A most elegant equation : Euler's formula and the beauty of mathematics / David Stipp.

Bertrand Russell once wrote that mathematics can delight and 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 concep...

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Main Author: Stipp, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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