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This book is a must for them who find calculus difficult and not interesting. I am teaching Analysis/Calculus for a while now. I will suggest this book to my students. If you belong to that group then you should give it a read too. This book is very well written with motivations coming from Shrek like animations, not joking, it's true. It's a must buy. As for Amazon's end their delivery is wondeful. Thanks Amazon !

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Read this book - a good book. I wonder why the author missed some topics like Theory of Limits - and related Mathematician Guillame (William) L'Hospital whose L'Hospital Rule is about indeterminate to determinate. Since this book tends to be more like a History of Mathematics - then I would expect inclusion of lot more related Math topics and lot more Mathematicians. This book could have been edited to be concise; there are lots of repetitions of statements that instead could have been spent on to elucidate those statements.

It is a delicious narrative about the origin of calculus and its importance in our daily life. It is a great book for those not familiar with mathematics.

Just great, fun like a novel, insightful like a math book.

This book is much more than just a history of a branch of mathematics. It's a framework for thinking about calculus. I was mind blown at how Strogatz explains calculus; like I had been blind all those years and now I saw. His 'breaking down and reassembling' analogy may not be the best explanation to the more mathematically inclined, but to me it made perfect sense, at last. This book provided me with a mind model to think about calculus. A gem. "To shed light on any continuous shape, object, motion, process, or phenomenon - no matter how wild and complicated it may appear - reimagine it as an infinite series of simpler parts, analyze those, and then add the results back together to make sense of the original whole."

El autor de este libro te explica cálculo diferencial e integral de una manera mucho más clara que mi profesor de primero de carrera en ingeniería. Te deja claro su historia, de donde vienen los conceptos, su utilidad, todo sin usar muchas fórmulas. Este libro no es para aprobar un examen sino para entender de verdad de que va ésta útil herramienta de las matemáticas. Lo recomiendo para cualquiera que quiera comprender de verdad sus bases y no solo memorizar una serie de fórmulas y gráficas, como pasó en mi curso.

This is an interesting history of calculus. The writing is entertaining and the historical facts are enlightening. I would point to some considerations on the discussion of Xeno and whether space and time being distinct would mean that movement wouldn't be possible. The author explains that in computer science and in video production, we see pixels moving and thus Xeno is wrong. But, what the author is saying doesn't conflict with Xeno's prediction and in fact supports it. You don't see pixels move. You see new pixels be drawn and give the illusion of them moving but they aren't the same pictures and in fact, each image is still, motionless and while infinity is cool, it doesn't give us any support here. One is still not two even if there are infinite many points between them and so no matter how many still images you draw (changing what we call the frame rate), you won't change the fact that with time and space being distinct, as is the case in video production and pixelated animation, that there is no motion but only a trick of your eyes to make it seem like there is. That said, this book is an interesting read and gives many insights about the math world that we all should learn. Later, there is a discussion of Bolt and getting his speed at instances. That further demonstrates Xeno's point. The reason you can ascertain Bolt's speed at an instance is that it's Bolt that is moving in space time. If space and time were distinct, you could no longer do that because Bolt wouldn't be Bolt anymore. There would have to be a bunch of individual Bolts and each one of them would occupy a space on a time line but none of them would be the previous Bolt whereas Bolt is the previous Bolt since he lives in spacetime and not in a space and a time. I get the sense, however, that the author is either joshing or there's something more that must be missing from the equation as I'm quite sure everyone knows that pixels don't move (they are static is another way to say it) and only have the illusion of movement. What is very fascinating, though, is that Xeno had figured out something that wasn't very intuitive before Einstein. In any case, this is the sort of thought the book provokes and the sort of history it presents as it takes you from the early days of algebra to the sort of calculus that Newton developed and beyond.