Euler’s Identity: the Most Beautiful Equation in Mathematics

A recent entry in the visitor’s book of the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove, Dublin perplexed the Friends of Joyce’s Tower, the volunteers who run the museum. The entry, reproduced as the boxed equation in the photograph, seemed as impenetrable as a passage of Finnegans Wake and quite beyond decryption. When invited to … Continue reading Euler’s Identity: the Most Beautiful Equation in…