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The universe in zero words : the story of mathematics as told through equations / [electronic resource]
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| 자료유형 | E-Book |
|---|---|
| 개인저자 | Mackenzie, Dana. |
| 서명/저자사항 | The universe in zero words[electronic resource] :the story of mathematics as told through equations /Dana Mackenzie. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (224 p.) : ill. (some col.). |
| ISBN | 9781400841684 (electronic bk.) 1400841682 (electronic bk.) |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index. |
| 내용주기 | Pt. 1. Equations of antiquity -- 1. Why we believe in arithmatic: the world's simplest equation -- 2. Resisting a new concept: the discovery of zero -- 3. The square of the hypotenuse: the Pythagorean theorem -- 4. The circle game: the discovery of [pi] -- From Zeno's paradoxes to the idea of infinity -- 6. A matter of leverage: laws of levers -- Pt. 2. Equations in the age of exploration -- 7. the stammerer's secret: Cardano's formula -- 8. Order in the heavens: Kepler's laws of planetary motion -- 9. Writing for eternity: Fermat's last theorem -- 10. An unexplored continent: the fundamental theorem of calculus -- 11. Of apples, legends ... and comets: Newton's laws -- 12. The great explorer: Euler's therems -- Pt. 3 Equations in a promethean age -- 13. The new algebra: Hamilton and quaternions -- 14. Two shooting stars: group theory -- 15. The geometry of whales and ants: non-Euclidean geometry -- 16. In primes we trust: the prime number theorem -- 17. The idea of spectra: Fourier series -- 18. A god's-eye view of light: Maxwell's equations -- Pt. 4. Equations in our own time -- 19. The photoelectric effect: quanta and relativity -- 20. From a bad cigar to Westminster Abbey: Dirac's formula -- 21. The empire-builder: the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet equation -- 22. A little bit infinite: the Continuum Hypothesis -- 23. Theories of chaos: Lorenz equations -- 24. Taming the tiger: the Black-Scholes equation. |
| 요약 | Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then, should a history of mathematics--the universal language of science--keep the masterpieces of the subject hidden behind a veil? The Universe in Zero Words tells the history of twenty-four great and beautiful equations that have shaped mathematics, science, and society--from the elementary |
| 일반주제명 | Equations -- Popular works. Mathematics -- History -- Popular works. MATHEMATICS / Algebra / Elementary. SCIENCE / Physics / General. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version:Mackenzie, Dana.Universe in zero words.Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 20129780691152820 |
| 대출바로가기 | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=444125 |
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