Change is the only constant : the wisdom of calculus in a madcap world
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
515.01/ORLIN,B

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 515.01/ORLIN,B Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780316509084, 0316509086 :, 0316509086, 9780316509084
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Moments. The fugitive substance of time, in which calculus grants a wish -- The ever-falling moon, in which calculus explains the cosmos -- The fleeting joys of buttered toast, in which calculus captures a heart -- The universal language, in which calculus turns a profit -- When the Mississippi River ran a million miles long, in which calculus plays a prank -- Sherlock Holmes and the bicycle of misdirection, in which calculus solves a mystery -- The unauthorized biography of a fad, in which calculus charts a trend -- What the wind leaves behind, in which calculus poses a riddle -- Do the dusty dance, in which calculus baffles a botanist -- The green-haired girl and the superdimensional whorl, in which calculus upstages a husband -- Princess on the edge of town, in which calculus claims a beachside property -- Paperclip wasteland, in which calculus ushers in an apocalypse -- The curve's last laugh, in which calculus rewrites tax policy -- That's professor dog to you, in which calculus vaults a canine to stardom -- Eternities. In Literary circles, in which calculus slices a cucumber -- War and peace and integrals, in which calculus revolutionizes history -- Riemann City skyline, in which calculus becomes an urban planner -- A great work of synthesis, in which calculus hosts a dinner party -- What happens under the integral sign stays under the integral sign, in which calculus expands its toolkit -- Discarding existence with a flick of his pen, in which calculus erases 68% of the known universe -- 1994, the year calculus was born, in which calculus tests your blood sugar -- If pains must come, in which calculus takes the measure of your soul -- Fighting with the gods, in which calculus fends off a Roman conquest -- From spheres unseen, in which calculus visits the fourth dimension -- A towering Baklava of abstractions, in which calculus is a mere footnote -- Gabriel, blow your trumpet, in which calculus births a heresy -- Scenes from an impossibility, in which calculus vexes and thrills

An exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and memorably bad drawings