Quotes of: Calculus Keyword

I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym--I asked myself, "Where is ...

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the greatest gift one can gain by delving into calculus: It is a whole new way of looking at the world, accessible only through the realm of ma...

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of , , , , , and . It was 's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to...

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

Debi Thomas

Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run.

Ryan Lilly

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

Scott Hamilton

Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.

Just for Now

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.

Robert Coleman Richardson

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

Kit Williams

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

Blinders Keepers

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Elizabeth Moon

Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!

Beyond forever...in love

[Running] is a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can’t run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

Scott Jurek

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

Kina Grannis

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Elizabeth Moon

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

Henri Poincare

... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with...

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse