The Calculus Diaries - Brossura

Jennifer Ouellette

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ISBN 10: 0715645137 ISBN 13: 9780715645130

Casa editrice: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2013

Riassunto

Jennifer Ouellette never took maths in the sixth form, mostly because she like most of us assumed she wouldnt need it much in real life. But then the English graduate, now an award-winning science-writer, had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her youth. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of a year spent confronting her numbers-phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette explains how she discovered that maths could apply to everything from petrol mileages to dieting, rollercoaster rides to winning in Las Vegas.

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Recensione:

If, like me, you love the neatness of calculus but never appreciated its applications or the colourful characters who have used it through history, then these diaries are well worth a read --New Scientist

I havent had this much fun learning maths since I watched the Count on Sesame Street when I was three. And the Count never talked about log flumes or zombies --The New York Times

L'autore:

Jennifer Ouellettes work has appeared in New Scientist, The Washington Post, Discover, Nature, Symmetry and Physics World. She maintains a science-and-culture group blog called Cocktail Party Physics and also blogs about physics and space science for Discovery News. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, cosmologist Sean Carroll.

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• Editore: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0715645137
• ISBN 13: 9780715645130
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336