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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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.