In pursuit of the unknown : 17 equations that changed the world / Ian Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 2012.Description: x, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0465029736 : HRD
  • 9780465029730
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510.9 23
LOC classification:
  • QA21 .S835 2012
Contents:
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 -- Qua
Summary: A guide to the major building blocks of contemporary mathematics--from the Pythagorian Theorem to Einstein's theory of relativity--explores how these equations are at the root of human progress.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index.

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 -- Qua

A guide to the major building blocks of contemporary mathematics--from the Pythagorian Theorem to Einstein's theory of relativity--explores how these equations are at the root of human progress.

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