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17 equations that changed the world Seventeen equations that changed the world |
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| Imprint: |
New York : Basic Books, 2012. |
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| ISBN: |
9780465029730 : 0465029736 |
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| Call number: |
511.326 STE |
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| Physical description: |
x, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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| Subject: |
Mathematics -- History.
Equations -- History.
Physics -- History.
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| Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index. |
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| Contents note: |
Why equations? -- The squaw on the hippopotamus : Pythagoras's theorem -- Shortening the proceedings : logarithms -- Ghosts of departed quantities : calculus -- The system of the world : Newton's law of gravity -- Portent of the ideal world : the scare root of minus one -- Much ado about knotting : Euler's formula for polyhedra -- Patterns of chance : normal distribution -- Good vibrations : wave equation -- Ripples and blips : Fourier transform -- The ascent of humanity : Navier-Stokes equation -- Waves in the ether : Maxwell's equations -- Law and disorder : second law of thermodynamics -- One thing is absolute : relativity -- Quantum weirdness : Schrödinger equation -- Codes, communications, and computers : information theory -- The imbalance of nature : chaos theory -- The Midas formula : Black-Scholes equation -- Where next? |
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