| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317). |
| Summary |
An exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and memorably bad drawings. |
| Contents |
Moments. The fugitive substance of time, in which calculus grants a wish -- The ever-falling moon, in which calculus explains the cosmos -- The fleeting joys of buttered toast, in which calculus captures a heart -- The universal language, in which calculus turns a profit -- When the Mississippi River ran a million miles long, in which calculus plays a prank -- Sherlock Holmes and the bicycle of misdirection, in which calculus solves a mystery -- The unauthorized biography of a fad, in which calculus charts a trend -- What the wind leaves behind, in which calculus poses a riddle -- Do the dusty dance, in which calculus baffles a botanist -- The green-haired girl and the superdimensional whorl, in which calculus upstages a husband -- Princess on the edge of town, in which calculus claims a beachside property -- Paperclip wasteland, in which calculus ushers in an apocalypse -- The curve's last laugh, in which calculus rewrites tax policy -- That's professor dog to you, in which calculus vaults a canine to stardom -- Eternities. In Literary circles, in which calculus slices a cucumber -- War and peace and integrals, in which calculus revolutionizes history -- Riemann City skyline, in which calculus becomes an urban planner -- A great work of synthesis, in which calculus hosts a dinner party -- What happens under the integral sign stays under the integral sign, in which calculus expands its toolkit -- Discarding existence with a flick of his pen, in which calculus erases 68% of the known universe -- 1994, the year calculus was born, in which calculus tests your blood sugar -- If pains must come, in which calculus takes the measure of your soul -- Fighting with the gods, in which calculus fends off a Roman conquest -- From spheres unseen, in which calculus visits the fourth dimension -- A towering Baklava of abstractions, in which calculus is a mere footnote -- Gabriel, blow your trumpet, in which calculus births a heresy -- Scenes from an impossibility, in which calculus vexes and thrills. |
| Subject |
Calculus -- Philosophy -- Popular works.
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Calculus -- Popular works.
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Calculus. (OCoLC)fst00844119
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Analysis. (DE-588)4001865-9
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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Popular works.
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| ISBN |
9780316509084 |
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0316509086 |
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