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Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus
Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.
About the Author
Jennifer Ouellette is the author ofThe Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse,due out August 31, 2010. She is also the author ofThe Physics of the Buffyverse(2007) andBlack Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics(2006), both published by Penguin. Her work has appeared inThe Washington Post, Discover, New Scientist, Salon, Symmetry, Nature, andPhysics Today, among other venues. She blogs at Discovery News, and maintains the group science blog Cocktail Party Physics."
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