Penguin Books | 2010 | 338 páginas | rar - pdf | 1,5 Mb
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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.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue: I Could Be Mathier 1
To Infinity and Beyond 11
Drive Me Crazy 40
Casino Royale 65
The Devil’s Playground 93
Show Me the Money 119
A Pox upon It 140
Body Heat 171
The Catenary Tales 202
123456789 Surfi n’ Safari 225
Epilogue: The Mimetics of Math 249
Appendix 1 : Doing the Math 263
Appendix 2: Calculus of the Living Dead 293
Bibliography 299
Index 309
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