The Great Equations
Robert P. Crease 2008 | Hillsboro 509 CREASE
Worthwhile book, not enough notes while reading. WCCLS also has three other books by Crease
021 01 Pythagorean Theorem
042 interlude Proofs
046 02 Newton's Second Law of Motion
065 interlude The Book of Nature
069 03 Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
088 interlude That Apple
091 04 Euler's Equation
097 interlude Equations as Icons
film: The Glass Bottom Boat
111 05 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
128 interlude The Science of Impossibility
132 06 Maxwell's Equations
152 interlude Overcoming Anosognosia
154 (Irish novelist) John Banville complains about big words in Ian McEwan's novel Saturday
154 anosognosia cognitively unaware of a disability
156 07 E=mc²
180 interlude Crazy Ideas
185 08 Einstein's Equation for General Relativity
209 interlude Science Critics
214 09 Schrödinger's Equation
230 interlude The Double Consciousness of Scientists
235 10 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
261 interlude The Yogi and the Quantum
266 Bringing the Strange Home