Research Catalog

Title

The calculus of friendship : what a teacher and a student learned about life while corresponding about math / Steven Strogatz.

Author

Strogatz, Steven

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Joffray, Don, 1929-

Description

xii, 166 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a shared love of calculus. For them, calculus is more than a branch of mathematics; it is a game they love playing together, a constant when all else is in flux. The teacher goes from the prime of his career to retirement, competes in whitewater kayaking at the international level, and loses a son. The student matures from high school math whiz to.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subjects

• Strogatz, Steven > Correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Differential equations
• Calculus
• Mathematicians > Correspondence
• Joffray, Don, 1929- > Correspondence

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Continuity (1974-75) -- Pursuit (1976) -- Relativity (1977) -- Irrationality (1978-79) -- Shifts (1980-89) -- Proof on a place mat (March 1989) -- The monk and the mountain (1989-90) -- Randomness (1990-91) -- Infinity and limits (1991) -- Chaos ( 1992-95) -- Celebration (1996-99) -- The path of quickest descent (2000-2003) -- Bifurcation (2004) -- Hero's formula (2005-present).

ISBN

• 9780691134932 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0691134936 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008049339

OCLC

• 276274618
• SCSB-11045520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library