A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics

by David Stipp

Book Overview

An award-winning science writer introduces us to mathematics using the extraordinary equation that unites five of mathematics' most important numbers

Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry." This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465093779
• ISBN13: 9780465093779
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"