It must be beautiful
Subtitle: great equations of modern science
By: edited by Graham Farmelo
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781862074798
Subjects: Équations; Natuurwetenschappen; Science; Histoire; Sciences; Vergelijkingen (wiskunde); Equations; History
Description: A series of essays on the most famous equations of modern science by experts in their fields.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: It must be beautiful  -- Graham Farmelo; title: A revolution with no revolutionaries : the Planck-Einstein equation for the energy of a quantum  -- Graham Farmelo; title: The sextant equation : E = mc2  -- Peter Galison; title: The rediscovery of gravity : the Einstein equation of general relativity  -- Roger Penrose; title: Erotica, aesthetics and Schrödinger's wave equation  -- Arthur I. Miller; title: A piece of magic : the Dirac equation  -- Frank Wilczek; title: Understanding information, bit by bit : Shannon's equations  -- Igor Aleksander; title: Hidden symmetry : the Yang-Mills equation -- Christine Sutton.; title: A mirror in the sky : the Drake equation  -- Oliver Morton; title: Equations of life : the mathematics of evolution  -- John Maynard Smith; title: The best possible time to be alive : the logistic map  -- Robert May; title: An environmental fairy tale : the Molina-Rowland chemical equations and the CFC problem  -- Aisling Irwin; title: Afterword : how great equations survive -- Steven Weinberg.