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Seriously, it is. Euler’s number (e) is soooo much more influential than pi. The mathematical contributions that e makes (the exponential and logarithmic function, hyperbolic and elliptical sine and cosine, the most beautiful equation in the world) outnumber those of pi (lengths/area of a circle?? even this isn’t a contribution that pi has made in and of itself as a number…) I mean yeah, it’s cool that pi shows up everywhere, but atp it’s just like an interesting cameo with circles, and EVEN CIRCLES CAN BE WRITTEN WITH EULERS NUMBER AND THE IMAGINARY NUMBER!!! Honestly what does pi have over e besides the fact that if you add e and pi together you get an excuse to eat pie on March 14.
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introduced to the concept from this veritasium video. and holy shit it was like my brain exploded before my very eyes. infinite integers in strings of digits can be 0 or negative and all this counterintuitive shit. its like doing decimal mathematics but to the left of the decimal point instead.
astounding. and they proved fermat's last thm with it?????? insane
Jan 29, 2024
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was jumping around github websites... somehow ended up on this guy's list of "Top Ten" items 1️⃣0️⃣
some lists include
- 10 Stupidest Olympic Events
- 10 Mathematicians That I Know Well Whom I've Never Met
- 10 Things I Did Much Later Than Most People
also check out his other math proofs... def a smart cookie 🍪
Nov 9, 2023
really messes with my head. really obsessed with it. can’t wait to be a practicing physicist and mathematician. Its real and it isn’t real but it is totally real.
I am personally a huge fan of leibniz! he (debated) invented calculus. the invention of calculus (calculus not having been explained/not existing) is not something I can process. It not ’existing’ and then ‘existing’ the next day. It’s also really fun.
Sep 18, 2024
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listening to good luck babe for the first time was a spiritual experience for me.
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