Yikes, 90 minutes. Napping sounds like a good plan. Best of luck ita. May they find nothing but spicy brains.

::snuggles with Vortex and tries not to count on her fingers::

eπi=-1

I'm not even going to ask what makes that pretty.

MRI~ma, ita! And fingers crossed for really good results.

I'm not even going to ask what makes that pretty.

It's the whole, "No way! Really!?" aspect of it.

In my mind, pi has to do with circles, geometry, trig, etc. e has to do with logarithms, calculus and what-not, and i of course is imaginary. They seem like unmixy things.

When I saw Proof on Broadway, I was one of about three people who laughed at the line "We have a song called i where we just stand there on stage for three minutes not playing."

I've got a few minutes to kill - anyone have a link to the proof? What is that equation called, anyway?

When I saw Proof on Broadway, I was one of about three people who laughed at the line "We have a song called i where we just stand there on stage for three minutes not playing."

Heh.

Guess I would have laughed too.

Hey! It's Abby!

Who I still don't think of as a lurker, as I know she's real, and as her occasional postings date back to WX at least.

(I still say that what Cybervixen said was true, that once you delurk, you're pretty much lurkless. This is how I justify not thinking of myself as a lurker despite a greatly reduced posting schedule.)

I'm not even going to ask what makes that pretty.

e lives over there, with the logarithms, naturally, and π is over there with the geometry (they're both irrational and don't play well with others), and -1, well, it's right here with the everyday numbers. Don't even ask where i lives -- it's complex.

Yet? Together? They all make each other. As a maths student, there was absolutely no reason to expect these to be the pieces in the jigsaw puzzle, but working through that proof is like having a jigsaw puzzle that's solving itself and dragging you along with it and bam! Suddenly the pieces snap together and you know the picture for the first time.

You might not understand the picture, but it sure is purty,

tommy, it's Euler's Identity (or according to Feynman, "The most remarkable formula in mathematics").

Timelies all!

I did well in pretty much all the math classes I took.(which was through third semester calculus in college) Math just didn't interest me enough to go farther. Not to mention that my schedule was full of major-related classes.(Odd fact: I was one class away from a Chem minor. Unfortunately, that class was PChem. I didn't want to go near it)