Infinite Powers

Steven H. Strogatz

文化

数学

2019-4-2

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

内容简介

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.

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  • [已注销]的评论
    Strogatz力作,刚好配合3blue1brown新出的Differential Equations系列,和B Shayak的Linear Theory and Applications,一起食用最佳。
  • EC的评论
    要是我早读了这本书,当年的微积分会学得很有趣味吧!
  • 浮冰枕词的评论
    以为大部分会是数学历史结果是科普.... 不过如果我在学微积分之前读的话应该会很喜欢,有些故事还是挺有趣的。
  • WhisperHeart的评论
    特别适合学微积分的时候看
  • 密码有误的评论
    今年的新书~
  • Heather的冬天的评论
    好看,以微积分为主题的书能写得这么深入浅出真不容易。不知道有没有中译,原文非常流畅,打算把作者的其他书也都读一遍。
  • XinChine的评论
    Shear elegance!