The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
- ISBN-10
- 039306204X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393062045
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Robert P. Crease
Description
Shares behind-the-scenes stories for ten of the most significant equations in human history, covering a range of topics, from Feynman's statement about Maxwell's pivotal electromagnetic equations and the influence of Newton's law of gravitation to the reason Euler's formula has been called "God's equation" and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. 20,000 first printing.
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