Five Equations That Changed the World Quotes

“The production of heat is not sufficient to give birth to the impelling power,” Carnot had concluded, “it is necessary that there should be cold; without it, the heat would be useless.”
― Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

“The young man was particularly intrigued by scientists and engineers who had discovered ways of making heat behave in unnatural ways.”
― Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

“Irrevocable processes are those whose consequences are impossible to reverse, like terrible insults whose harm cannot be repaired or the inescapable ravages of time on our bodies.”
― Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

“And just as conventional poetry helps us to see deep within ourselves, mathematical poetry helps us to see far beyond ourselves.”
― Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

“The world had become Newton’s family, with a few notable exceptions. Having laid Robert Hooke to rest, literally, Newton had become involved in an all-out feud with a German philosopher named Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who had claimed credit for discovering the calculus. (See “Between a Rock and a Hard Life.”)”
― Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics