The Calculus Diaries - How Maths can help you Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Were you traumatized by high school calculus? Does the mere mention of integrals and derivatives make you queasy? Ouellette feels your pain. But she's here to tell you that the mysteries of calculus aren't nearly as scary when they're faced head on. Here she recounts her year confronting her maths phobia. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage and dieting to Disneyland rides and shooting craps in Vegas - definitively proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.