A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski

A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski

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

David Berlinski is a Ph.D. holder. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the bestselling author of A Tour of the Calculus, The Advent of the Algorithm, and Newton's Gift, among other works. Berlinski is a senior fellow at the Discovery Center in Seattle and a former fellow at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, among other publications. He is based in Paris.

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ISBN 13	9780679747888
ISBN 10	0679747885
Title	A Tour of the Calculus
Author	David Berlinski
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-01-28
Number of pages	352
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