Calculus Diaries

Jennifer Ouellette (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2013
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7156-4513-0 (ISBN)

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How maths can help you lose weight, win in Vegas and survive the zombie apocalypse

Jennifer Ouellette never took maths in the sixth form, mostly because she like most of us assumed she wouldnt need it much in real life. But then the English graduate, now an award-winning science-writer, had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her youth. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of a year spent confronting her numbers-phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette explains how she discovered that maths could apply to everything from petrol mileages to dieting, rollercoaster rides to winning in Las Vegas.

Jennifer Ouellettes work has appeared in New Scientist, The Washington Post, Discover, Nature, Symmetry and Physics World. She maintains a science-and-culture group blog called Cocktail Party Physics and also blogs about physics and space science for Discovery News. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, cosmologist Sean Carroll.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2013
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
ISBN-10	0-7156-4513-7 / 0715645137
ISBN-13	978-0-7156-4513-0 / 9780715645130
Zustand	Neuware