The Calculus of Friendship : : What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math /

The Calculus of Friendship : : What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math / / Steven Strogatz.

The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a shared love of calculus. For them, calculus is m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Strogatz, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2009
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 9 halftones. 46 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Continuity (1974-75)
  • Pursuit (1976)
  • Relativity (1977)
  • Irrationality (1978-79)
  • Shifts (1980-89)
  • Proof on a Place Mat (March 1989)
  • The Monk and the Mountain (1989-90)
  • Randomness (1990-91)
  • Infinity and Limits (1991)
  • Chaos (1992-95)
  • Celebration (1996-99)
  • The Path of Quickest Descent (2000-2003)
  • Bifurcation (2004)
  • Hero's Formula (2005-Present)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • Photography Credits
  • Index of Math Problems

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