author : Graham Farmelo

Contents

• Graham Farmelo.

Foreword: It Must be Beautiful

• Graham Farmelo.

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

• Robert M. May.

The Best Possible Time to be Alive: The Logistic Map

• Oliver Morton.

A Mirror in the Sky: The Drake Equation

• Peter Galison.

The Sextant Equation: E = mc²

• Aisling Irwin.

An Environmental Fairy Tale: The Molina-Rowland Chemical Equation and the CFC Problem

• Arthur I. Miller.

Erotica, Aesthetics and Schrodinger's Wave Equation

• Frank Wilczek.

A Piece of Magic: The Dirac Equation

• John Maynard Smith.

Equations of Life: The Mathematics of Evolution

• Roger Penrose.

The Rediscovery of Gravity: The Einstein Equation of General Relativity

• Igor Aleksander.

Understanding Information, Bit by Bit: Shannon's Equations

• Christine Sutton.

Hidden Symmetry: The Yang-Mills Equation

• Steven Weinberg.

Afterword: How Great Equations Survive