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In pursuit of the unknown : 17 equations that changed the world / Ian Stewart. |
| Authors: | Stewart, Ian, 1945- |
| Call number: | 511.326 STE |
| Publisher: | New York : Basic Books, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Mathematics -- History.
Equations -- History. Physics -- History. |
| Title: | In pursuit of the unknown : 17 equations that changed the world / Ian Stewart. |
| Additional title: | 17 equations that changed the world Seventeen equations that changed the world |
| Physical description: | x, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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? |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465029730 : 0465029736 |
| LCCN: | 2011944850 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1355552 |
| Bib No.: | 1355552 |
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