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Five equations that changed the world : the power and poetry of mathematics / Michael Guillen

An exploration of five pivotal mathematical equations and the lives of the scientists who discovered them. The text analyses the personal and social contexts behind scientific breakthroughs in electricity, aviation, space exploration, and nuclear physics.

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