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It must be beautiful : great equations of modern science Cover Image Book Book

It must be beautiful : great equations of modern science / edited by Graham Farmelo.

Farmelo, Graham. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 1862075557
  • ISBN: 9781862075559
  • Physical Description: xviii, 284 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: London : Granta, 2002

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
It must be beautiful / Graham Farmelo -- A revolution with no revolutionaries : the Planck-Einstein equation for the energy of a quantum / Graham Farmelo -- The sextant equation : E = mc2 / Peter Galison -- The rediscovery of gravity : the Einstein equation of general relativity / Roger Penrose -- Erotica, aesthetics and Schrd̲inger's wave equation / Arthur I. Miller -- A piece of magic : the Dirac equation / Frank Wilczek -- Understanding information, bit by bit : Shannon's equations / Igor Aleksander -- Hidden symmetry : the Yang-Mills equation / Christine Sutton.
A mirror in the sky : the Drake equation / Oliver Morton -- Equations of life : the mathematics of evolution / John Maynard Smith -- The best possible time to be alive : the logistic map / Robert May -- An environmental fairy tale : the Molina-Rowland chemical equations and the CFC problem / Aisling Irwin -- Afterword : how great equations survive / Steven Weinberg.

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