Equations that changed the world

Pythagora’s Theorem, Pythagoras, 530 BC

 

Logarithms, John Napier, 1610

 

Calculus, Isaac Newton, 1668

 

Law of Grativity, Isaac Newton, 1687

 

The Square Root of Minus One, Imaginary Numbers, Euler, 1750

 

Euler’s Formula of Polyhedra, Euler, 1751

 

Normal Distribution, C.F. Gauss, 1810

 

Wave Equation, J. d’Almbert, 1746

 

Fourier Transform, J. Fourier, 1822

 

Navier-Stokes Equation, C. Navier, G. Stokes, 1845

 

Maxwell’s Equations, J.C. Maxwell, 1865

 

Second Law of Thermodynamics, L. Boltzmann, 1874

 

Relativity, A. Einstein, 1905

 

Schrodinger’s Equation, E. Schrodinger, 1927

 

Information Theory, C. Shannon, 1949

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