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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Steven Strogatz

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Grant Sanderson recommends it affiliate
This is another wonderful book aiming to popularize calculus (2019 was a good year for that goal). What I enjoyed about this one is how broad a view Strogatz takes of the origins of calculus, ranging from the clever proofs Archimedes was developing up to Fourier's study of heat.

on 3blue1brown.com · 1 Jun 2020

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.