Infinite Powers

Infinite Powers, written by Steven Strogatz, captures the fundamental language of calculus and how it revolutionized with infinity from Archimedes’s Method to how rockets launch into space. Steven Strogatz shows how differential and integral calculus changed the world we live in today, and how it got us GPS and cell phones. Without calculus we wouldn’t have artificial intelligence or modern-day computers. This book reveals how calculus is the language of the universe and how it has evolved mathematics with our current understanding of the universe.

Harry Potter Series

J.K. Rowling presents wonderful stories of magic in the book series Harry Potter.

The Sorcerer’s Stone

A young man named Harry Potter learns that he is actually a wizard and goes to the wizard school Hogwarts. He must stop Voldemort, the dark wizard who killed Harry’s parents, from getting the sorcerer’s stone and returning back to full power. At Hogwarts, he learns about the wizarding world and learns magic. He encounters many obstacles as a wizard such as fighting a troll. He also learns to plays a game of Quidditch.

The Chamber of Secrets

In Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, the chamber of secrets gets opened again. Harry and his friends try to find out who the heir of Slytherin is before all the muggles-borns (people who weren’t born as wizards) die. Later, Harry and Ron find out that the monster of the chamber of secrets is a basilisk. Harry goes down in the chamber and finds out that Tom Riddle is the heir of Slytherin whose diary controlls Ginny Weasly to open the chamber. Harry kills the basilisk and saves all the school

The Prisoner of Azkaban

When Harry goes to his third year at hogwarts, he learns that Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban, the wizard prison. He was the first to do it, so dementors (the guards of Azkaban) suround Hogwarts. However, the dementors always attack Harry. Therefore, Professor Lupin teaches him how to do a patronus. Harry also sneaks into Hogsmead and hears that Serius Black betrayed his parents and is the reason they’re dead. But that isn’t the case - at the end he learns that Black was innocent and Peter Pettigrew was behind the scenes.