Calculus Diaries How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Name: Calculus Diaries How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
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ISBN: 9780143117377

ISBN-10: 0143117378

ISBN-13: 9780143117377

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jennifer Ouellette

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"Kiss My Math" meets "A Tour of the Calculus" Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. "The Calculus Diaries" is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.37" wide x 7.96" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: I Could Be Mathier



To Infinity and Beyond



Drive Me Crazy



Casino Royale



The Devil's Playground



Show Me the Money



A Pox upon It



Body Heat



The Catenary Tales



Surfin' Safari


Epilogue: The Mimetics of Math



Doing the Math



Calculus of the Living Dead


Bibliography


Index