Why Equations?
1
The squaw on the hippopotamus
Pythagoras’s Theorem
2
Shortening the proceedings
Logarithms
3
Ghosts of departed quantities
Calculus
4
The system of the world
Newton’s Law of Gravity
5
Portent of the ideal world
The Square Root of Minus One
6
Much ado about knotting
Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra
7
Patterns of chance
Normal Distribution
8
Good vibrations
Wave Equation
9
Ripples and blips
Fourier Transform
10
The ascent of humanity
Navier–Stokes Equation
11
Waves in the ether
Maxwell’s Equations
12
Law and disorder
Second Law of Thermodynamics
13
One thing is absolute
Relativity
14
Quantum weirdness
Schrödinger’s Equation
15
Codes, Communications, and computers
Information Theory
16
The imbalance of nature
Chaos Theory
17
The Midas formula
Black-Scholes Equation
Where Next?
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index