A rare look at the history and logic of calculus, how it was invented and developed, and what it reveals about the universe, the planet, its creators -- and, well, all of us Calculus is one the most ...

Calculus underpins many of the greatest ideas about how the universe works: Newton’s Laws, Maxwell’s Equations, quantum theory. It’s been used to develop ubiquitous technologies, like GPS. It was even ...

Calculus has provided humanity a window into the inner workings of the world around us since the fateful day Isaac Newton got conked by a falling apple. But we've only ever really applied these ...

Though calculus is a notoriously difficult and abstract area of mathematics, its applications form the basis for much of modern technology, science and engineering. Prof. Steven Strogatz, applied ...

Margaret Wertheim is a science writer and author of books on the cultural history of physics. She is also an artist in the 2019 Venice Biennale, running May 11 to Nov. 24. Toward the end of Steven ...

I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World Crawford, a bassist for the Avett Brothers and “history enthusiast,” debuts with a fantastic, boosterish biography of famous ...