The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Robert P. Crease, . . Norton, $24.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-393-06204-5
Although most people can recite Einstein's famous little equation, even if we don't know quite what it means, who has heard of the 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler, let alone know anything at all about his famous equation? Crease, a Stony Brook philosophy professor and popular science writer, has already taken on “the ten most beautiful experiments in science” in
Reviewed on: 10/06/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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