Robert P. Crease

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