A thorough examination of the life and work of one of histories greatest mathematicians, the "Shakespeare of Numbers", Leonhard Euler: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/eulers-exponentials
Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time. He introduced the symbols e for the exponential number f for a function and i for √-1. He discovered what many mathematicians consider to be the most beautiful expression in mathematics, e ix = cosx + i sinx: a relation connecting the exponential and trigonometric functions. The exponential function and its inverse the logarithm function appear throughout mathematics and its applications, in physics, engineering, mathematical biology, chemistry and economics.
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