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:
- General
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.
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