17 ecuaciones que cambiaron el mundo

Equations, those sets of numbers and symbols separated by the equal sign, are the lifeblood of math, science, and technology. Without them, our world would not exist in its current form: hidden from many, they have been a driving force in human civilization for thousands of years, opening up new perspectives in fields as varied as communications, space technology, and nuclear physics. That it is so, is something that is in charge of demonstrating, with his usual mastery, the distinguished mathematician and renowned popularizer Ian Stewart. For this he has selected 17 equations, belonging to two different groups. One is that of equations that reveal mathematical regularities, such as the Pythagorean theorem, which tells us how the three sides of a right triangle are related, while the other is that of equations that express laws of nature, such as the law of Newton's universal gravitation, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics, or the equation developed by Claude Shannon that defines how much information a message contains.