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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe ― A Down-to-Earth History of Math and Real-World Solutions - Softcover

Strogatz, Steven

 
9780358299288: Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe ― A Down-to-Earth History of Math and Real-World Solutions
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ISBN 10: 0358299284 ISBN 13: 9780358299288
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2020

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From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. 
 
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.

Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven Strogatz’s brilliantly creative, down-to-earth history shows that calculus is not about complexity; it’s about simplicity. It harnesses an unreal number—infinity—to tackle real-world problems, breaking them down into easier ones and then reassembling the answers into solutions that feel miraculous.

Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves (a phenomenon predicted by calculus). Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes “backwards” sometimes; how to make electricity with magnets; how to ensure your rocket doesn’t miss the moon; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.

As Strogatz proves, calculus is truly the language of the universe. By unveiling the principles of that language, Infinite Powers makes us marvel at the world anew. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

STEVEN STROGATZ is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has blogged about math for the New York Times and The New Yorker and has been a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday.
 

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0358299284
ISBN 13 
9780358299288
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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