具體描述
From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus – how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.
Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven Strogatz’s brilliantly creative, down‑to‑earth history shows that calculus is not about complexity; it’s about simplicity. It harnesses an unreal number—infinity—to tackle real‑world problems, breaking them down into easier ones and then reassembling the answers into solutions that feel miraculous.
Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves (a phenomenon predicted by calculus). Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes “backwards” sometimes; how to make electricity with magnets; how to ensure your rocket doesn’t miss the moon; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.
As Strogatz proves, calculus is truly the language of the universe. By unveiling the principles of that language, Infinite Powers makes us marvel at the world anew.
用戶評價
##是本會讓人看high的書
##去年疫情期間讀的，在 Calculus Made Easy 之後，過來本是想尋跡找到曾經看到的一本似乎是 Markov 寫的書，還是沒找到。
要是我早讀瞭這本書，當年的微積分會學得很有趣味吧！
##太多equation還有數學名詞..不適閤有聲書來聽
##今年的新書～
##好看，以微積分為主題的書能寫得這麼深入淺齣真不容易。不知道有沒有中譯，原文非常流暢，打算把作者的其他書也都讀一遍。
##今年的新書～
##去年疫情期間讀的，在 Calculus Made Easy 之後，過來本是想尋跡找到曾經看到的一本似乎是 Markov 寫的書，還是沒找到。
##真希望剛學高數的時候看的是這個而不是吉米多維奇orz