A revolution with no revolutionaries: The Planck-Einstein equation for the energy of a quantum / Graham Farmelo.
The sextant equation: E = mc2 /Peter Galison.
The rediscovery of gravity: the Einstein equation of general relativity / Roger Penrose.
Erotica, aesthetics and Schrödinger's wave equation / Arthur I. Miller.
A piece of magic: the Dirac equation / Frank Wilczek.
Understanding information, bit by bit: Shannon's equations / Igor Aleksander.
Hidden symmetry: The Yang-Mills equation / Christine Sutton.
A mirror in the sky: The Drake equation / Oliver Morton.
Equations of life: The mathematics of evolution / John Maynard Smith.
The best possible time to be alive: The logistic map / Robert May.
An environmental fairy tale: The Molina-Rowland chemical equations and the CFC problem / Aisling Irwin.
Afterword: How great equations survive / Steven Weinberg.
