Overview
How math holds the keys to improving one's health, wealth, and love lifeWhat's the best diet for overall health and weight management? How can we change our finances to retire earlier? How can we maximize our chances of finding our soul mate? In The Calculus of Happiness, Oscar Fernandez shows us that math yields powerful insights into health, wealth, and love. Relying on only high school-level math (precalculus with a dash of calculus), Fernandez uses everyday experiences to provide context for his mathematical insights and guides us through surprising results. Important formulas are linked to a dozen free online interactive calculators on the book's website, allowing one to personalize equations. Every chapter ends with a summary of essential lessons and takeaways, and for advanced math fans, Fernandez includes the mathematical derivations in the appendices.
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Author: Oscar E. Fernandez
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691192314
ISBN 10: 0691192316
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 09 July 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Fernandez generates such enthusiasm [for studying math] by considering topics that people do want to learn more about--food, money, other people--and skillfully weaving solid mathematical concepts within these topics. --Sandra L. Arlinghaus, Mathematical Reviews The Calculus of Happiness . . . demonstrate[s] how mathematics can yield powerful insights into everyday life. --Helen Thomson, New Scientist Brilliant. . . . Once you realise it all boils down to maths, you will wake up happier, wealthier and healthier tomorrow morning, and we have Oscar E. Fernandez to thank for that. --Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology Readers are sure to get a sense of how content from algebra and precalculus can help inform us about important decisions that are almost universally relevant. --Jason M. Graham, MAA Reviews Surveys a wide variety of ways that mathematics can be used to improve decision making and general well-being. --Chris Wilson, TIME.com
Readers are sure to get a sense of how content from algebra and precalculus can help inform us about important decisions that are almost universally relevant. --Jason M. Graham, MAA Reviews Fernandez generates such enthusiasm [for studying math] by considering topics that people do want to learn more about--food, money, other people--and skillfully weaving solid mathematical concepts within these topics. --Sandra L. Arlinghaus, Mathematical Reviews The Calculus of Happiness . . . demonstrate[s] how mathematics can yield powerful insights into everyday life. --Helen Thomson, New Scientist Brilliant. . . . Once you realise it all boils down to maths, you will wake up happier, wealthier and healthier tomorrow morning, and we have Oscar E. Fernandez to thank for that. --Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology Surveys a wide variety of ways that mathematics can be used to improve decision making and general well-being. --Chris Wilson, TIME.com
Fernandez generates such enthusiasm [for studying math] by considering topics that people do want to learn more about-food, money, other people-and skillfully weaving solid mathematical concepts within these topics. -Sandra L. Arlinghaus, Mathematical Reviews The Calculus of Happiness . . . demonstrate[s] how mathematics can yield powerful insights into everyday life. -Helen Thomson, New Scientist Brilliant. . . . Once you realise it all boils down to maths, you will wake up happier, wealthier and healthier tomorrow morning, and we have Oscar E. Fernandez to thank for that. -Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology Readers are sure to get a sense of how content from algebra and precalculus can help inform us about important decisions that are almost universally relevant. -Jason M. Graham, MAA Reviews Surveys a wide variety of ways that mathematics can be used to improve decision making and general well-being. -Chris Wilson, TIME.com
The Calculus of Happiness . . . demonstrate[s] how mathematics can yield powerful insights into everyday life. --Helen Thomson, New Scientist Brilliant. . . . Once you realise it all boils down to maths, you will wake up happier, wealthier and healthier tomorrow morning, and we have Oscar E. Fernandez to thank for that. --Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology Surveys a wide variety of ways that mathematics can be used to improve decision making and general well-being. --Chris Wilson, TIME.com Fernandez generates such enthusiasm [for studying math] by considering topics that people do want to learn more about--food, money, other people--and skillfully weaving solid mathematical concepts within these topics. --Sandra L. Arlinghaus, Mathematical Reviews Readers are sure to get a sense of how content from algebra and precalculus can help inform us about important decisions that are almost universally relevant. --Jason M. Graham, MAA Reviews
Author Information
Oscar E. Fernandez is associate professor of mathematics at Wellesley College and the author of Everyday Calculus and Calculus Simplified (both Princeton).
