Discusses such topics as differential equations, matrices, groups, sets, transformations, mathematical logic and other important modern mathematics, as well as in use in physics, astrophysics, and similar fields.
The author, a nearly forty emergency medical responder in a small Wisconsin town, chronicles humorous, hapless, and rewarding events from one year of his life, focusing on his repair of a 1951 International Harvester pickup truck and a hopeful new romance that followed several failed ones.
Presents a brief profile of the 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case and decision between William Marbury and newly appointed Secretary of State James Madison that would alter the balance of power among the three branches of government.