The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

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Steven Strogatz hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art, business, and even pop culture in ways we never imagined.

Did O.J. do it? How should you flip your mattress to get the maximum wear out of it? How does Google search the Internet? How many people should you date before settling down? Believe it or not, math plays a crucial role in answering all of these questions and more.

Math underpins everything in the cosmos, including us, yet too few of us understand this universal language well enough to revel in its wisdom, its beauty - and its joy. This deeply enlightening, vastly entertaining volume translates math in a way that is at once intelligible and thrilling.

Each trenchant chapter of "The Joy of x" offers an "aha!" moment, starting with why numbers are so helpful, and progressing through the wondrous truths implicit in π, the Pythagorean theorem, irrational numbers, fat tails, even the rigours and surprising charms of calculus.

Whether you aced integral calculus or aren't sure what an integer is, you'll find profound wisdom and persistent delight in "The Joy of x."