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A Tour of the Calculus
- De: David Berlinski
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall. Just how calculus makes these things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world is the subject of this dazzling book by a writer of extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio.
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- A Tour of the Calculus
- De: David Berlinski
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
Frustratingly Bad Writing
Revisado: 01-27-23
Every other sentence, the whole book through, is an imaginary culture reference - or, failing that, an unnecessary anthropomorphism.
These are not clever or humorous allusions to real persons or places or ideas, but vague “discussions in a smoky room, with roasted plums and the scratches of Clementi on impossibly nostalgic vinyl.” A few of these would be tolerable, but on every page, you must wade through them. They serve only to distract from every point, not elucidate it.
Go elsewhere for an interesting introduction to calculus. Come here if you enjoy filling your time with contrivances.
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