The squaw on the hippopotamus : Pythagoras's theorem
Shortening the proceedings : logarithms
Ghosts of departed quantities : calculus
The system of the world : Newton's law of gravity
Portent of the ideal world : the scare root of minus one
Much ado about knotting : Euler's formula for polyhedra
Patterns of chance : normal distribution
Good vibrations : wave equation
Ripples and blips : Fourier transform
The ascent of humanity : Navier-Stokes equation
Waves in the ether : Maxwell's equations
Law and disorder : second law of thermodynamics
One thing is absolute : relativity
Quantum weirdness : Schrödinger equation
Codes, communications, and computers : information theory
The imbalance of nature : chaos theory
The Midas formula : Black-Scholes equation
