The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

This lecture is based on Jennifer Oulette’s book The Calculus Diaries: a fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia head on. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, from the rides at Disneyland to shooting craps in Vegas — proving that even the mathematically challenged can learn the fundamentals of the universal language.