Description: 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.
An odd and tantalizing book by a writer who takes immense pleasure in this great mathematical tool, and tries to create it in others.--New York Times Book Review
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Book Title: A Tour of the Calculus Format: Paperback
Genre: General/trade
Narrative Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Tour of the Calculus
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1997
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: History & Philosophy, Calculus, History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Subject Area: Mathematics, Science
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: David Berlinski
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
