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Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus , The Language of the Universe

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Steven Strogatz

 

  • Shortlistedd for the royal society Science book Prize 2019

 

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

 

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

 

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 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

 

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

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A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world’s foremost mathematicians.

This is the captivating story of mathematics’ greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death.

Taking us on a thrilling journey through three millennia, professor Steven Strogatz charts the development of this seminal achievement from the days of Archimedes to today’s breakthroughs in chaos theory and artificial intelligence. Filled with idiosyncratic characters from Pythagoras to Fourier, Infinite Powers is a compelling human drama that reveals the legacy of calculus on nearly every aspect of modern civilisation, including science, politics, medicine, philosophy, and much besides.

 

About the Author

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.

 

Book Specifications

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Published Year: 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786492975

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