10 equations that changed the world.

Jan 19, 2019 2:49 AM

TheVaal

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And I still have to take my boots off to count past ten.

Quantified* the world. Also, calculus is best equation 2019

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I can count up to 21 in the shower.

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Futurism is BuzzFeed for science.

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17th century mathematicians: You can’t explaineth gravity mathematically, you’d almost need to inventeth a new math. Newton: Holdeth my beer

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leibniz: oh, hey, guys. whatchya workin' on?

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What about the video compression algorithm used by pornsites?

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They made school a lot more difficult.

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If any of those fields listed above are your interest, then you damn well better be up for the challenge.

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Only if you cared about passing.

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Favorget

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Kalmqn Filter should totally be in there

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Kalman*

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Indian mathematician invention of using 0 (zero)

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Why was I expecting something funny on the end?

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Euler’s identity. e^(i*pi) +1=0

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The simplistic beauty of this cannot be overstated.

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I know not what this means

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I have it tattooed on my upper arm. (true)

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better then grab them

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That's 13.

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No Newton’s second law? More fundamental than gravitation.

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Newton's already in here twice tbf, he invented calculus too

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Newton's greatest achievement was inventing the catflap. There are less inky pawprints on his later manuscripts.

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Pythagoras was a damn wacko if you learn about his beliefs; https://youtu.be/6-FLdkgwhM4

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I thought Schrodinger's Equation was about cats and boxes. Thank you for educating me. +1

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Thanks a lot IMGUR half of posts made me feel fat and now this makes me feel stupid

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When am I getting a quantum PC so I can finally play Crysis on max settings with zero slowdown?

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This is so weird... It's like, here is something we learned about world, also, some math definitions.

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Escape velocity is probably my favorite but I don't know how to get certain signs to show up on a computer.

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Kepler had some fun equations too.

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Maxwell's equations quantified concepts that Faraday had developed, but lacked the math to put them in an "acceptable" form.

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Then Lorentz studied Maxwell to create the Lorentz transformations which led Einstein to Relativity. Such a cool continuum of work.

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But where does the demonology come in?

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it's shown on the door, the cold stays in, the heat is shifted outside. one atom at a time.

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Well, handwaving explanations certainly shouldn't be acceptable

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Faraday demonstrated everything he claimed and made excellent descriptions, just didn't have the math.

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Speaking of, I thought E X del = 0 as E-feilds don't have any curl?

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I scrolled straight to the bottom to see if OP was going to sneak something there on us.

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Chaos theory you say?

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F=ma.

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Several of these aren't equations. If "logarithms" made the list then IMHO Fourier Analysis and Laplace Transforms should have too...

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the second law of thermo dynamics, though simple, is absolute magic

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As a sound engineer, never discount the Fourier Transform. It's a true godsend

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I remember when I figured out Fourier transforms. Then I made an MP3 encoder. Then I got laid and forgot about it all. Good times, man.

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Agreed... and yet... v

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Those were fun to do by hand. I don’t miss those days.

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Nerd.

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he's right tho. including "calculus" and some others is like a list of "top 10 states you should visit" and including "the USA"

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Someone who is interested in knowing things? OH NO

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Shut up nerd.

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no u

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"Ten math-related ideas and some equations"

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O god not Laplace transformations....differential equations was the worst

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why are you cursing Laplace? he made diff eq as easy as 9th grade algebra.

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That's not Einstein's theory of General Relativity. E=mc^2 explains that mass and energy are two forms of the same thing.

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No, it describes the relationship between the two. Mass is mass and energy is energy. There is this thing called the Higgs Boson.

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and you left out the momentum function

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e^2=(mc^2)^2+(pc)^2 simplifies to e=mc^2 when p (momentum) = 0

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Tbh, I didn't start physics 3 yet, and whe I do know about GR I picked up from youtube videos.

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OK, works for gauge bosonsmomentum= mass x velocity

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Sorry, my cat rolled on the keyboard! This is what I meant to write (cat permitting). 1/?

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OK, works for gauge bosons (photons and gluons). But for other particles, momentum = mass x velocity 2/?

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