Infinite Powers

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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.
This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death.
Taking us on a thrilling journey through three millennia, professor Steven Strogatz charts the development of this seminal achievement from the days of Archimedes to today's breakthroughs in chaos theory and artificial intelligence. Filled with idiosyncratic characters from Pythagoras to Fourier, Infinite Powers is a compelling human drama that reveals the legacy of calculus on nearly every aspect of modern civilisation, including science, politics, medicine, philosophy, and much besides.

Mathematics Algebra History & Philosophy

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601 printed pages

Copyright owner: Bookwire
Original publication: 2019
Publication year: 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books

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samairaveerabhadrahas quoted4 years ago
He coaxed a beautiful answer out of nature by asking a beautiful question. Like
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samairaveerabhadrahas quoted4 years ago
discovering mathematics. The results are there, waiting for us. They have been inherent in the figures all along. We are not inventing them
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samairaveerabhadrahas quoted4 years ago
feeling the finiteness of his life against the infinitude of mathematics
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