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How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Penguin
September 2010
On Sale: August 31, 2010
336 pages ISBN: 0143117378 EAN: 9780143117377 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly
because she-like most people-assumed that she wouldn't need
it in real life. But then the
English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a
change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and
formulas that had haunted her for years. The Calculus
Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent
confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve,
Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to
everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at
Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas-proving that even the
mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the
universal language.
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