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The Calculus of Happiness: How
a Mathematical Approach to Life Adds Up to Health, Wealth, and
Love
What’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 “all-weather” 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.
Oscar E. Fernandez
Associate Professor of
Mathematics; Faculty Director, Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching
Center
Research is in geometric mechanics and specifically in
Nonholonomic Mechanics. Presently researching Hamiltonian-like
properties of some special types of nonholonomic systems.
Professor Fernandez's current research is in Geometric
Mechanics, which can perhaps most easily be described as
Hamiltonian Mechanics on manifolds, and specifically in
Nonholonomic Mechanics. He is presently researching the
Hamiltonian-like properties of some special types of nonholonomic
systems, through ideas in symplectic geometry and the theory of
integrable systems.
Professor Fernandez also has a passion for teaching. He is
motivated by his desire to increase the number of students---and
particularly underrepresented students---studying math. Shortly
after coming to Wellesley he co-created the Wellesley Emerging
Scholars Initiative in which students work collaboratively on
challenging calculus problems twice weekly along with Prof. Stanley
Chang. The two math faculty continue to run the program every
semester, and last year the program received 3-year funding from
the Mathematical Association of America.
An applied mathematician by training, Professor
Fernandez also strives to be a spokesperson for
mathematics and its applications. He types up his lecture notes and
distributes them to his students, tends to have many office hours,
recently created a new course (Introduction to Fourier Analysis and
Partial Differential Equations), and recently
published Everyday
Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around
Us (Princeton University Press, 2014) which reveals
the calculus concepts hidden throughout a typical day.