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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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要是我早讀瞭這本書，當年的微積分會學得很有趣味吧！
評分##本書英文標題的字麵意思其實是無窮的力量，中文標題用瞭意譯 叫微積分的力量，讓目標讀者直觀瞭解這本書在講啥。無窮是緣起，微積分是結果。這本書是一本極好的激發數學興趣和愛好的啓濛讀物，也是很棒的一本講述曆代著名數學傢生世的故事書。我沒想到笛卡爾嬌慣一生，最終因為要給女王上早課，而死於肺炎。也沒想到 微分的秘密藏在高中學過的不斷減小的數列裏（這種豁然開朗式的理解帶來的快樂是物質上的快樂無法比擬的）。我工作跟醫學和醫學影像都密切相關，這本書裏講瞭好些微積分在醫學和成像中的應用和貢獻，讓我倍感親切同時又相見恨晚。比如CT的成像，如何從多條衰減的射綫中重建處一個層麵裏的2D圖像。本書也讓我對維度詛咒有更加具體的認知。本書把相對論中涉及的現象，比如物質如何時空相互作用等講得趣味十足。
評分##是本會讓人看high的書
評分##太多equation還有數學名詞..不適閤有聲書來聽
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##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##特彆適閤學微積分的時候看
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##特彆適閤學微積分的時候看
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