内容简介
方程是世界的基本法则，改变了人类的命运，从波动方程、麦克斯韦方程组，到用于预测金融市场的布莱克–斯科尔斯方程，方程在生活中无处不在。毕达哥拉斯定理如何催生全球卫星定位系统？对数如何在建筑学中发挥应用？虚数为何对数码相机的发展至关重要？薛定谔的猫到底发生了什么？……
本书选取17个对人类社会产生重要影响的方程，以生动有趣的笔触讲述了它们背后的历史故事，以及它们如何推动了人类文明的发展，并从数学的角度对地球万物进行了独创性的探索与阐释。
作者简介
[英]伊恩•斯图尔特/Ian Stewart
英国皇家学会会员，曾获英国皇家学会的“法拉第奖章”、美国科学促进会的“公众理解科学技术奖”和英国伦敦数学学会与英国数学及应用研究院颁发的“塞曼奖章”，英国沃里克大学数学系荣退教授。在专业研究之余，他也积极致力于向公众传播数学。著有多部优秀数学科普作品，如《谁在掷骰子？不确定的数学》《不可思议的数》《数学万花筒》系列等。本书荣获欧拉图书奖。
Content introduction
Equations are the fundamental laws of the world and have changed the fate of mankind. From the wave equations and Maxwell's equations to the Black-Scholes equations used to predict financial markets, equations are everywhere in life. How did the Pythagorean theorem lead to the Global Positioning System? How can logarithms be used in architecture? Why are imaginary numbers important to the development of digital cameras? What happened to Schrodinger's cat? ...
This book selects 17 equations that have an important impact on human society, tells the historical story behind them with vivid and interesting writing, and how they have promoted the development of human civilization, and makes an original exploration and interpretation of everything on Earth from the perspective of mathematics.
About the author
[E] Ian Stewart
A member of the Royal Society, he has won the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society, the Prize for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Zeeman Medal of the London Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematics and Applied Sciences. In addition to his professional research, he was actively engaged in communicating mathematics to the public. He is the author of many excellent mathematical popular science works, such as "Who is Playing dice? Uncertain Mathematics", "Incredible numbers" and "Mathematical Kaleidoscope" series. This book won the Euler Book Prize.
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