e to the pi i
Two friends find a meteorite engraved with Euler's identity and are awed by its beauty and mysterious origin.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-12-18-e-to-the-pi-i/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Whoa! You see that?" B: "Let's check it out!"
[A meteorite in a crater, inscribed e^(πi) + 1 = 0]
A: "It's so beautiful..." B: "Where did it come from?"
A: "A place called 'complex analysis.'" B: "I want to go there."