{"id":1831,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1831"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:30:17","slug":"eulers-identity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/e-poems\/eulers-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Euler\\&#8217;s Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Euler&#8217;s Identity<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 18, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\ne to the \u03c0 i equals minus one<br \/>\nIs the strangest thing in maths since maths begun<br \/>\nIf you slightly rearrange it, to include the number nought<br \/>\nYou have all the natural numbers, that all students should be taught<br \/>\nEuler wrote the formula, but it was known before his time<br \/>\nBut I don\u2019t know who discovered it, so they\u2019re not in my rhyme<br \/>\nI cannot understand it, and I know no-one who can<br \/>\nBut it seems it\u2019s at the bottom of the universe\u2019s plan<br \/>\nIt is proved from complex analysis, which is not too hard to do<br \/>\nBut a detailed explanation will have to come from you<br \/>\nMany number theorists, and many engineers<br \/>\nDo complex analyses \u2019til they\u2019re coming out their ears.<br \/>\nBut for me its not a daily tool, just a curious thing to find<br \/>\nAnd a lovely piece of theory that is pleasing to my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euler&#8217;s Identity by cricketjeff on August 18, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved e to the \u03c0 i equals minus one Is the strangest thing in maths since maths begun If you slightly rearrange it, to include the number nought You have all the natural numbers, that all students should be taught Euler wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9700,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9677,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1831\/revisions\/9677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}