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Also by Jennifer Ouellette:

The Calculus Diaries, September 2010
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The Physics of the Buffyverse, January 2007
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Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, December 2005
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THE CALCULUS DIARIES
By: Jennifer Ouellette

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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