April , 2007
The genius of Euler
If you are a nerd, you probably know why, this year, it's cool to celebrate April 15 in Basel town of Switzerland. Not that if you are not a nerd, you do not celebrate the birth of mathematician Leonhard Euler in Switzerland, 300 years ago. Euler according to some is the Mozart of mathematics. Another group might just think he's the Elvis. So what did Euler do? It's the dumbest question to ask. It's almost like asking so what did Elvis do/or say Mozart did or say what did Einstein do or what does Naomi Campbell do? Opinion polls across the world on Physics' greatest equation ranks Einstein's e=mc2 to be the number 1 on the charts. Always. In Mathematics, it's Euler's beautiful equation, which is always either number 1 or number 2. Please google his equation. According to some his equation reaches down to the very depth of our....




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Arijit Sen reports from Northeast India. He was at NDTV before joining CNN-IBN in 2005. Arijit began journalism in December 1999 with The Edit page of The Pioneer in New Delhi. A 2010/11 Gerda Henkel Fellow at Oxford University, Arijit received the News Television Award in 2010. He was given the 2008-09 Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism award for his reporting from Northeast India. Arijit did his Masters in Economics from Calcutta University.



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