The 17 equations that changed the worldLink here.
I sometimes think that the reason Einstein’s equation, E=MC (squared), is so memorable is that in English the sound of the equation, when spoken, has a poetic rhythm to it.
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Link here.
I sometimes think that the reason Einstein’s equation, E=MC (squared), is so memorable is that in English the sound of the equation, when spoken, has a poetic rhythm to it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Very interesting list!
–pleased to know I am somewhat familiar with all of them, except the Shannon’s Information Theory equation.
Referencing the Black–Scholes pricing equation— tying it to modern day financial “derivatives” is technically correct, but it is more accurately “famous” for determining the value of Options, which decay in price to zero, as they approach their exercise date.
[“option,” the right but not the obligation, to purchase or sell something at a future date]
–Also credited with being a fundamental concept underlying what morphed into “portfolio insurance.” [key aspect of which is there has to be sufficient numbers of people on the opposite end of any trade, or the “insurance” fails during high & sustained volatility.]
wayne
Black-Scholes determines the theoretical ‘premium value’ of the option, not the total value which may include intrinsic value as well.
Nick P:
Thanks, it’s been a long time since I had any finance-classes!
tangent– what’s the equation tying together energy, frequency & wavelength? (if I’m asking that anywhere nearly correctly.)
You can substitute that into the “e” of e=mc(squared). (That’s about as ‘deep’ with the Maths that I can handle! Always impressed with people that can handle this sort of symbolic logic, Physics or Finance—“fascinating.”)
I think that someone is formulating a new 18th equation that applies to politics and economics.
(CH) Divided by (T) X’s [Balls / Leverage Constant] = EE (Economic Equilibrium)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-china-idUSKCN0ZF17D
Although not yet president someone is already negotiating with China, and they are paying attention.
Too bad biologists have never learned the second law of thermo-
Phill O:
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the Universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
-Arthur Eddington