Stewart, Ian,  1945- <br/><br/>
In pursuit of the unknown :  17 equations that changed the world / 
 17 equations that changed the world 
Ian Stewart. 
 - New York :  Basic Books,  2012. 
 - x, 342 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 : SchroÌdinger equation -- Codes, communications, and computers : information theory -- The imbalance of nature : chaos theory -- The Midas formula : Black-Scholes equation -- Where next? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780465029730 0465029736 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011944850 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematics--History.<br/>Equations--History.<br/>Physics--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA21  / .S834 2012