![]() ![]() ![]() The essence of the answer lies in a quip that the physicist Richard Feynman made to the novelist Herman Wouk when they were discussing the Manhattan Project. How could it be that a theory originally about shapes ultimately reshaped civilization? It’s a curiosity of history that the world was changed forever by an arcane branch of mathematics. We might not even have the Declaration of Independence. We wouldn’t have split the atom, unraveled the human genome, or put astronauts on the moon. Or ultrasound for expectant mothers, or GPS for lost travelers. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, or microwave ovens. The publishers will be pleased to make good any omissions or rectify any mistakes brought to their attention at the earliest opportunity.Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.Ĭonclusion Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Notes Bibliography Index illustration 307 constitute an extension of this copyright page.Įvery effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright holders. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. The moral right of Steven Strogatz to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.Īll rights reserved. illustrationįirst published in the United States in 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.įirst published in hardback and trade paperback in Great Britain in 2019 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd. He is the author of Sync and Th e Joy of x. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has blogged about maths for the New York Times and Th e New Yorker. Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. ![]()
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