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STEVEN STROGATZ is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has blogged about math for the New York Times and The New Yorker and has been a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday. He is the author of Sync and The Joy of x. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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.
##與其說是用微積分揭示宇宙的奧秘不如說是關於微積分的簡史。不過我仍然喜歡這本書,因為作者試圖用最簡單的文字把故事講得有趣。 誰說數學無用? 我還記得很多年前我在高中讀書的時候,當時文理分科,我學的是理科。我記得當時的化學課正好學到有機化學,這就和平時生活中的香皂、洗發水什麼的聯係在一起。物理就更不用說瞭,講的也多是生活中的例子。同學們就很感慨,說,也就數學沒啥大用瞭。因為數學教材...
評分##這是一本淺顯的科普書,深入的公式運算作者都沒講,相比運算本身他更想通過方程定律推導的曆史過程讓我們理解微積分的魅力和重要性,這一點很成功。數學是一門語言,讀懂宇宙的語言,它錶明的規律不是人類發明創造齣來的,隻是本來就存在的被我們發現瞭,能夠讀懂這些是曆代數...
評分 評分 評分 評分##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。
評分 評分22年以來到4月份讀過的最好的一本書。 從本科數學專業到研究生數理統計專業再到金融學博士專業,每當有人問我為什麼要從數學轉嚮金融學時,我總是會半開玩笑地迴答到,“因為數學學不好,所以轉學金融學瞭”。彆人以為是玩笑話,但我其實講的是真心話(當然還有另一個原因時金...
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