"Everyone likes simple equations.
In the early 1900s, mathematicians figured out how to represent a population of organisms in simple equations.
One writes down two simple equations and solves them -- it's strictly formulaic; there is no subtlety involved.
Of course, life can rarely be boiled down to simple equations of cause and effect.
Mathematicians will recognise the ratios provided by Harriss's proportion systems as "algebraic numbers" – which are those numbers that are solutions to simple equations.
Chao, chanting in English, delivers a series of simple equations: "Politik use drugs, politik use bombs, politik need torpedoes, politik needs blood.
For many purposes, however, the simple equations given here are adequate, especially with regard to reactions in aqueous solutions.
After two years of analysis, West and Bettencourt discovered that all of these urban variables could be described by a few exquisitely simple equations.
It was stories like this — vivid anecdotes of animal behavior, encapsulated by simple equations — that first got Martin Nowak interested in biology as an undergraduate at the University of Vienna, in the nineteen-eighties.
In a tableau in which the children practice math, a boy points at a bulletin board with simple equations pinned to it higgledy-piggledy; in his enthusiasm, he almost seems to be vibrating.
The remaining interesting cases comprise only a few simple equations.
