TheBanyanTree: Happy Pie Day

[Mike Pingleton]

Ah!  I don't understand all of the math, but I get enough to know this
is Something Wonderful.  Much like when I discovered Fibonacci
spirals.  Something Wonderful.

many thanks, Tom!
-Mike

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Tom Smith <deserthiker2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the lift, Mike!
>
> Beth would probably be thrilled to learn about
> Euler's Equation, which many believe is the most
> profound mathematical statement ever discovered:
>
> e raised to the power (i times pi) + 1 = 0
>
> This equation is remarkable because it relates
> 5 fundamental mathematical constants: 0, 1, pi, e
> and i to each other.
>
> Beth already knows some of pi's magic, and
> i is an IMAGINARY number, e is the base of natural
> logarithms; one of these is a "transcendental"
> number.. and they all add up to NOTHING!
>
> Reviews such as "The most beautiful theorem in
> mathematics," "the "greatest equation ever,"
> "the gold standard for mathematical beauty."
> "the most famous formula in all mathematics."
> "...absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it,
> and we don't know what it means, but we have proved
> it, and therefore we know it must be the truth."
> all can be explored at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity
>
> Cheers
> Tom
>
>
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