e: The Story of a Number
Eli Maor • Princeton University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0691168487
e: The Story of a Number
Eli Maor • Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691168482 · ISBN-13: 978‑0691168487 · 2015
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This scholarly yet accessible narrative traces the history of the mathematical constant e, exploring its origins in the study of logarithms and compound interest. Eli Maor masterfully weaves together the lives of mathematicians like Bernoulli, Euler, and Napier to reveal the profound significance of this irrational number in calculus and beyond.
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