Physics World magazine asked readers to vote for their favourite formulae, theorems and equations according to their elegance, explanatory power and importance to the development of their discipline.
Joint winners were the work of James Clerk Maxwell and Leonhard Euler. Maxwell devised equations on electromagnetism that united electricity and magnetism, phenomena previously thought unrelated. Euler's equation was called the "most profound mathematical statement ever written" by one reader, and contains the nine basic components of mathematics in a simple formula.
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