In It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Graham Farmelo assembled and edited essays on 11 great equations of the 20th century. Six are from physics: E = hf, E = mc 2, Einstein’s ...

In 1961, scientist Frank Drake wrote down a simple-looking equation for estimating the number of active, technologically-advanced, communicating civilizations in the Milky Way. From first principles, ...

I’ve discovered a mathematical equation that has transformed my life – I call it faith. For years, I mistakenly labeled it as luck, but I’ve come to understand it’s something far more powerful. This ...