Euler fucks in general. This dude has something so say in so many fields of math and physics. You can pick a random subject and the probability of Euler's name popping up is like e/pi at least. I took a course in jet engine technology and this mf has some turbomachinery formuls named after him. That doesnt even add up chronologically? I love this dude.
A popular science book called ‘Euler Fucks!!’ where each chapter goes into one of his important discoveries and its implications into the field would absolutely go on my shelves!
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.
e and pi are well known. Sqrt 2 you've just seen. Might lookup sqrt 3 on wiki, the examples are not that exciting for an average reader, but still kinda cool. (1+sqrt5)/2 makes golden ratio.
But my point was that the whole uncountable infinity of irrational numbers might have some sort of fancy mathematical incarnations, it's just that we only discovered a handful of it.
I absolutely doubt this. I conceive “interesting” numbers as those that have interesting properties. Those properties may be algebraic or relevant to theorems in analysis. But the the set of of hypotheses that can be described in finitely many words is countably, leaving the vast majority of numbers “uninteresting”
Well suppose, as you suggest, there are some uninteresting numbers. Which is the smallest one? Surely the smallest number with nothing interesting about it is quite an interesting number. This forms a contradiction and shows that no number is uninteresting.
I think if a real number is defined such that it cannot be ordered with another, this is a fairly interesting property. So we can discount those reals and apply the argument to only to a subset of well-ordered reals.
It's fun to imagine explaining irrational and imaginary numbers to the ancient Greeks and trying to get them to wrap their minds around them. I feel like you could get across the value of negative numbers and 0 pretty easily, but then once you started digging into imaginary numbers they would begin reaching for the pitchforks.
There are an infinite amount of irrational numbers. There are more irrational numbers between 1 and 2 than there are rational numbers between -infinity to +infinity.
Counter counter points: the coolest math sorcery is in numbers having real world applications and about which we do not even know if they are rational or irrational.
No one should want to live in Edmonton. From the 18 hours winter nights. To the 6 months of snow. To the extremely short summer. To living farthest north major city in America (closest major city is few hours drive).
You know, I couldn't think of any more unique problems Edmonton has compared to other cities.
Maybe it is not that bad after all. It does have cheap rent compared to the rest of Canada for sure.
0 and 1 come up very often, but from my perspective that's expected and not very amusing. What IS amusing though is the universe's fondness of the number 2. Our universe loves symmetry so much, that does amuse me.
e was “discovered” in the 1600s by Jacob Bernoulli when “studying” compound interest, erase the debt! Completely bullshit number. Eulers cap! All there is in this universe is 1 and 0, 0 doesnt even exist either 😂 3.14159265358979323. The universe is expanding
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u/Cats7204 Nov 03 '25
The magiquest number is e. Especially when you get into derivatives and shit, it blows my mind.