Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
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Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics is a book written by Michael Guillen in 1995. It is divided into five chapters that talk about five different equations in physics and the people who have developed them. The scientists are:
- Isaac Newton F = GMm / r2 (Universal gravitation)
- Daniel Bernoulli (hydrodynamics)
- Michael Faraday (Electromagnetic induction)
- Rudolf Clausius (thermodynamics)
- Albert Einstein (special relativity)
The book is a light study in science and history, portraying the preludes to and times and settings of discoveries that have been the basis of further development, including space travel, flight and nuclear power. Each chapter of the book is divided into sections titled Veni, Vidi, Vici.
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