A Tour of the Calculus attempts to explore Calculus from a practical, evolutionary point of view. What can we do with it? What is useful. There are many conversational pieces as the author "talks" with some of the key contributors to modern math and learns what they have done and why. It tries to be conversational, but does resort to a bit of mathematical notation. It almost worked for me. While I did get many key insights into Calculus, I found it got just a bit too much into the details to keep me from being able to focus on the general narrative.
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