First attempt at poetry

an-salad September 06, 2025 at 21:01 250 views 2 comments
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

Comments (2)

Metaphysician Undercover September 07, 2025 at 01:19 #1011735
Reply to an-salad

Anything which includes pi is fundamentally irrational, so I don't know why you would think it to be profound.
alleybear September 19, 2025 at 01:22 #1013853
Reply to an-salad 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).