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 place 5,000 music in your pocket.

Though most of us were scared from this essential, engrossing subject in senior high school and college, Steven Strogatz’s brilliantly creative, down to earth history demonstrates calculus is not about complexity; it’s about simpleness. It harnesses an unreal number-infinity-to deal with real world complications, breaking them about Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets from the Universe down into easier ones and reassembling the answers into solutions that experience miraculous.

Infinite Forces recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, you start with its initial glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. Strogatz reveals how this type of math rose towards the challenges of each age: how exactly to determine the area of a circle with only fine sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars will go ‘backwards’ sometimes; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.

While Strogatz proves, calculus is actually the language from the universe. By unveiling the principles of that vocabulary, Infinite Capabilities makes us marvel in the world anew.