THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS

You can't present the history of art without pictures/ equally equations are central to any history of mathematics. Spanning 4,000 y ears of civilisation, The Story of Mathematics describes twenty -four great equations that have shaped science and society - from th e elementary (1+1=2) to the sophisticated (the Black -Scholes formula) and from the famous (E=mc2) to the arcane (Hamilton's quatern ion equations).