E (Euler's Number) - Numberphile
Free trial at The Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/tKWt306Gg7a Dr James Grime discusses "e" - the famed Euler's Number. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ A bit extra from...
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[James]: We're gonna talk about e!The big, famous constant, e! Okay, it's one of the famous mathematical constants,One of the most important, goes along with pi, and I don't know, golden ratio, and square root of two,Constants in maths that are the most important constants, and e is one of those constants.So e is an irrational number, and it's equal to... 2.718281828, something, something, ...The problem with e, is it's not defined by geometry.Now pi, is a something that is defined by geometry, right, it's the ratio of a circle's circumference and it's diameter.And it's something the ancient Greeks knew about. And a lot of mathematical constants go back to the ancient Greeks,but e is different. e ...
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[James]: We're gonna talk about e!The big, famous constant, e! Okay, it's one of the famous mathematical constants,One of the most important, goes along with pi, and I don't know, golden ratio, and square root of two,Constants in maths that are the most important constants, and e is one of those constants.So e is an irrational number, and it's equal to... 2.718281828, something, something, ...The problem with e, is it's not defined by geometry.Now pi, is a something that is defined by geometry, right, it's the ratio of a circle's circumference and it's diameter.And it's something the ancient Greeks knew about. And a lot of mathematical constants go back to the ancient Greeks,but e is different. e ...
