Description
Calculus can seem forbidding, yet it is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for making sense of change, motion, and the infinite. This engaging history traces the subject from its earliest origins through breakthroughs in astronomy, physics, engineering, medicine, and modern technology, showing how abstract ideas have transformed the world around us. With clarity, wit, and an instinct for illuminating everyday wonder, the book reveals the elegant simplicity beneath calculus’s apparent complexity—and why it remains essential to understanding the universe.
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Mariner Books
Published Apr 14, 2020
400 pages
ISBN: 9780358299288
paperback
Mariner Books
Published Jan 1, 2019
389 pages
ISBN: 9781328879981
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First Published
2019
Language
eng
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