The most beautiful formula

Occasionally, people hold polls for the most beautiful mathematical formula of all time — yes, they really do, I am not  making this up, honest —- and nearly, always the winner is a famous formula discovered by Euler, which uses complex numbers to link the two famous constants e and \pi. The formula is

e^{i \pi}=-1

and it is extremely influential in a branch of mathematics known as complex analysis.

(Prof. Ian Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities).

(culled by)

Nalin Pithwa

This entry was written by Nalin Pithwa, posted on May 28, 2016 at 4:04 pm, filed under Fun with Mathematics, motivational stuff. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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