- Calculus, Mathematics, History, Calculus, history
From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.
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Warm, resolved, earnest and plot-driven.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Steven H. Strogatz
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780358299288
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Steven Henry Strogatz is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, for his research in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory, and for his outreach work in the public communication of mathematics. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* Strogatz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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