Book description
Maths is everywhere, often where we least expect it. Award-winning
professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour
of numbers that - unbeknownst to the most of us - form a fascinating
and integral part of our everyday lives. In The Joy of X, Strogatz
explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus,
fat tails to infinity - and shows how they connect to everything from
popular culture and philosophy to current affairs and business
practice. He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is
perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.
Steven Strogatz is the professor of applied mathematics at
Cornell University. A renowned teacher, and one of the world's most
highly-cited mathematicians, he received MIT's E. M. Baker Award. He
is the author of the bestselling Sync and The Calculus of Friendship.
He lives in New York with his wife Carole and their two daughters.
