The universe in zero words : : the story of mathematics as told through equations /

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Publisher: Princeton University Press,

Publication date: 2012.

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Note (General)：: 1. Why we believe in arithmetic : the world's simplest equation -- 2. Resisting a new concept : the discovery of zero -- 3. The square of the hypotenu...

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 0691152829
0691160163
9780691152820
9780691160160
Title: The universe in zero words : : the story of mathematics as told through equations /
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Princeton, N.J. : : Princeton University Press,
Publication Date: 2012.
Extent: 224 p. : ; 24 cm.
Contributor: Dana Mackenzie.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 411 : Algebra
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): 1. Why we believe in arithmetic : 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 π -- 5. From Zeno's paradoxes to the idea of infinity -- 6. A matter of leverage : laws of levers -- 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 theorems -- 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 -- 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 tigar : the Black-Scholes equation.
Holding library: 東京都立中央図書館
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Call No.: 411.0-M15-U
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7104217183
OCLC No.: 2011936364
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(OCoLC)761851013
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