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The World's Most Beautiful Equations?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aesthetics-and-mathematical-elegance dept.

music4l numb3rs asks: "'An exhibition of the world's most beautiful equations...and some of the ugliest ones too' is how the artist Justin Mullins describes his upcoming show in London. He's exhibiting a number of old favourites such as Maxwell's equations and Euler's relation plus some I've not come across such as entanglement. As for ugliness, he points to the four color theorem. My question to contemplate over the holiday period is: what do Slashdot readers think are the most beautiful equations, and the most ugly ones too?"

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  1. definition of a derivative by radical_dementia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the derivative of a function f at a is f'(a) = lim:h->0 (f(a+h) - f(a))/h thats pretty much the basis of calculus

  2. Huh? by The+NPS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is anyone here good at math? I'm not.