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