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

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 ...

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 – ...