• an-salad
    38
    e^(pi(i))+1=0

    I have no idea what it means

    Yet it is the most profound thing that I have ever seen in my life
  • Metaphysician Undercover
    14.2k


    Anything which includes pi is fundamentally irrational, so I don't know why you would think it to be profound.
  • alleybear
    39
    I did a little research and it turns out this is considered an example of mathematical beauty. It is called Euler's identity and is valued as a connection between the most fundamental numbers in mathematics expressed within it.
    It has three arithmetic operations appearing once each (addition, multiplication and exponentiation), and
    involves five fundamental mathematical constants (additive identity, multiplicative identity, pi, Euler's number [e], and imaginary numbers). Some mathematicians call it the most famous formula in mathematics.
    Good first attempt.

    P.S. it's used to prove that pi is transcendental (I know, esoteric math, beyond algebra and calculus).
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