- Mathematics, Equations, Physics, History
In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress.
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Warm, earnest, cool and grave.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Ian Stewart
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 361
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd, Zahar, Basic Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781846685323
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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England. *--Wikipedia*
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