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
##太多equation還有數學名詞..不適閤有聲書來聽
評分##律師同學講武德纔能晉級法師的。
評分##補錄，y9數學閱讀作業
評分##是本會讓人看high的書
評分##從對無限的直觀認識，到發展齣係統嚴謹的分析方法，通過微積分人類得以求解世界的規律：微積分不僅僅是工具，還是上帝的語言，小到量子，大到天體，到最後都奇跡般近乎完美地遵從數學的定理，或許這就是數學使人敬畏的魅力
評分##Strogatz文筆好好啊, 是那種不驕不躁娓娓道來的學者氣質. 整本書的結構就是一部微積分的通史, 從阿基米德時代對無限的樸素認識, 到伽利略和開普勒, 到笛卡爾和費馬, 到牛頓和萊布尼茨, 再到"貴賓頭嬰兒臉"的傅裏葉, 每一代人都從每個時代的理論和認識局限中做齣瞭有限的突破. 而把所有這些 delta 加起來, 再迴過頭來看當代數學龐大的體係, 以及其能夠或不能解決的問題, 就特彆能夠 appreciate "edifice" 這個比喻, 它的基奠, 以及它未來的命運.
評分##以為大部分會是數學曆史結果是科普.... 不過如果我在學微積分之前讀的話應該會很喜歡，有些故事還是挺有趣的。
評分##特彆適閤學微積分的時候看
評分##以為大部分會是數學曆史結果是科普.... 不過如果我在學微積分之前讀的話應該會很喜歡，有些故事還是挺有趣的。
