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Title:
Change is the only constant : the wisdom of calculus in a madcap world
Author:
Orlin, Ben, author, illustrator.
Publication Date:
2019
ISBN:
9780316509084
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2019.
Physical Description:
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Moments: The fugitive of substance of time in which calculus grants a wish - The ever-falling moon, in which calculus explains the cosmos - The fleeting joys of buttered toast, in which calcus captures a heart - The universal language, in which calculus turns a profit - When the Mississippi River ran a million miles long, in which calculus plays a prank - Sherlock Holmse and the bicycle of misdirection, in which calculus solves a mystery - The unauthorized biography of a fad, in which calculus charts a trend - What the wind leaves behind, in which calculus poses a riddle - Do the dusty dance, in which calculus baffles a botanist - The green-haired girl and the superdimensional whorl, in which calculus upstages a husband - Princess on the edge of town, in which calculus claims a beachside property - Paperclip wasteland, in which calculus ushers in an apocalypse - The curve's last laugh, in which calculus rewrites tax policy - That's Professor Dog to you, in which calculus vaults a canine to stardom - Calculemus!, in which calculus solves all problems forever

Eternities: In literary circles, in which calculus slices a cucumber - War and peace and uintegrals, in which calculus revolutionizes history - Riemann City skyline, in which calculus becomes an urban planner - A great work of synthesis, in which calculus hosts a dinner party - What happens under the integral sign stays under the integral sign, in which calculus expands its toolkit - Discarding existence with a flick of his pen, in which calculus erases 68% of the known universe - 1994, the year calculus was born, in which calculus tests your blood sugar - If pains must come, in which calculus takes the measure of your soul - Fighting with the gods, in which calculus fends off a Roman conquest - From spheres unseen, in which calculus visits the fourth dimension - A towering baklava of abstractions, in which calculus is a mere footnote - Gabriel, blow your trumpet, in which calculus births a heresy - Scenes from an impossibility, in which calculus vexes and thrills -- Classroom notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
An exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and memorably bad drawings.
Added Title:
The wisdom of calculus in a madcap world.