出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
出版年: 2019-4-2
ISBN: 9781328879981
页数: 384
装帧: Hardcover
定价: USD 18.30
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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.
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.
Though many of ...
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.
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.
Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven Strogatz’s brilliantly creative, down‑to‑earth history shows that calculus is not about complexity; it’s about simplicity. It harnesses an unreal number—infinity—to tackle real‑world problems, breaking them down into easier ones and then reassembling the answers into solutions that feel miraculous.
Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves (a phenomenon predicted by calculus). Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes “backwards” sometimes; how to make electricity with magnets; how to ensure your rocket doesn’t miss the moon; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.
As Strogatz proves, calculus is truly the language of the universe. By unveiling the principles of that language, Infinite Powers makes us marvel at the world anew.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
STEVEN STROGATZ is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has blogged about math for the New York Times and The New Yorker and has been a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday. He is the author of Sync and The Joy of x. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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首先,我想说的是我为什么要分享这本书呢?因为这是一本写给每个人的微积分科普读物,是被名字耽误的宝藏趣味科普,它可能会让你爱上数学。我们知道从宇宙的终极谜题到日常的衣食住行,微积分的力量无处不在。我们现代社会的种种方便——GPS、微波炉、激光视力矫正手术、高铁等... (展开)在无穷远处,一切就变得简单了。
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刚上大学的时候,《数学分析》课程简直是我的噩梦,看不透书本上寥寥数语的证明过程,听不懂课堂上老师口中的玄之又玄,记住了单调无聊的公式证明,但参不透背后的博大精髓,在“记忆”与“弄懂”之间来回翻滚折磨。 虽然《数学分析》是公认最难的科目,但教授这门课程的老师却... (展开)为什么宇宙是可理解的,为什么宇宙的运动可以用微积分来表达
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“在数学和科学的某些分支领域,我们已经感受到了人类洞察力的黯然失色。有些定理尽管已被计算机证实,但没有人能理解相关证明过程。也就是说,定理是正确的,我们却不知道为什么。而这时候,机器也无法向人类做出解释。” 01 — 有趣的微积分简史,不仅讲了微积分发展史上的重... (展开)非常的浪漫,超级感慨!
数学类科普好书,强烈推荐!
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0 有用 密码有误 2019-12-10 12:10:42
今年的新书~
0 有用 无执 2024-03-14 22:14:33 湖北
适合微积分复习前看看,正如作者所说,微积分是上帝的语言。行文优美,好书
1 有用 老十八椒🌶 2022-03-20 16:39:19
太多equation还有数学名词..不适合有声书来听
0 有用 Yuchen 2022-09-07 10:14:42 中国香港
从对无限的直观认识,到发展出系统严谨的分析方法,通过微积分人类得以求解世界的规律:微积分不仅仅是工具,还是上帝的语言,小到量子,大到天体,到最后都奇迹般近乎完美地遵从数学的定理,或许这就是数学使人敬畏的魅力
4 有用 爱乐 2019-05-29 22:34:03
要是我早读了这本书,当年的微积分会学得很有趣味吧!