Calculus and pizza : a cookbook for the hungry mind

Clifford A. Pickover

CALCULUS + PEPPERONI / FUN = MATH SUCCESS Do you want to do well on your calculus exam? Are you looking for a quick refresher course? Or would you just like to get a taste of what calculus is all about? If so, you've selected the right book. Calculus and Pizza is a creative, surprisingly delicious overview of the essential rules and formulas of calculus, with tons of problems for the learner with a healthy appetite. Setting up residence in a pizza parlor, Clifford Pickover focuses on procedures for solving problems, offering short, easy-to-digest chapters that allow you to quickly get the essence of a technique or question. From exponentials and logarithms to derivatives and multiple integrals, the book utilizes pepperoni, meatballs, and more to make complex topics fun to learn-emphasizing basic, practical principles to help you calculate the speed of tossed pizza dough or the rising cost of eggplant parmigiana. Plus, you'll see how simple math-and a meal-can solve especially curious and even mind-shattering problems. Authoritatively and humorously written, Calculus and Pizza provides a lively-and more tasteful-approach to calculus. "Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers, art, and thought." -Los Angeles Times "A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today." -Journal of Recreational Mathematics

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  • Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Pizza Velocity and the Derivative. Derivative Definitions and Rules. Derivatives and and Slopes. Rules for Products and Quotients. Chain Rule and Implicit Differentiation. Maxima and Minima. Min-Max Pizza Applications. Exponentials and Logarithms. Limits and Continuity. Related Rates. Integration. Logarithmic Differentiation, Integration by Parts, Trigonometric Substitution, and Partial Fractions. Exponential Growth and Decay. Calculus and Computers. Multiple Integrals. Calculus in a Nutshell. Luigi's Mind-Boggling Workout Routine. Conclusion. Answers. Further Reading. Index.

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書名 Calculus and pizza : a cookbook for the hungry mind
著作者等 Pickover, Clifford A
出版元 Wiley
刊行年月 c2003
ページ数 xv, 208 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0471269875
NCID BA6287633X
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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