Entering

Chapter 1: Get up and smell the function!
What do trigonometry have to do with your morning?
How did the glass function frustrate Thomas Edison? How did electromagnetic induction power the world?
Logs hidden in the air
Frequency of trigonometric functions
Galileo's parabola

Chapter 2: Let's have breakfast at Newton's house.
Calculus the CNBC Way
Even coffee has its limits
One multivitamin a day is all it takes to stop worrying about your health.
Derivatives describe change

Chapter 3: Everything Made of Derivatives
How can you survive a rainy day?
Does politics have derivatives, or is politics included in derivatives?
Let's learn about the curvature of the graph through the unemployment rate.
America's booming population
Let's feel the derivative
Calculus of Time Travel

Chapter 4: Everything Connected to Calculus
Email, text, Twitter, ah!
Calculus of the Cold
What does sustainability have to do with catching a cold?
What's the connection between retirement income and traffic congestion?
The Calculus of Sweetness

Chapter 5 Calculus: A Drink Will Make You Feel a Little Better
Differentiation of my heart
Calculus in Life and Nature
Let's look at the possible gains and losses through calculus.
The best way to get home
Let's efficiently catch speed violations through calculus.

Chapter 6: Let's add in the calculus way
A device called an integral
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Let's estimate the waiting time through integration.

Chapter 7: The Dream Team of Differentiation and Integration
Does integration work for tandoori chicken?
Find the best seats at the cinema
Let's make the subway run smoothly through calculus.
Let's look up and see the past
The ultimate fate of the universe
Age of the Universe

Concluding remarks
Appendix A Functions and Graphs
Appendix 1-7
References
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From a cup of morning coffee to a view of the night sky
You can find calculus everywhere in your daily life!

In the late 1600s, as the greatest mathematicians of the time began studying calculus, many people around the world began to ask this question.
"What on earth would I use this for?"

Those of you reading this are probably curious about the answer to this question.
Because everyone thinks the same thing when they first learn calculus.
The answer, “Engineers used calculus when developing X,” is true, but it hardly answers the previous question.
This book answers this question in a variety of ways, uncovering the mathematics that shape the world we live in while remaining hidden, particularly calculus.


Let me give you a heads up in advance: I'm going to try to find this answer through the author's daily life.
"A typical day? He's a mathematician! How can it be typical?" you might ask, but his day is no different from anyone else's.
Often times, we wake up in the morning and can't get out of bed, spend hours stuck in traffic on our way to work, worry about what to eat, where to eat, and worry about money.
We don't often pay much attention to these everyday occurrences, but this book seeks to uncover the mathematical DNA hidden beneath the surface of everyday life.

Hear the logarithmic function and see the trigonometric function!

There is a lot of mathematics hidden in our everyday lives.
The radio you listen to on your way to work is actually a logarithmic function of pressure waves.
Also, the light we see is actually a trigonometric function of electromagnetic waves.
Who would have imagined that our lives would be so deeply intertwined with mathematics? This book will help us understand mathematics, especially calculus, which has often been considered difficult, through the lens of everyday life.

Calculus, which was once considered difficult, can now be easily understood through storytelling of everyday life.
This book uses calculus to explain why human blood vessels divide at specific angles (Chapter 5) and why all objects thrown into the air follow a parabola (Chapter 1).
It also makes us rethink our understanding of time and space, proving that time travel is possible (Chapter 3) and that the universe is expanding (Chapter 7).
And you'll learn how to sleep better through calculus (Chapter 1), how to save fuel (Chapter 5), and even how to find the best seats at the movie theater (Chapter 7).

If you've ever wondered how calculus is used, after reading this book, it will be harder to find something that doesn't use it.
This book explains how calculus is applied through various formulas and helps build a mathematical understanding of calculus.
But don't worry if you're bad at math.
This book is fun even if you don't understand math.
If you're curious about more math, Appendix A provides a brief refresher on functions and graphs, and Appendices 1-7 explain the calculations covered in the book.