The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Author:
Jennifer Ouellette
Publisher:
Penguin
Reviewed in:
Summer 2010
Category:

Were you traumatized by calculus? Does the mere mention of integrals and derivatives make you queasy? Jennifer Ouellette feels your pain. She never took math in college, mostly because she — like most people — assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. The Calculus Diaries is an account of a year spent confronting her math phobia head on.