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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Cochrane, Richard (Richard John), author.     Subjects     Equations -- Popular works.     Mathematics -- History -- Popular works.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cochrane, Richard (Richard John), author.       by title:      The secret life of e...         MARC Display

The secret life of equations : the 50 greatest equations and how they work / Rich Cochrane. by Cochrane, Richard (Richard John), author. Buffalo, New York : Firefly Books, 2016. Subjects Equations -- Popular works.   Mathematics -- History -- Popular works. ISBN:  9781770858084 (paperback) Description:  192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm Contents:  Shape of Space -- Geometry and Number -- Pythagoras's Theorem -- Trigonometry -- Conic Sections -- Zeno's Dichotomy -- Fibonacci Numbers -- Fundamental Theorem of Calculus -- Curvature -- Frenet-Serret Frames -- Logarithms -- Euler's Identity -- Euler Characteristic -- Hairy Ball Theorem -- Mirror up to Nature -- Science -- Kepler's First Law -- Newton's Second Law -- Universal Gravitation -- Conservation of Angular Momentum -- Ideal Gas Law -- Snell's Law -- Brownian Motion -- Entropy -- Damped Harmonic Oscillator -- Heat Equation -- Wave Equation -- E = MC2 -- Maxwell's Equations -- Navier-Stokes Equation -- Lotka-Volterra Equations -- Schrodinger Wave Equation -- What Have You Done For Me Lately? -- Technology -- Mercator Projection -- Spherical Trigonometry -- Cross-Ratio -- Cauchy Stress Tensor -- Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation -- De Morgan's Laws -- Error-Correcting Codes -- Information Theory -- Fourier Transform -- Black-Scholes Equation -- Fuzzy Logic -- Degrees of Freedom -- Quaternion Rotation -- Google PageRank -- Known Unknowns -- Chance and Uncertainty -- Uniform Distribution -- Gambler's Ruin -- Bayes's Theorem -- Exponential Distribution -- Law of Large Numbers -- Normal Distribution -- Chi-Square Test -- Secretary Problem. Requests:  0 Summary:  "From Brouwer's Hairy Ball Theorem to the Lotka-Volterra model, equations have had a direct effect on how we understand the world. In an engaging text and fun illustrations, you can follow the evolution of each equation and how they are fundamental to our understanding of the world and how we function in it, not to mention the unfathomable universe."   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 512.94 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 512.94 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 512.94 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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