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008    120418s2012    xxu|||||||||||00| 1|eng c 
020    9780465029730 
041 0  eng  
082 04 511.326|223/eng 
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092 0  510|bengelska 
100 1  Stewart, Ian,|d1945- 
245 10 In pursuit of the unknown :|b17 equations that changed the
       world /|cIan Stewart 
246 30 17 equations that changed the world 
264    New York :|bBasic Books,|c2012 
300    342 s. ;|c3.6 cm 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and 
       index 
505 0  Why equations? -- The squaw on the hippopotamus : 
       Pythagoras's theorem -- Shortening the proceedings : 
       logarithms -- Ghosts of departed quantities : calculus -- 
       The system of the world : Newton's law of gravity -- 
       Portent of the ideal world : the scare root of minus one -
       - Much ado about knotting : Euler's formula for polyhedra 
       -- Patterns of chance : normal distribution -- Good 
       vibrations : wave equation -- Ripples and blips : Fourier 
       transform -- The ascent of humanity : Navier-Stokes 
       equation -- Waves in the ether : Maxwell's equations -- 
       Law and disorder : second law of thermodynamics -- One 
       thing is absolute : relativity -- Quantum weirdness : 
       Schrödinger equation -- Codes, communications, and 
       computers : information theory -- The imbalance of nature 
       : chaos theory -- The Midas formula : Black-Scholes 
       equation -- Where next? 
650  0 Mathematics|xHistory 
650  0 Equations|xHistory 
650  0 Physics|xHistory 
650  7 Matematik|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Fysik|xhistoria|2sao 
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