{"id":1141,"date":"2006-08-01T17:59:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T21:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2006-08-01T17:59:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T21:59:02","slug":"i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2006\/08\/i.php\">i : the Imaginary Number<\/a>, I learned this (a.k.a. Euler's Formula):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman,Times\" size=+1>e<sup>i&pi;<\/sup> = -1<\/font>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like the author of the linked article, I think it is pretty interesting that e, <i>i<\/i> and pi are linked that closely. There's a proof <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/EulerFormula.html\">here<\/a>, which includes this bit:<\/p>\n<ul>\nGauss is reported to have commented that if this formula was not immediately obvious, the reader would never be a first-class mathematician.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obvious? I don't know if I could puzzle my way through it in a day. I wish I was better with math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was reading i : the Imaginary Number, I learned this (a.k.a. Euler's Formula): ei&pi; = -1 Like the author of the linked article, I think it is pretty interesting that e, i and pi are linked that closely. There's a proof here, which includes this bit: Gauss is reported to have commented that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}