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How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of todays most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel. Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead. Along the way, readers learn how to avoid being eaten by taking advantage of the fact that zombies always point their tangent vector toward their target, and how to use exponential growth to determine the rate at which the virus is spreading.



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Colin Adams

A Game Artist and Illustrator, Colin Adams works with pencils, brushes, pens, and digital styluses. Colin lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. His clients range the world of illustration, and include books, magazines, social and mobile games, storyboards, web sites, roleplaying games, and comic books. He has drawn his entire life. He drew a lot in art school, and spent most of his regular school years drawing on his math homework anyway. He has some influences, a few pets, likes avocados, dislikes pennies, and he really couldn't pick a favorite color, even when pressed.



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