Tour of the Calculus

Name: Tour of the Calculus
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ISBN: 9780679747888

ISBN-10: 0679747885

ISBN-13: 9780679747888

Edition: N/A

Authors: David Berlinski

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Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall. Just how calculus makes these things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world is the subject of this dazzling book by a writer of extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio. Even as he initiates us into the mysteries of real numbers, functions, and limits, Berlinski explores the furthest implications of his subject, revealing how the calculus reconciles the precision of numbers with the fluidity of…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.87" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


A Note to the Reader


The Frame of the Book



Masters of the Symbols



Symbols of the Masters



The Black Blossoms of Geometry



Cartesian Coordinates



The Unbearable Smoothness of Motion



Yo



Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Line



The Doctor of Discovery



Real World Rising



Forever Familiar, Forever Unknown



Some Famous Functions



Speed of Sorts



Speed, Strange Speed



Paris Days



Prague Interlude



Memory of Motion



The Dimpled Shoulder



Wrong Way Rolle



The Mean Value Theorem



The Song of Igor



Area



Those Legos Vanish



The Integral Wishes to Compute an Area



The Integral Wishes to Become a Function



Between the Living and the Dead



A Farewell to Continuity


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Index