“It is more important to have beauty in the equations of physics than to have them agree with experiments”. The great British physicist P. A. M. Dirac held this view. Criticize this statement. Look out for some equations and results in this book which strike you as beautiful.

An equation strikes to someone as beautiful if it’s essence is understood to him/her. Some of the beautiful equations from this book are Newton’s 2nd Law of motion (i.e. F = ma), Einstein’s Equation for mass-energy relation (E = mc2).There are some equations of Quantum Mechanics and Theory of Relativity are highly cumbersome and difficult to understand, yet they agree with the experiments.


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