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Euler

The Secrets of Mathematics

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah

Archimedes, who famously jumped out of his bath shouting "Eureka", also 'invented' the number pi. Euler invented e and had fun with his formula e^(2 pi i) = 1. The world is full of important numbers waiting to be invented. Why not have a go?
The Secrets of Mathematics

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Euler’s pioneering equation: "the most beautiful theorem in mathematics" - Robin Wilson

Euler’s equation, the ‘most beautiful equation in mathematics’, startlingly connects the five most important constants in the subject: 1, 0, π, e and i. Central to both mathematics and physics. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneering?
A Mathematician's Holiday

Planning the tour - Abstraction and Graph Theory

How do you construct a tour travelling between a number of different cities, but never using the same transport method between two cities more than once?

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