Friday, April 18, 2014

Review: Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us


Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us
Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us by Oscar E Fernandez

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



...Most of the observations herein are prose, with an average of around one equation per page. For more ardent math enthusiasts, there are more rigorous appendixes on calculus fundamentals. Fernandez invites the reader along on this work day and telegraphs an enthusiasm for seeing calculus, with hints of differential equations, presented to him. This excitement will telegraph to the math enthusiast becoming acquainted with calculus through the author’s style, which is both lively and confident.

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