Question: Is there anything that Euler didn't do? (other than not discover calculus)
Comment: I think that this is pretty amazing, the type of formulas and notations that he impressed upon the world of mathematics. Since we all use these notations in math class, I think Euler is a pretty relevant person. I was especially surprised by the fact that e raised to the power of i times pi equals -1, since this seems to defy the logic of an imaginary number. I don't know what the specific ramifications of this equation are, but they seem to suggest that i is a number that has a comprehensible value (other than sqrt(-1)). All this and 13 children, too! I am surprised that anybody could get anything done with 13 kids running around, even if they were very-well behaved. I was a little disappointed, however, when I read that the bridges of Konigsberg problem really was unsolvable.
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