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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on May 23, 2019.

I'm Steve Murski. On this episode episode, but calculus just says we're going to

imagine we can cut space and time and anything else as finely as we want all the way to infinitesimal

size. And although we don't believe it's true in the sense of physics, it does give fantastically

good approximations to things that we see about curved shapes and about motion in the world and about all kinds of change.

That's Stephen Strogatz. He's a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University.

His last book in 2012 was The Joy of X, and his new book is Infinite Powers, How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe. Now, if the mention of the word calculus sent chills of horror up your spine, please don't leave. This discussion is really for you as much as for anyone who loved taking their calculus course.

I spoke to Strugats in a Manhattan apartment when he visited from upstate a few weeks ago.

So as always, also enjoy the occasional sound of first responders' vehicles going about their

business in our ultra-exciting metropolis.

People listening to us are playing in MP3.

And in the book, you talk about MP3s exist because of calculus.

Yeah.

So that's one, just one of the, there's an infinitude, if you will, of practical examples of what calculus has gotten us.

So, you know, just real quick, how did calculus lead to an MP3?

Well, the thing is that we've got all this data, you know, that if you tried to play

every note and every little fraction of the sound that you've recorded when you record digital

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