Seventeen Equations that Changed the World

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I want to convince you that equations have played a vital part in creating today’s world, from mapmaking to sat-nav, from music to television, from discovering America to exploring the moons of Jupiter.

Wir können froh sein, dass es neben uns Individuen, andere Individuen gibt, die uns diesen Glauben durch Bestätigung erhalten.Word of the method spread across Europe, reaching the ears of the Danish nobleman and astronomer Tycho Brahe. Modern use: Although, as mentioned above, for practical uses Newton's law has been augmented by Einstein's theories, the basic idea of Newtonian gravity is still a useful approximation for how things behave in space.

Modern use: Shannon's entropy measure launched the mathematical study of information, and his results are central to how we communicate over networks today. The square root of -1, usually written i, completes this process, giving rise to the complex numbers. ecuaciones que cambiaron el mundo no es un libro fácil en la medida en que su público potencial seremos lectores sin formación matemática profunda. Too often, mathematics is taught in a rote manner; too many students are turned off by repetitive problems ("Solve the following 40 quadratic equations", and the like), and with too little understanding of the concepts and the true meaning of the many aspects of mathematics.Nonostante a tratti sia stato un libro di non facile lettura, ogni capitolo ha offerto qualcosa di coinvolgente; i temi trattati variano dal mondo microscopico a quello macro, dal punto di vista della matematica e spiegando i fenomeni con la stessa.

History: Michael Faraday did pioneering work on the connection between electricity and magnetism, and James Clerk Maxwell translated it into these equations. That chapter just feels like it was only written so Stewart could vent his frustrations regarding the most recent real estate bubble, which, to be honest, is fair enough. An entertaining and illuminating collection of curious facts and histories suitable for random dipping-in or reading straight through.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The author made it somewhat accessible but at times, the descriptions needed more words to flesh it out. Also, towards the end of the book, chapters started losing that element of excitement that kept you going through the first chapters. History: Though attributed to Pythagoras, it is not certain that he was the first person to prove it.

An interesting idea, but I found the book to be so badly written that it didn't really hold my attention. He often refers to things in today's society that are relevant to the equation and its consequences.When trying to understand these equations we have to start from somewhere and this book is a good place to start. At over 300 pages with some useful black and white figures, I think it is very good value for money (it is also very well laid out and accessible). History: Isaac Newton derived his laws based on earlier astronomical and mathematical work by Johannes Kepler. The Fourier transform is at the heart of modern signal processing and analysis, and data compression.