Seventeen Equations That Changed the World -- Paperback By Stewart, Ian Publisher : Profile Books Ltd Published Date : 2012/02 Binding : Paperback ISBN : 9781846685316 BookWeb Price : AED 104.00 Availability Status : Our fulfillment centre has the item in stock. Usually dispatches within 3 working days.

 
Why Equations?                                     viii
    1 The squaw on the hippopotamus                1   (20)
      Pythagoras's Theorem
    2 Shortening the proceedings                   21  (14)
      Logarithms
    3 Ghosts of departed quantities                35  (18)
      Calculus
    4 The system of the world                      53  (20)
      Newton's Law of Gravity
    5 Portent of the ideal world                   73  (16)
      The Square Root of Minus One
    6 Much ado about knotting                      89  (18)
      Eule's Formula for Polyhedra
    7 Patterns of chance                           107 (24)
      Normal Distribution
    8 Good vibrations                              131 (18)
      Wave Equation
    9 Ripples and blips                            149 (16)
      Fourier Transform
    10 The ascent of humanity                      165 (14)
      Navier-Stokes Equation
    11 Waves in the ether                          179 (16)
      Maxwell's Equations
    12 Law and disorder                            195 (22)
      Second Law of Thermodynamics
    13 One thing is absolute                       217 (28)
      Relativity
    14 Quantum weirdness                           245 (20)
      Schrodinger's Equation
    15 Codes, communications, and computers        265 (18)
      Information Theory
    16 The imbalance of nature                     283 (12)
      Chaos Theory
    17 The Midas formula                           295 (22)
      Black-Scholes Equation
Where Next?                                        317 (4)
Notes                                              321 (9)
Illustration Credits                               330 (1)
Index                                              331