Euler's Pioneering Equation
The most beautiful theorem in mathematics
In 1988 The Mathematical Intelligencer, a quarterly mathematics journal, carried out a poll to find the most beautiful theorem in mathematics. Twenty-four theorems were listed and readers were invited to award each a 'score for beauty'. While there were many worthy competitors, the winner was 'Euler's equation'. In 2004 Physics World carried out a similar poll of 'greatest equations', and found that among physicists Euler's mathematical result camesecond only to Maxwell's equations. The Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin reflected the feelings of many in describing it as like a Shakespearian sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-251406-6
- EAN: 9780192514066
- Produktnummer: 25583132
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'005 KB
- Abbildungen: 88 black and white images
Über den Autor
Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited many books on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland, and also ongraph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice. Involved with the popularization of mathematics and its history, he has been awarded the Mathematical Association of America's Lester Ford award and Pólya prize for his 'outstanding expository writing', and the Ralph Stanton Awardfor outreach activities in combinatorics. He has Erdös Number 1.
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