A Tour of the Calculus Paperback - 1997
by David Berlinski
Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle, 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 mathematician who writes with extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio.
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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
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- Title A Tour of the Calculus
- Author David Berlinski
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1997-01-28
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780679747888 / 0679747885
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.18 x 0.77 in (20.57 x 13.16 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Calculus
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95004042
- Dewey Decimal Code 515
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- New York Times, 02/23/1997, Page 24
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