Portal:Annotating the Wall

The following list contains the names of all equations, formulas, and illustrations that are shown on the Wall. The goal is to create a helpful explanation for each element of the list.


 * I.  Jones polynomial for right trefoil knot; Witten’s path-integral formulation for Jones polynomial using Chern-Simons action
 * II. Feynmann Diagram illustrating Associativity equation in Quantum Field Theory
 * III. Yang-Baxter equation
 * IV. Lorenz Attractor: Lorenz equations with orbit
 * V.  Diagram of a black hole with Schwarzschild radius
 * VI. The five regular polyhedra
 * VII. Equiangular spiral drawn in "golden" rectangle (side ratio = golden mean g), ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers approaches g, represented by its continued fraction expansion.
 * VIII.Babylonian computation of the square root of 2
 * IX. Visual proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
 * X.  Cell decomposition of torus; Euler characteristic; Gauss-Bonnet formula.
 * XI. Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder.
 * XII. Aharanov-Bohm effect
 * XIII.Supergravity Langangian; root diagramm for Lie group E8
 * XIV. Navier-Stokes equation with flow around cylinder.


 * 0.  In Ellipse: (Kepler's 1st law represented by star, ellipse, planet)
 * 1.  Kepler's 2nd law
 * 2.  Newton's force-acceleration equation
 * 3.  Kepler's 3rd law
 * 4.  Newton's gravitational law
 * 5.  Einstein's General Relativity equation
 * 6.  Schrödinger's equation
 * 7.  Dirac equation
 * 8.  Atiyah-Singer Theorem
 * 9.  Yang-Mills equations
 * 10. Defining relation of Supersymmetry


 * A. Einstein’s mass-energy equation
 * B. Maxwell's Equations
 * C. Stoke's Theorem
 * D. The boundary of a boundary is zero
 * E. Heisenberg's indeterminacy relation
 * F. Euler's formula for Zeta-function
 * G. Interaction between two string; Feynman diagram shows corresponding interaction of particles, here the Compton scattering of a photon off an electron.

Further Resources

 * Youtube playlist with helpful videos
 * List of elements on the Wall at Stony Brook