Who recommended Infinite Powers?

8 people have recommended Infinite Powers in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Naval Ravikant, Michael Mauboussin, Kirk Borne and Brian Greene. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Infinite Powers worth reading?

8 people we track recommend it. It is best for: high-school math teacher preparing a nontechnical class introduction to derivatives and integrals — useful for anecdotes and intuitive metaphors to warm students up before formal rules; software engineer who frequently encounters calculus-based terms in algorithms or ML papers and wants a conceptual grasp rather than computation practice — helps translate jargon into mental pictures; project manager at a biotech startup who needs to understand why differential equations and rates show up in models — good for situational understanding that supports reading technical reports. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the prose turns into sustained technical discussion of limits or infinite series with symbols and minimal worked problems — readers who want step-by-step calculations will lose patience; annoying if you prefer a compact textbook: the conversational asides and historical detours sometimes feel repetitive rather than concise; not for those seeking hands-on exercises or a course-replacement; the book explains and illustrates rather than providing practice problems or a formal syllabus.

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Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz: Recommended by 8 People

Name: Infinite Powers
Author: Steven Strogatz

From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus?how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn?t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn?t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in ...