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Partial differential equations

  • Schrödinger equationIn December of 1925, Erwin Schrödinger secluded himself in a mountain cabin with a mistress. He had been working on a relativistic wave equation that…
  • Noether's theoremIn 1918, mathematician Emmy Noether published a paper titled Invariante Variationsprobleme. This document established a rule linking continuous symmetries to…
  • Einstein field equationsAlbert Einstein published the field equations in November 1915. The presentation occurred during a series of lectures at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in…
  • Maxwell's equationsIn 1861, James Clerk Maxwell published a paper titled On Physical Lines of Force that introduced early concepts of electromagnetic fields.