Cool news, math dorks: my friend Jennifer Ouellette's new book The Calculus Diaries comes out today! I've known Jennifer for a couple of years now. She helms the Science and Entertainment Exchange (trying to get better science into movies), she spoke (wonderfully) at TAM 7, she was at SETIcon and Comic Con, and I also know her through her husband, cosmologist Sean Carroll -- he blogs for the Hive Overmind at Cosmic Variance.
Jennifer writes the Cocktail Party Physics blog and for the Discovery Channel blogs, too... and I am not ashamed to admit I have a wild crush on her avatar, Jen-Luc Piquant. So I was really excited to get my hands on an advance copy of her book, especially since I knew she could handle the topic well. It was everything I had hoped for. Yeah, look, I know: it's a book about calculus. But it just so ...
