Though calculus is a notoriously difficult and abstract area of mathematics, its applications form the basis for much of modern technology, science and engineering. Prof. Steven Strogatz, applied ...
If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...