A most elegant equation Euler's formula and the beauty of mathematics
"Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry." This is especially true of one equation: ei (pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed be...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- God's equation
- A constant that's all about change
- It even comes down the chimney
- The number between being and not-being
- Portrait of the master
- Through the wormhole
- From triangles to seesaws
- Reggie's problem
- Putting it together
- A new spin on Euler's formula
- The meaning of it all.
