Ian Stewart Libri

Le equazioni sono la linfa della matematica, delle scienze e della tecnologia. In loro assenza il nostro mondo non esisterebbe così come lo conosciamo. Senza le quattro equazioni che descrivono l'elettromagnetismo non avremmo la radio, il radar e la televisione. Senza l'equazione alla base della teoria dell'informazione non ci sarebbero tutti i sistemi digitali, dai telefoni a Internet. E se oggi siamo in grado di decifrare la natura del cosmo e di esplorare i pianeti lo dobbiamo alla scoperta della legge gravitazionale di Newton. Dal teorema di Pitagora alla E=mc² di Einstein, fino alle formule della meccanica quantistica, della teoria del caos o delle più acrobatiche operazioni finanziarie, Ian Stewart passa in rassegna le diciassette equazioni che hanno cambiato la storia dell'umanità. E lo fa spiegando non solo l'enorme impatto che hanno avuto sul progresso e la vita di tutti, ma riuscendo nel miracolo di svelare il loro limpido splendore anche a chi con i numeri non ha mai avuto molta dimestichezza.

A collection of Ian Stewart's recreational columns from Pour la Science, which demonstrate his ability to bring modern maths to life.

The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but not real understanding or greater intellectual independence. The new edition of this classic work seeks to address this problem. Its goal is to put the meaning back into mathematics. "Lucid . . . easily understandable".--Albert Einstein. 301 linecuts.

The year is 1835, and two strangers on the murky banks of the Union Canal make boatmaster James Ross a proposition. They will give him a pound in return for an alibi. Should anyone ask, they have been aboard his vessel all night. Ross glimpses their mud-spattered shoes. What have they been doing?A century later, Dalmuir couple Edith and Charles Hunter set off on a wintry evening walk along the Forth and Clyde. Minutes later cries of distress are heard from the banks, but the Hunters have gone. A police search soon becomes a sensational murder case.Scotland’s major canals, from the Highlands to the Lowlands, all feature in the annals of crime. In this fascinating new history T.A. Stewart reveals how assailants and thieves, and even kidnappers and terrorists, have been drawn to the waterways to practise their black arts.

Exploring the changing face of love, from the 16th century to the present, through masterpieces of portraiture Drawing on recent scholarship, Love Stories explores changing ideas of love, and gives readers the opportunity to discover love stories both tragic and transcendent.The stories cover a variety of the muse, scandal, tragedy, literature, the shared studio and life lived in front of the camera. These themes are illustrated through the stories of such well-known names as the Bloomsbury Group, Oscar Wilde, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Lee Miller and Man Ray, and many more.Love Stories is brought to life through the perspective of various authors, using material from the sitters’ own letters, diaries and poetry, while highlighting their connection to and influence on some of the greatest masterpieces of art.

One of the world's great mathematicians explores the origins, history and future of the universe.

In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts of groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other mathematical subjects. 200 illustrations.