Seventeen Equations That Changed the World Stewart Ian
Seventeen Equations That Changed the World Stewart Ian From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are…
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Seventeen Equations That Changed the World Stewart Ian
From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life. He explores how Pythagoras's Theorem led to GPS and SatNav; how logarithms are applied in architecture; why imaginary numbers were important in the development of the digital camera, and what is really going on with Schrodinger's cat. Seventeen Equations that Changed the World examines seventeen groundbreaking equations that have altered the course of human history.
Entertaining, surprising and vastly informative, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World is a highly original exploration - and explanation - of life on earth.
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