Thursday 20 November 2014

The Baffling and Beautiful Wormhole Between Branches of Math

The Baffling and Beautiful Wormhole Between Branches of Math

Onformative Math Geeks extol its beauty, even finding in it hints of a mysterious connectedness in the universe. It’s on tank tops and coffee mugs. Aliens, apparently, carve it into crop circles (in 8-bit binary code). It’s appeared on The Simpsons. Twice. What’s the deal with Euler’s identity? Basically, it’s an equation about numbers—specifically, those […]


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