Euler’s pioneering equation: ‘the most beautiful theorem in mathematics’ - Robin Wilson
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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, it has also featured in a criminal court case and on a postage stamp, and has appeared twice in The Simpsons. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneering?

Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.

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Date: 28 February 2018, 17:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2018)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road
Speaker: Robin Wilson (The Open University)
Organising department: Mathematical Institute
Organiser: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
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Booking email: external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk
Cost: n/a
Audience: Public
Editor: Dyrol Lumbard