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The greatest equations ever

10 May 2004 Robert P Crease

What makes a great equation? Robert P Crease seeks your candidates and criteria

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Symbols of beauty - what are your contenders for the greatest equation of all time?
In It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Graham Farmelo assembled and edited essa

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