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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Strogatz, Steven)

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Friday, August 23, 2024 12:44:34 PM

  1. "It began with the discovery of the laws of electricity and magnetism by scientists like Michael Faraday and André-Marie Ampère."

Friday, August 23, 2024 12:51:44 PM

  1. "Those rules are deeply rooted in logic, so even though it might seem like we’re just shuffling symbols around, we’re actually constructing long chains of logical inference."

Friday, August 23, 2024 12:52:14 PM

  1. "If we’re lucky and skillful enough—if we transform the equations in just the right way—we can get them to reveal their hidden implications."

Friday, August 23, 2024 12:52:41 PM

  1. "we’re manipulating the equations, massaging them, trying to relax them enough so that they’ll spill their secrets."

Friday, August 23, 2024 1:06:23 PM

  1. "This is what Einstein marveled at when he wrote, “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”"

Friday, August 23, 2024 1:13:14 PM

  1. "Alas, most calculus courses bury the theme under an avalanche of formulas, procedures, and computational tricks."

Friday, August 23, 2024 1:14:21 PM

  1. "In a nutshell, calculus wants to make hard problems simpler."

Friday, September 6, 2024 7:23:55 PM

  1. "A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years."

Monday, September 9, 2024 9:07:18 PM

  1. "“Art,” said Picasso, “is a lie that makes us realize truth.”"

Monday, September 9, 2024 9:12:53 PM

  1. "In a cruel irony, both Newton and Leibniz, the pioneers of calculus, died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi—a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz."

Saturday, August 31, 2024 1:18:00 AM

  1. "Mountains on the moon meant it was not a glistening, perfect orb, contrary to Aristotelian teaching."

Thursday, September 19, 2024 12:56:42 AM

  1. "an unseen neighbor that was perturbing Uranus"

Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:44:36 PM

  1. "He had no particular empirical evidence for the theory, just an artistic sense that its beauty was a sign of its correctness."

Thursday, September 26, 2024 12:52:19 PM

  1. "In Einstein’s theory, matter tells space-time how to curve, while curvature tells matter how to move."

Thursday, September 5, 2024 10:59:53 PM

  1. "light travels in the most efficient way—not the most direct way, but the fastest."

Thursday, September 5, 2024 11:01:08 PM

  1. "This optimization principle—that nature behaves in the most economical way, in a certain precise sense—was found to correctly predict the laws of mechanics."

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 12:38:22 AM

  1. "This is the allure of infinity. Everything becomes better there."

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 1:02:35 AM

  1. "Who would have thought that taking a step required completing infinitely many subtasks?"

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 1:04:48 AM

  1. "“Day and night I was consumed by the computing, to see whether this idea would agree with the Copernican orbits, or if my joy would be carried away by the wind."