April 29, 2004

We cannot understand it

Euler's famous formula
As Benjamin Peirce said, "Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth."

Here's my question: does Euler's fundamental fact regarding complex numbers change depending on gravity? ;)

Posted by Jeffrey at April 29, 2004 9:41 PM
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