In Pursuit of the Unknown 17 Equations That Changed the World
First edition (US)
Author
Ian Stewart
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Profile Books (UK) Basic Books (US)
Publication date
February 2012
Media type
Hardcover
Pages
352
ISBN
978-1-84668-531-6
Preceded by
Cows in the Maze: And Other Mathematical Explorations (2010)[1]
Followed by
Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction (2013)[2]
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books.[3] In the book Stewart traced a history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean equation)[4] to the equation that transformed the twenty-first century financial market, the Black–Scholes model.
^Stewart, Ian (2010). Cows in the Maze: And Other Mathematical Explorations. ISBN 978-0-19-956207-7.
^Stewart, Ian (2013). Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction. ISBN 978-0-19965-198-6.
^Stewart, Ian (2012). In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World. New York: Basic Books. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-84668-531-6.
^Judith D. Sally; Paul Sally (2007). "Chapter 3: Pythagorean triples". Roots to research: a vertical development of mathematical problems. American Mathematical Society Bookstore. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8218-4403-8.
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