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Do you find some mathematical activities useless?
04-05-2018, 06:15 PM
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RE: Do you find some mathematical activities useless?
(04-05-2018 05:55 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  
(04-05-2018 04:51 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  To me, "e^(i*pi)=-1" is a striking example of beauty in mathematics.

This is an excellent example of how human ingenuity invented complex numbers to link two seemingly unrelated natural constants. Almost as amazingly incredible as E=mc^2 (which is rather physics than mathematics of course). But as you write, "beauty" is something different for everybody.

People did not invent Complex numbers, they were "discovered"...
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RE: Do you find some mathematical activities useless? - zeno333 - 04-05-2018 06:15 PM



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