Calculus 101

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Geometry Era
2. Chapter Two - Zeno’s Mind Bombs
3. Chapter Three - Archimedes Nearly Gets There
4. Chapter Four - The Algebra Explosion
5. Chapter Five - Newton and the Need for Speed
6. Chapter Six - Leibniz and the Beautiful Symbols
7. Chapter Seven - The Calculus War
8. Chapter Eight - The Real Invention
9. Chapter Nine - The Derivative
10. Chapter Ten - The Integral
11. Chapter Eleven - The Fundamental Theorem
12. Chapter Twelve - Curves, Surfaces, and Space
13. Chapter Thirteen - Physics Runs on Derivatives
14. Chapter Fourteen - Economics and Risk
15. Chapter Fifteen - Medicine, Maps, and Machines
16. Chapter Sixteen - Infinity
17. Chapter Seventeen - The Cheat Code Keeps Winning

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Geometry Era MATH USED TO be chill. You had lines. You had shapes. You had numbers you could count on your fingers and mark in the sand. A triangle was a triangle. A square was a square. Everything was stable, symmetrical, and most importantly, solvable. This was the golden age of geometry. Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and India were all obsessed with measuring stuff. Fields, buildings, angles, altars, stars. You could use triangles to figure out shadows, build pyramids, and map the night sky. Geometry was tight. It felt divine. Sacred. Clean. And then curves showed up. That’s when everything fell apart. Because curves are messy. You can’t measure them with sticks and...