The Calculus Diaries

What's calculus good for? How about losing weight, winning in Vegas, and surviving a zombie apocalypse. With wit, insight, and stories, Jennifer Ouellete, a reformed English major, shows us how.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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