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17 Equations That Changed the World
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. In the book Stewart traced a history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem to the equation that transformed the twenty-first-century financial market, the Black–Scholes model. Seventeen equations are described in […]
Thank “James Clerk Maxwell” for Cellphones
NOW THAT THE WORLD HAS BECOME ADDICTED to portable electronics, billions of people have come to see the companies providing these gadgets as the most innovative, and the people who head those companies as the most exalted, of all time. “Genius” is a starter category in this discussion. But clever and appealing though today’s electronic […]