Seventeen Equations that Changed the WorldFrom Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations are everywhereand they are fundamental to everyday life. Seventeen Equations that Changed the World examines seventeen groundbreaking equations that have altered the course of human history. The book explores how Pythagoras's Theorem led to GPS and SatNav; how logarithms are applied in architecture; why imaginary numbers were important in the