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15 April 2007

Happy Birthday, Mr. Euler

Leonhard Euler would’ve been 300 years old today. Euler was responsible for a lot of the math we learned in high school, as discussed in this NPR interview. He’s also the one who came up with Euler’s Identity, which math geeks all around say is the most beautiful equation they’ve ever seen:

Even the famed physicist [...]

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