author : Graham Farmelo

Contents

• Foreword: It Must be Beautiful. 2002

• A Revolution with no revolutionaries: The Planck-Einstein Equation for the Energy of a Quantum. 2002

• Robert M. May. The Best Possible Time to be Alive: The Logistic Map. 2002

• Oliver Morton. A Mirror in the Sky: The Drake Equation. 2002

• Peter Galison. The Sextant Equation: E = mc². 2002

• Aisling Irwin. An Environmental Fairy Tale: The Molina-Rowland Chemical Equation and the CFC Problem. 2002

• Arthur I. Miller. Erotica, Aesthetics and Schrodinger's Wave Equation. 2002

• Frank Wilczek. A Piece of Magic: The Dirac Equation. 2002

• John Maynard Smith. Equations of Life: The Mathematics of Evolution. 2002

• Roger Penrose. The Rediscovery of Gravity: The Einstein Equation of General Relativity. 2002

• Igor Aleksander. Understanding Information, Bit by Bit: Shannon's Equations. 2002

• Christine Sutton. Hidden Symmetry: The Yang-Mills Equation. 2002

• Steven Weinberg. Afterword: How Great Equations Survive. 2002