Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe

by Steven H. Strogatz

If anything deserves to be called the secret of the universe, calculus is it.

But it was only in the limit of infinitely many slices that it became truly rectangular. That’s the big idea behind calculus. Everything becomes simpler at infinity.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”