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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Why Equations?
1 The squaw on the hippopotamus: Pythagoras’s Theorem
2 Shortening the proceedings: Logarithms
3 Ghosts of departed quantities: Calculus
4 The system of the world: Newton’s Law of Gravity
5 Portent of the ideal world: The Square Root of Minus One
6 Much ado about knotting: Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra
7 Patterns of chance: Normal Distribution
8 Good vibrations: Wave Equation
9 Ripples and blips: Fourier Transform
10 The ascent of humanity: Navier–Stokes Equation
11 Waves in the ether: Maxwell’s Equations
12 Law and disorder: Second Law of Thermodynamics
13 One thing is absolute: Relativity
14 Quantum weirdness: Schrödinger’s Equation
15 Codes, Communications, and computers: Information Theory
16 The imbalance of nature: Chaos Theory
17 The Midas formula: Black-Scholes Equation
Where Next?
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
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