A Tour Of The Calculus
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Author | : David Berlinski |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-04-27 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 030778973X |
Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall. Just how calculus makes these things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world is the subject of this dazzling book by a writer of extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio. Even as he initiates us into the mysteries of real numbers, functions, and limits, Berlinski explores the furthest implications of his subject, revealing how the calculus reconciles the precision of numbers with the fluidity of the changing universe. "An odd and tantalizing book by a writer who takes immense pleasure in this great mathematical tool, and tries to create it in others."--New York Times Book Review
Author | : Steven Henry Strogatz |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0547517653 |
A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the "New York Times."
Author | : David Berlinski |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1400079101 |
The acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Infinite Ascent offers an enlightening and enthralling tour of the basics of mathematics, and reveals a world of fascination in fundamental mathematical ideas. One, Two, Three is David Berlinski’s captivating exploration of the foundation of mathematics, its fundamental ideas, and why they matter. By unraveling the complex answers to these most elementary questions—What is a number? How do addition, subtraction, and other functions actually work? What are geometry and logic?—Berlinski reveals the intricacy behind their seemingly simple exteriors. Peppered with enlightening historical anecdotes and asides on some of history’s most fascinating mathematicians, One, Two, Three, revels in the beauty of numbers as Berlinski shows us how and why these often slippery concepts are as essential to the field of mathematics as to who we are.
Author | : Jennifer Ouellette |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-08-31 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1101459034 |
Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.
Author | : David Acheson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : MATHEMATICS |
ISBN | : 0198804547 |
"[Acheson] introduces the fundamental ideas of calculus through the story of how the subject developed, from approximating π to imaginary numbers, and from Newton's falling apple to the vibrations of an electric guitar."--Back cover
Author | : Frederick Shenstone Woods |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Calculus |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James J. Callahan |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2010-09-09 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 144197332X |
With a fresh geometric approach that incorporates more than 250 illustrations, this textbook sets itself apart from all others in advanced calculus. Besides the classical capstones--the change of variables formula, implicit and inverse function theorems, the integral theorems of Gauss and Stokes--the text treats other important topics in differential analysis, such as Morse's lemma and the Poincaré lemma. The ideas behind most topics can be understood with just two or three variables. The book incorporates modern computational tools to give visualization real power. Using 2D and 3D graphics, the book offers new insights into fundamental elements of the calculus of differentiable maps. The geometric theme continues with an analysis of the physical meaning of the divergence and the curl at a level of detail not found in other advanced calculus books. This is a textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, the physical sciences, and economics. Prerequisites are an introduction to linear algebra and multivariable calculus. There is enough material for a year-long course on advanced calculus and for a variety of semester courses--including topics in geometry. The measured pace of the book, with its extensive examples and illustrations, make it especially suitable for independent study.
Author | : James R. Kirkwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mathematical analysis |
ISBN | : 9781577662327 |
Author | : David Berlinski |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780434003693 |
Author | : Carl C. Gaither |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 2800 |
Release | : 2012-01-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461411149 |
This unprecedented collection of 27,000 quotations is the most comprehensive and carefully researched of its kind, covering all fields of science and mathematics. With this vast compendium you can readily conceptualize and embrace the written images of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets about humankind's scientific achievements. Approximately 9000 high-quality entries have been added to this new edition to provide a rich selection of quotations for the student, the educator, and the scientist who would like to introduce a presentation with a relevant quotation that provides perspective and historical background on his subject. Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Second Edition, provides the finest reference source of science quotations for all audiences. The new edition adds greater depth to the number of quotations in the various thematic arrangements and also provides new thematic categories.