Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. He works on the mathematics of highly nonlinear systems—ones that respond in dramatic, unpredictable ways to even the smallest changes. It’s the same ...

Climate and ocean models use a series of equations to represent complex natural processes. However, the equations used in ...

A collage of images of Schrödinger, his 100-year-old paper and his equation. The Schrödinger equation was integral to changing the way the world saw chemistry as a science. Credit: Madeline Monroe/TKH ...

Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...