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01 / Nature & Cosmos

Nature & Cosmos

Laws describing matter, space, planetary systems, living processes, and the large-scale structure of reality.

67 laws
Physics26 entries
Scientific Newton's Laws of Motion Open guide ->
Scientific Newton's First Law Future guide
Scientific Newton's Second Law Future guide
Scientific Newton's Third Law Future guide
Scientific Law of Universal Gravitation Future guide
Scientific Conservation of Energy Future guide
Scientific Conservation of Momentum Future guide
Scientific Conservation of Angular Momentum Future guide
Scientific Coulomb's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Ohm's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Bernoulli's Principle Open guide ->
Scientific Hooke's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Joule's Law Future guide
Scientific Kirchhoff's Laws Future guide
Scientific Faraday's Law Future guide
Scientific Ampere-Maxwell Law Future guide
Scientific Gauss's Laws Future guide
Scientific Lenz's Law Future guide
Scientific Lorentz Force Law Future guide
Scientific Snell's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Beer-Lambert Law Future guide
Scientific Stefan-Boltzmann Law Open guide ->
Scientific Wien's Law Future guide
Scientific Planck's Law Future guide
Scientific Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Future guide
Scientific Second Law of Thermodynamics Open guide ->
Cosmos10 entries
Scientific Kepler's Laws Open guide ->
Scientific Hubble-Lemaitre Law Open guide ->
Empirical Titius-Bode Law Future guide
Empirical Tully-Fisher Relation Future guide
Empirical Faber-Jackson Relation Future guide
Empirical Kennicutt-Schmidt Law Future guide
Scientific Chandrasekhar Limit Future guide
Scientific Eddington Limit Future guide
Mathematical Virial Theorem Future guide
Scientific Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy Future guide
Earth Systems11 entries
Scientific Steno's Laws Future guide
Scientific Law of Superposition Future guide
Empirical Walther's Law Future guide
Scientific Darcy's Law Future guide
Empirical Buys Ballot's Law Future guide
Scientific Ferrel's Law Future guide
Scientific Coriolis Effect Future guide
Empirical Gutenberg-Richter Law Open guide ->
Empirical Omori-Utsu Law Open guide ->
Empirical Horton's Laws Future guide
Empirical Hack's Law Future guide
Life & Evolution20 entries
Scientific Mendel's Laws Open guide ->
Mathematical Hardy-Weinberg Principle Open guide ->
Mathematical Fisher's Fundamental Theorem Future guide
Empirical Haldane's Rule Future guide
Mathematical Price Equation Future guide
Mathematical Hamilton's Rule Future guide
Empirical Gause's Law Future guide
Empirical Liebig's Law of the Minimum Future guide
Empirical Shelford's Law of Tolerance Future guide
Mathematical Lotka-Volterra Equations Future guide
Empirical Species-Area Relationship Future guide
Empirical Dollo's Law Future guide
Empirical Cope's Rule Future guide
Empirical Bergmann's Rule Future guide
Empirical Allen's Rule Future guide
Empirical Island Rule Future guide
Empirical Kleiber's Law Future guide
Mathematical Square-Cube Law Future guide
Heuristic Red Queen Hypothesis Future guide
Scientific Muller's Ratchet Future guide
02 / Mind & Behavior

Mind & Behavior

Regularities in perception, cognition, judgment, choice, learning, and social behavior.

39 laws
Perception10 entries
Scientific Weber's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Fechner's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Stevens' Power Law Future guide
Scientific Fitts's Law Open guide ->
Scientific Hick-Hyman Law Open guide ->
Empirical Yerkes-Dodson Law Open guide ->
Empirical Pieron's Law Future guide
Empirical Bloch's Law Future guide
Empirical Ricco's Law Future guide
Empirical Emmert's Law Future guide
Cognitive Biases12 entries
Empirical Anchoring Effect Open guide ->
Empirical Availability Heuristic Future guide
Empirical Confirmation Bias Future guide
Empirical Framing Effect Future guide
Empirical Endowment Effect Future guide
Empirical Loss Aversion Open guide ->
Empirical Dunning-Kruger Effect Open guide ->
Empirical Halo Effect Future guide
Empirical Mere Exposure Effect Future guide
Empirical Peak-End Rule Open guide ->
Empirical Von Restorff Effect Future guide
Empirical Zeigarnik Effect Future guide
Decision Making8 entries
Empirical Prospect Theory Future guide
Empirical Matching Law Future guide
Empirical Hyperbolic Discounting Future guide
Heuristic Satisficing Future guide
Empirical Regret Aversion Future guide
Empirical Ellsberg Paradox Future guide
Empirical Allais Paradox Future guide
Mathematical St. Petersburg Paradox Future guide
Social Behavior9 entries
Empirical Dunbar's Number Open guide ->
Empirical Ringelmann Effect Open guide ->
Empirical Bystander Effect Open guide ->
Heuristic Social Proof Future guide
Empirical Asch Conformity Effect Future guide
Empirical Milgram Obedience Effect Future guide
Empirical Homophily Principle Future guide
Empirical Strength of Weak Ties Future guide
Empirical Small-World Phenomenon Future guide
03 / Systems & Complexity

Systems & Complexity

Principles for understanding failure, feedback, networks, emergence, resilience, and interacting parts.

32 laws
Risk & Failure8 entries
Heuristic Murphy's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Normal Accident Theory Open guide ->
Heuristic Swiss Cheese Model Open guide ->
Heuristic Law of Unintended Consequences Future guide
Heuristic Black Swan Theory Future guide
Empirical Peltzman Effect Future guide
Empirical Heinrich's Law Future guide
Heuristic Law of Triviality Future guide
Networks9 entries
Heuristic Metcalfe's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Reed's Law Future guide
Heuristic Sarnoff's Law Future guide
Empirical Power-Law Networks Future guide
Mathematical Preferential Attachment Future guide
Mathematical Barabasi-Albert Model Future guide
Empirical Six Degrees of Separation Future guide
Empirical Network Effects Future guide
Mathematical Braess's Paradox Open guide ->
Emergence7 entries
Mathematical Schelling Segregation Model Open guide ->
Mathematical Conway's Game of Life Future guide
Scientific Self-Organized Criticality Future guide
Mathematical Sandpile Model Future guide
Scientific Phase Transition Future guide
Scientific Butterfly Effect Open guide ->
Empirical Path Dependence Future guide
04 / Economics & Organizations

Economics & Organizations

Patterns produced by incentives, markets, institutions, coordination, management, and measurement.

38 laws
Incentives8 entries
Heuristic Principal-Agent Problem Open guide ->
Empirical Moral Hazard Future guide
Empirical Adverse Selection Future guide
Empirical Crowding-Out Effect Future guide
Heuristic Cobra Effect Open guide ->
Heuristic Goodhart's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Campbell's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Lucas Critique Future guide
Markets13 entries
Empirical Law of Supply and Demand Open guide ->
Empirical Law of One Price Future guide
Empirical Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility Future guide
Empirical Law of Diminishing Returns Open guide ->
Mathematical Comparative Advantage Future guide
Heuristic Say's Law Future guide
Empirical Gresham's Law Open guide ->
Empirical Engel's Law Future guide
Empirical Okun's Law Future guide
Empirical Phillips Curve Future guide
Empirical Baumol's Cost Disease Open guide ->
Mathematical Black-Scholes Model Open guide ->
Mathematical Coase Theorem Open guide ->
Management9 entries
Heuristic Pareto Principle Open guide ->
Heuristic Parkinson's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Peter Principle Open guide ->
Heuristic Brooks's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Hofstadter's Law Future guide
Heuristic Conway's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Iron Law of Oligarchy Future guide
Heuristic Student Syndrome Future guide
Heuristic Putt's Law Future guide
Metrics8 entries
Heuristic McNamara Fallacy Future guide
Heuristic Streetlight Effect Future guide
Empirical Survivorship Bias Future guide
Mathematical Regression to the Mean Open guide ->
Mathematical Simpson's Paradox Open guide ->
Mathematical Berkson's Paradox Future guide
Heuristic Goodhart's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Campbell's Law Open guide ->
05 / Mathematics & Probability

Mathematics & Probability

Formal laws and statistical regularities involving uncertainty, distributions, games, and quantitative structure.

31 laws
Probability8 entries
Mathematical Law of Large Numbers Open guide ->
Mathematical Central Limit Theorem Open guide ->
Mathematical Bayes' Theorem Open guide ->
Mathematical Birthday Paradox Open guide ->
Mathematical Law of Total Probability Future guide
Mathematical Borel-Cantelli Lemmas Future guide
Mathematical Kolmogorov's Zero-One Law Future guide
Mathematical Law of the Iterated Logarithm Future guide
Statistics7 entries
Mathematical Benford's Law Open guide ->
Mathematical Chebyshev's Inequality Open guide ->
Mathematical Markov's Inequality Open guide ->
Mathematical Jensen's Inequality Future guide
Mathematical Hoeffding's Inequality Future guide
Mathematical Chernoff Bound Future guide
Mathematical Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem Future guide
Distributions8 entries
Mathematical Pareto Distribution Future guide
Empirical Zipf Distribution Future guide
Mathematical Normal Distribution Future guide
Mathematical Poisson Distribution Future guide
Mathematical Exponential Distribution Future guide
Mathematical Log-Normal Distribution Future guide
Mathematical Power-Law Distribution Open guide ->
Mathematical Birthday Problem Open guide ->
Game Theory8 entries
Mathematical Nash Equilibrium Open guide ->
Mathematical Minimax Theorem Future guide
Mathematical Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Open guide ->
Mathematical Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem Future guide
Mathematical Condorcet Paradox Future guide
Mathematical Prisoner's Dilemma Future guide
Mathematical Price of Anarchy Future guide
Mathematical Folk Theorem Future guide
06 / Technology & Computation

Technology & Computation

Laws governing computing progress, software systems, information, algorithms, and digital platforms.

32 laws
Computing8 entries
Empirical Moore's Law Open guide ->
Mathematical Amdahl's Law Open guide ->
Mathematical Gustafson's Law Open guide ->
Empirical Dennard Scaling Future guide
Empirical Koomey's Law Future guide
Empirical Kryder's Law Future guide
Heuristic Wirth's Law Open guide ->
Empirical Rock's Law Future guide
Software Engineering9 entries
Heuristic Brooks's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Conway's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Postel's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Linus's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Hyrum's Law Future guide
Heuristic Zawinski's Law Future guide
Heuristic Greenspun's Tenth Rule Future guide
Heuristic Gall's Law Future guide
Heuristic Hofstadter's Law Future guide
Information Theory7 entries
Mathematical Shannon Entropy Future guide
Mathematical Shannon-Hartley Theorem Open guide ->
Mathematical Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem Future guide
Mathematical Shannon Source Coding Theorem Future guide
Mathematical Noisy-Channel Coding Theorem Future guide
Mathematical Kolmogorov Complexity Future guide
Mathematical Minimum Description Length Future guide
Platforms8 entries
Mathematical CAP Theorem Open guide ->
Mathematical Little's Law Open guide ->
Mathematical Universal Scalability Law Future guide
Empirical Network Effects Future guide
Heuristic Metcalfe's Law Open guide ->
Heuristic Reed's Law Future guide
Mathematical Power-Law Distribution Open guide ->
Heuristic Pareto Principle Open guide ->
07 / Culture & Communication

Culture & Communication

Patterns in language, media, collective belief, diffusion, attention, and cultural transmission.

32 laws
Language8 entries
Empirical Zipf's Law Open guide ->
Empirical Heaps' Law Future guide
Empirical Menzerath-Altmann Law Future guide
Empirical Zipf's Law of Abbreviation Future guide
Empirical Piotrowski's Law Future guide
Scientific Grimm's Law Future guide
Scientific Verner's Law Future guide
Empirical Jespersen's Cycle Future guide
Memes8 entries
Mathematical Bass Diffusion Model Open guide ->
Mathematical Threshold Model Future guide
Mathematical Information Cascade Open guide ->
Empirical Matthew Effect Future guide
Heuristic Lindy Effect Open guide ->
Empirical S-Curve Adoption Future guide
Empirical Complex Contagion Future guide
Empirical Cumulative Advantage Future guide
Collective Belief8 entries
Empirical Spiral of Silence Open guide ->
Empirical Pluralistic Ignorance Future guide
Empirical False Consensus Effect Future guide
Empirical Group Polarization Future guide
Empirical Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Future guide
Heuristic Thomas Theorem Future guide
Mathematical Common Knowledge Future guide
Mathematical Schelling Segregation Model Open guide ->
READING NOTE

A catalog entry is not a finished article.

Scientific

Testable relations in the observable world.

Mathematical

Formal results, theorems, and distributional structure.

Empirical

Observed regularities that may shift with context.

Heuristic

Useful rules of thumb, models, and cultural aphorisms.