1: Infinity 2: The Man Who Harnessed Infinity 3: Discovering the Laws of Motion 4: The Dawn of Differential Calculus 5: The Crossroads 6: The Vocabulary of Change 7: The Secret Fountain 8: Fictions of the Mind 9: The Logical Universe 10: Making Waves 11: The Future of Calculus
Steven Strogatz is the professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world's most highly cited mathematicians, he is the author of the bestselling The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity.
Warning: this book is dangerous. It will make you love mathematics.
Even more, there is a nonzero risk it will turn you into a
mathematician.
*Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan*
Fascinating reading.
*Scientific American*
Eloquent, erudite and charming. A remarkable story. Strogatz is a
world class mathematician and a world class science writer. With a
light touch and razor-sharp clarity, he tells the remarkable story
of a mathematical breakthrough that changed the world - and
continues to do so.
*Alex Bellos, bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in
Numberland*
Glorious! A master class in accessible maths writing and a perfect
read for anyone who feels like they never quite understood what all
the fuss was about. It had me leaping for joy.
*Hannah Fry, bestselling author of Hello World and presenter of BBC
R4’s The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry*
Simple, lucid, amusing, informative, and a pleasure to read. If you
want to know where calculus came from, how it works, what it's good
for, and where it's going next, this is the book for you.
*Professor Ian Stewart, author of Significant Figures*
A fine, thoughtful attempt to make the greatest stories relating to
calculus accessible... After reading Infinite Powers, we should no
longer fear calculus.
*Literary Review*
The most fascinating book I have ever read. If you have even the
slightest curiosity about maths and its role in this world, I
implore you to read this amazing book.
*Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education, Stanford
University*
A wide-ranging, humane, thoroughly readable take on one of the
greatest ideas our species has ever produced.
*Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong*
Fascinating anecdotes abound in Infinite Powers... [Strogatz] has
written a romp through the history of calculus.
*Nature*
A tour de force. Elegant and ebullient. Strogatz speaks to
everyone, reminding us why mathematics matters in a practical sense
while all the time highlighting its beauty.
*Lisa Randall, Professor of Physics at Harvard University and
author of Dark Matter and The Dinosaurs*
A highly readable account of calculus and its modern applications -
all done with the human touch.
*Dr David Acheson, Emeritus Fellow, Oxford University and author of
The Calculus Story*
An incalculable pleasure. If calculus is the language of the
universe, then Steven Strogatz is its Homer.
*Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness*
In this engaging book, Steven Strogatz illuminates the importance
of calculus and explains its mysteries as only he can.
*Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe*
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