'The Most Beautiful Equation'
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far away than just skin deep. Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence
Keith Devlin, professor in mathematics from Stanford University
This equation is considered as the 'most beautiful equation in mathematics'. Primarily it is named after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.
It's most commonly known as Euler's Identity.
Mathematical Beauty:
Here we got two transcendental numbers π and e, which are never-ending.
e ≈ 2.718281828459045......
Ï€ ≈ 3.141592653589793......
and we got 'iota' which is completely absurd number i.e. an imaginary number. We try to combine these three 'things' by three of the basic arithmetic operations using only once (Addition, multiplication, and exponentiation) to get a real number '-1'.
