The Greatest Formulas in the World
I am neither a mathematician or a physicist (or anything close!) but I can appreciate the great things people have done - 100s even 1000s of years ago when they stared at a dark abyss of ignorance. There are arguments on some formulae's discovery but that is left for posterity.
(It's a magical world and your children better learn to love numbers - and you can be instrumental in making them love maths!)
The greatest - also because it is the simplest - is the one by Pythagoras. (570 - 495 BCE)
(It is also credited to the Babylonians as it is to Indians' way back in 1000 BCE etc.)
The greatest can always be argued. But few will disagree that Einstein 's theory of relativity is there at the top!
In school when we were explained this formula - it was simply "energy can neither be created or destroyed!"
Nothing about the speed of light. But then we are too naive...
Simply put it means that energy is equal to mass multiplied by speed of light squared.
That was the precursor to the A Bomb. To make matters worse we now have the H bomb!
But that was only one aspect. The formula has been used to calculate that the Big Bang did really happen and it holds true in outer space too...
Einstein made the theory famous but it was the work of many scientists before him that make his discovery possible.
Three hundred years before him Leonhard Eulid had said the same thing but he was ahead of his time!
Bertrand Russel was a mathematician but he is not famous for any formulas though I am sure he did work on some...
So never mind if you are a mathematician or a physicist you have contributed to the field somehow...
(More Later...)
(It's a magical world and your children better learn to love numbers - and you can be instrumental in making them love maths!)
The greatest - also because it is the simplest - is the one by Pythagoras. (570 - 495 BCE)
(It is also credited to the Babylonians as it is to Indians' way back in 1000 BCE etc.)
a2 +b2 = c2
Wow!
e = mc2
In school when we were explained this formula - it was simply "energy can neither be created or destroyed!"
Nothing about the speed of light. But then we are too naive...
Simply put it means that energy is equal to mass multiplied by speed of light squared.
That was the precursor to the A Bomb. To make matters worse we now have the H bomb!
But that was only one aspect. The formula has been used to calculate that the Big Bang did really happen and it holds true in outer space too...
Einstein made the theory famous but it was the work of many scientists before him that make his discovery possible.
Three hundred years before him Leonhard Eulid had said the same thing but he was ahead of his time!
Bertrand Russel was a mathematician but he is not famous for any formulas though I am sure he did work on some...
So never mind if you are a mathematician or a physicist you have contributed to the field somehow...
(More Later...)
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