-Grains” (Dissertation, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1930), pp. 77-78 indexed at http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/science/1930/p.m.l.tammes/?pLanguage=en&pFullItemRecord=ON with an abstract at http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/science/1930/p.m.l.tammes/Tammes.pdf.

5. See “Figure 9: Baryon Density Isosurface for a B=97 Skyrmion with Icosahedral Symmetry,” in Michael Atiyah and Paul Sutcliffe, “Polyhedra in Physics, Chemistry, and Geometry.” http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math-ph/pdf/0303/0303071v1.pdf.

6. Yoshinori Teshima and Tohru Ogawa “Dense Packing of Equal Circles on a Sphere by the Minimum-Zenith Method: Symmetrical Arrangement,” Forma 15 (2000): 347–364. www.scipress.org/journals/forma/pdf/1504/15040347.pdf.

7. Joe Weinman, “As Time Goes By: The Law of Cloud Response Time,” Working Paper, April 12, 2011.

8. http://web.mit.edu/press/2011/trillion-fps-camera.html ...

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