Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Jon MW]

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Maths is a beautiful thing.

If it's done right it is

"... Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”-- G. H. Hardy

If you Google beautiful formula you find:

Euler's identity 

From wikipedia:

After proving Euler's identity during a lecture, Benjamin Peirce, a noted American 19th century philosopher/mathematician and a professor at Harvard University, stated that "It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth."

so why didn't he just say еⁱ ∏ = -1 and save a bit of ink?

Work that back for me, please!

Why would e^iπ be the same as e^π?

forums don't do mathematical notation very well

whatever +1 =0 is the same as whatever = -1?

zero's are prettier

[Tal]

I would also imagine that it makes it easier to translate, as you have all the relevant information on one side of the equation. 

[Jon MW]

It's connected with how you derive it and prove it, the rough and dirty applied mathematicians (who might as well be called engineers or physicists) might have a reason for liking it that way - but for pure maths it's mainly because it looks more elegant (the 'mainly' is imo other pure mathematicians might disagree - the traitors)

[Machka]

...
Maths is a beautiful thing.

If it's done right it is

"... Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”-- G. H. Hardy

If you Google beautiful formula you find:

Euler's identity 

From wikipedia:

After proving Euler's identity during a lecture, Benjamin Peirce, a noted American 19th century philosopher/mathematician and a professor at Harvard University, stated that "It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth."

so why didn't he just say еⁱ ∏ = -1 and save a bit of ink?

Because there is more beauty in using 5 fundamental constants than 4?

[Jon MW]

...
Maths is a beautiful thing.

If it's done right it is

"... Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”-- G. H. Hardy

If you Google beautiful formula you find:

Euler's identity 

From wikipedia:

After proving Euler's identity during a lecture, Benjamin Peirce, a noted American 19th century philosopher/mathematician and a professor at Harvard University, stated that "It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth."

so why didn't he just say еⁱ ∏ = -1 and save a bit of ink?

Because there is more beauty in using 5 fundamental constants than 4?

 

and in other equations having the =0 on the RHS usually makes them look better even if they can't quite achieve the same standard as this one

[RED-DOG]

This is Penny. Hunting terrier extraordinaire. (Now retired).

Her pedigree is uncertain, but her CV is impeccable. Her exploits are legendary.

She belongs to my son-in-law. He's away on Holiday so I'm looking after her for a couple of weeks. it's a doddle of a job, she's an absolute sweetheart. (unless you happen to be a rat or a rabbit)

Click to see full-size image.

[RED-DOG]

That post was supposed to be on my diary. 

[Tal]

Been a lot of that recently. At least your picture was lovely.

[tikay]

That post was supposed to be on my diary. 

Ha, I eventually worked that out after a period of musing.

Looks a lovely bitch though.

[Karabiner]

This is Penny. Hunting terrier extraordinaire. (Now retired).

Her pedigree is uncertain, but her CV is impeccable. Her exploits are legendary.

She belongs to my son-in-law. He's away on Holiday so I'm looking after her for a couple of weeks. it's a doddle of a job, she's an absolute sweetheart. (unless you happen to be a rat or a rabbit)

Click to see full-size image.

How is she with moles?

[doubleup]

That post was supposed to be on my diary. 

Ha, I eventually worked that out after a period of musing.

Looks a lovely bitch though.

you should really have posted that in his diary

[doubleup]

Now you've got the hang of it

[luther101]

Not content with one member of the Kendall Klan playing in the LooTown card room, we had his younger bruvver Teejay running riot in the DC game last night    .......

[tikay]

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