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John Wiley & Sons Inc Calculus And Pizza by Clifford A. Pickover
CALCULUS + PEPPERONI / FUN = MATH SUCCESS Do you want to do well on your calculus exam? Are you looking for a quick refresher course? Or would you just like to get a taste of what calculus is all about? If so youve selected the right book. Calculus and Pizza is a creative surprisingly delicious overview of the essential rules and formulas of calculus with tons of problems for the learner with a healthy appetite. Setting up residence in a pizza parlor Clifford Pickover focuses on procedures for solving problems offering short easytodigest chapters that allow you to quickly get the essence of a technique or question. From exponentials and logarithms to derivatives and multiple integrals the book utilizes pepperoni meatballs and more to make complex topics fun to learnemphasizing basic practical principles to help you calculate the speed of tossed pizza dough or the rising cost of eggplant parmigiana. Plus youll see how simple mathand a mealcan solve especially curious and even mindshattering problems. Authoritatively and humorously written Calculus and Pizza provides a livelyand more tastefulapproach to calculus.
Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers art and thought. Los Angeles Times A perpetual idea machine Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative original thinkers in the world today. Journal of Recreational Mathematics