LATEST ART BOOKSSeventeen Equations That Changed the World
Ian Stewart
Profile Books
London, 2012; hardback, cm 15,5x23,5.
ISBN: 1-84668-531-1 - EAN13: 9781846685316
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Weight: 0.53 kg
Trade paperback. A history of humanity told through 17 defining equations, from Pythagoras to Calculus. From the author of the }Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities{ and }Hoard Of Mathematical Treasures{, which have sold over 100,000 copies in 2 years. Stewart explains how Pythagoras's Theorem led to GPS and SatNav, how logarithms are applied in architecture, and why imaginary numbers were important in the development of the digital camera.
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