Jonathan Borwein (Jon) receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Often described as “the most beautiful formula in mathematics”, Euler seems never to have actually written it down – ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Euler’s identity is an equality found in mathematics that has been compared to a Shakespearean ...

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What is it that makes Euler's identity, e]iPi + 1 = 0, so special? In Euler's Pioneering Equation Robin Wilson shows how this simple, elegant, and profound formula links together perhaps the five most ...