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Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
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by Michael Guillen
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Hyperion August 29, 1996
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786881879
ISBN-13: 978-0786881871
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Harvard mathematician Guillen looks at five mathematical breakthroughs and the theorists behind them, among them Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Guillen, an instructor in physics and mathematics at Harvard, devotes this work to discussions of five significant equations in physics and the individuals who developed them. The individuals are Issac Newton (universal gravitation), Daniel Bernoulli (hydrodynamic pressure), Michael Faraday (thermodynamics), Rudolf Clausius (thermodynamics), and Albert Einstein (special relativity). Guillen sets their work in the context of the science of their times with accounts that are obviously fictionalized, containing many purported conversations and private thoughts of the physicists in question. The prose is quite purplish in places, and the matters of fact and interpretation are often questionable if not outright wrong. Not recommended for most libraries.?Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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