Infinite Powers
by Steven Strogatz |
The Math Book
by Clifford A. Pickover | 
Poincare's Prize
by George G. Szpiro | 
Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers | 
Archimedes' Revenge
by Paul Hoffman |
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
by Ian Stewart |
The Math Gene
by Keith Devlin | 
The Calculus Diaries
by Jennifer Ouellette | 
The Mathematical Tourist
by Ivars Peterson | 
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
by Alex Bellos | 
Journey through Genius
by William Dunham |
The Joy of x
by Steven Strogatz |
How Not to Be Wrong
by Jordan Ellenberg |
An Imaginary Tale
by Paul J. Nahin | 
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy | 
The Ancestor's Tale
by Richard Dawkins | 
Genome
by Matt Ridley | 
Big Bang
by Simon Singh | 
Your Inner Fish
by Neil Shubin | 
Wonderful Life
by Stephen Jay Gould |
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 the changing universe.