Re: The 20 greatest mathematical equations, interesting

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From: "ed babinski" <ed.babinski@furman.edu>
To: <david.bradford1@which.net>; <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>;
<dfsiemensjr@juno.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>; "John Robbins"
<4jesus@evansville.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:51 AM
Subject: The 20 greatest mathematical equations, interesting

> The greatest equation: is it from Pythagoras? Maxwell? Perhaps itĚs 1 + 1
> = 2. The keys are elegance and richness...
>
> Two articles in Physics World, Oct. 2004
>
> "The Greatest Equations Ever"
> http://www.physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/10/2/1#pwpov2_10-04
>
> "The Twenty Greatest Equations"
> http://www.physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/10/2/1/pwpov2%5F10%2D04
>
> About the author: Robert P Crease is in the Department of Philosophy,
> State University of New York at Stony Brook, and historian at the
> Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Interesting, but a kind of odd assortment of apples, oranges & pears. There
are things like the "simple ratio" a/b = c/d which says nothing at all since
we don't know what a,b,c or d are. There are purely mathematical relations
like e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, and physics equations like Einstein's. (& in the
latter the cosmological term was omitted which is kind of strange since it's
still the simplest way of accounting for cosmic acceleration.)

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Fri Oct 29 00:34:54 2004