Calculus of Happiness (eBook)

How a Mathematical Approach to Life Adds Up to Health, Wealth, and Love

Oscar E. Fernandez (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2017
176 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8481-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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. Using only high-school-level math (precalculus with a dash of calculus), Fernandez guides us through several of the surprising results, including an easy rule of thumb for choosing foods that lower our risk for developing diabetes (and that help us lose weight too), simple "e;all-weather"e; investment portfolios with great returns, and math-backed strategies for achieving financial independence and searching for our soul mate. Moreover, the important formulas are linked to a dozen free online interactive calculators on the book's website, allowing one to personalize the equations.Fernandez uses everyday experiences-such as visiting a coffee shop-to provide context for his mathematical insights, making the math discussed more accessible, real-world, and relevant to our daily lives. Every chapter ends with a summary of essential lessons and takeaways, and for advanced math fans, Fernandez includes the mathematical derivations in the appendices.A nutrition, personal finance, and relationship how-to guide all in one, The Calculus of Happiness invites you to discover how empowering mathematics can be.

Autor

Oscar E. Fernandez is assistant professor of mathematics at Wellesley College and the author of Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us. He also writes about mathematics for the Huffington Post and on his website, surroundedbymath.com.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 13 line illus. 14 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
• Schlagworte: Adapt • After-Tax Return • And Interest • behalf • Budget • Burrito • Calculation • caloric deficit • Carbohydrate • Cholesterol • Citizens for Tax Justice • coefficient • Compound annual growth rate • credit card • Credit union • Currency • deposit insurance • differential equation • Discounts and allowances • Discretionary Expense • Disposable and discretionary income • dot-com bubble • Drake Equation • Dynamical system • economy • Energy Density • estimation • Expense • exponential function • exponential growth • financial independence • Finding • Fixed-rate mortgage • Full employment • Funding • geometric mean • gross income • Guarantee • healthy diet • heart rate • Heteronormativity • income • Inflation • Inflation Targeting • Interest • Interest Rate • Investment • it works • Likelihood Function • linear equation • Linear Function • logarithm • low-carbohydrate diet • Make a Difference • mathematician • Mathematics • meal • Metabolism • Natural number • New Math • nutrient • Nutrition • optimization problem • Ordinary Annuity • Payment • percentage • Percentage point • Piecewise linear function • polynomial • Precalculus • Probability • purchasing power • Quadratic formula • Quantity • Rate of return • rational function • Recession • Retirement • Return on Investment • saturated fat • saving • savings account • Snack • Standard deduction • standard deviation • Take-Home Pay • Tax • Taxable income • Tax bracket • tax credit • Tax deduction • Tax exemption • Total revenue • Triglyceride • Utility • Warren Buffett • well-being • Whole Grain • year • Your Money
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8481-0 / 1400884810
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8481-0 / 9781400884810