TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Ian
TI  - In pursuit of the unknown: 17 equations that changed the world 
SN  - 0465029736 : HRD
AV  - QA21 .S835 2012
U1  - 510.9 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Equations
KW  - History
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Physics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -