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Leonhard Euler\u00a0(1707\u00a0\u2013 1783), a native of my beloved Switzerland, is widely considered to have been the foremost mathematician of the eighteenth century.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Euler\u2019s identity or Euler\u2019s equation, shown above, has been identified in at least one survey of\u00a0mathematicians as the most beautiful of all equations, because of the simple elegance of the way in which it relates the constants\u00a0e<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(for Euler\u2019s number, the base of natural logarithms), i<\/em> (the imaginary unit, which satisfies the equation i<\/i><\/span>2<\/sup>\u00a0= \u22121) and \u00a0\u03c0<\/span>\u00a0(the ratio\u00a0of the circumference of a circle\u00a0to its diameter).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAmong the mechanistic suppositions of previous generations was the idea that beauty is an inner attitude of the beholder rather than a property of the objective world. \u00a0The awareness that the universe is stunningly beautiful wherever we turn our eye is now so much a conviction of our most productive scientists that objective grandeur is considered a warrant of truth.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0(Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet<\/em> [San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999], 38-39.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n An interesting thought, that.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Leonhard Euler\u00a0(1707\u00a0\u2013 1783), a native of my beloved Switzerland, is widely considered to have been the foremost mathematician of the eighteenth century. \u00a0 Euler\u2019s identity or Euler\u2019s equation, shown above, has been identified in at least one survey of\u00a0mathematicians as the most beautiful of all equations, because of the simple elegance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n