On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I think the fact that e^i*PI +1 = 0 surprises almost everyone when they >> first hear of it. > > > > This one is very interesting, but the fact that Pi was a poor choice for > the constant makes the equation considerably more ugly than it should be. > There is a growing movement to usurp the number Pi with the much more > important constant "2*Pi" (see: http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.html ). > If we call that new number tau (t). Then Euler's identity becomes: > e^(t * i) = 1 > There is no disputing matters of taste but I think the original equation is more beautiful because it shows a relationship between 5 of the most important numbers in all of mathematics. Your new equation only has 4 important numbers, it doesn't include zero, it has the multiplicative identity but not the additive identity. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
