I have a copy of the book at home, Ian Stewart is a very good populariser of maths.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seventeen-Equations-that-Changed-Wor...
You should take the title of the book literally, equations that changed the world (but not necessarily for the better).
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I have a copy of the book at home, Ian Stewart is a very good populariser of maths.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seventeen-Equations-that-Changed-Wor...
You should take the title of the book literally, equations that changed the world (but not necessarily for the better).