Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Mathematical Paradox

e = 2.71828... (Natural Log)
i = √-1 (Imaginary number)
π = 3.14159... (Pi)

e^iπ = -1 (^ is 'to the power of'.)

"It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth." - Benjamin Peirce, Harvard Mathematician

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