The
most beautiful equation ever
It is said that one day, when the great German
mathematician Leonhard Euler was at the Court of Catherine the Great, a friend
asked him for a proof of the existence of God. Euler is supposed to have
replied with what is now called the Euler Identity and then essentially said
Q.E.D.
Euler's Identity is indeed
beautiful because the five parts of the equation come from vastly different origins,
and each with roles in mathematics that can’t be overstated and that they should
be connected by such a simple relationship, is simply stunning.
One would have to think
that Euler’s identity will appear, to the arbitrarily advanced mathematicians
thousands of years hence, to remain as beautiful and stunning as the day it was
first written.
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