Comments on: Interesting facts about Euler http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2009/11/17/interesting-facts-about-euler/ Ramblings of a Christian Mathematician and Bioinformaticist Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:37:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joaquin Barroso http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2009/11/17/interesting-facts-about-euler/comment-page-1/#comment-147864 Joaquin Barroso Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:51:30 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2009/11/17/interesting-facts-about-euler/#comment-147864 I remember when I was in High School and our math teacher would tell us from time to time stories from mathematicians (Galois and his dueling, Euler in the tower, the guy with the quaternions whose name I cant remember), he introduced us to Euler's equation e^i.pi =-1 and made a small talk about the 'beauty' (if you allow the use of the term) of this equation on how it involved numbers that were critical in the development of mathematics: From negative numbers invented to represent debts, pi Pitagoras' discovery, and i which was invented as a solution to sqrt(-1) BTW quantum mechanics would have never been developed had it not been for i, or so I heard once. Definitely Euler is one of those figures to be remembered, honored and above all admired. Greetings from a Mexican in Transylvania I remember when I was in High School and our math teacher would tell us from time to time stories from mathematicians (Galois and his dueling, Euler in the tower, the guy with the quaternions whose name I cant remember), he introduced us to Euler’s equation e^i.pi =-1 and made a small talk about the ‘beauty’ (if you allow the use of the term) of this equation on how it involved numbers that were critical in the development of mathematics: From negative numbers invented to represent debts, pi Pitagoras’ discovery, and i which was invented as a solution to sqrt(-1) BTW quantum mechanics would have never been developed had it not been for i, or so I heard once.

Definitely Euler is one of those figures to be remembered, honored and above all admired.

Greetings from a Mexican in Transylvania

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