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International Standard Book Number  

9781400841684 (electronic bk.)

International Standard Book Number  

1400841682 (electronic bk.)

International Standard Book Number  

9780691152820

International Standard Book Number  

0691152829

International Standard Book Number  

9780691160160

Library of Congress Call Number  

QA211-.M16 2012eb

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

512.94-23

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Mackenzie, Dana.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012

Physical Description  

1 online resource (224 p) : ill. (some col.).

Bibliography, Etc. Note  

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index.

Formatted Contents Note  

880-01완전내용Pt. 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.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Most 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

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Equations Popular works

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Mathematics History Popular works

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

MATHEMATICS / Algebra / Elementary.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

SCIENCE / Physics / General.

Additional Physical Form Entry  

Print versionMackenzie, Dana. Universe in zero words. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012 9780691152820 (DLC) 2011936364 (OCoLC)761851013

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