There is a familiar formula—perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas—developed by Euler from a discovery of De Moivre: eiπ + 1 = 0. ...It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.

— Edward Kasner and James R. Newman, Mathematics and the Imagination (1940)

From Kasner and Newman's 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.

Topics: mathematics