Introduction
1: 1
2: 0
3: *p
4: e
5: i
6: e]iPi + 1 = 0
Further Reading
Index
Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the
Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College,
London, and a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He
is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of
Economics. A former President of the British Society for the
History of Mathematics, he has written and edited many books on the
history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland, and
also
on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four
Colours Suffice. Involved with the popularization of mathematics
and its history, he has been awarded the Mathematical Association
of America's
Lester Ford award and Pólya prize for his 'outstanding expository
writing', and the Ralph Stanton Award for outreach activities in
combinatorics. He has Erdös Number 1.
As ever, Robin Wilson's prose is witty, smooth, accurate and
effortlessly enjoyable and I recommend this book unreservedly as a
thoroughly good read
*Nick Lord, The Mathematical Gazette*
The distinguished mathematical historian Robin Wilson does his
usual masterful job of telling a wonderfully entertaining story
here about Euler's equation.
*John J. Watkins, MathSciNet*
Robin Wilson has produced a wonderful introduction to some of the
most fundamental ideas in mathematics. I would highly recommend
that you give a copy to any inquisitive young person you know.
*Andrew Hone, LMS Newsletter*
Excellent book... very readable... superb illustrations.
*Peter Ransom, Symmetry Plus*
The amount of information compressed in only 150 pages is amazing.
This doesn't mean that it is so dense that it becomes unreadable.
Quite the opposite. Because there are no long drawn-out detours,
the story becomes straightforward and understandable ... I liked
[this book] because it is quite broad, touching upon so many
mathematical subjects, mainly in their historical context, while
readability remains most enjoyable notwithstanding its
conciseness.
*Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society*
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