e^i*pi + 1 = 0
"Like a Shakespearean-sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence."
-- Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin, 'A Beautiful Equation', 2002
... First, the letter "e" represents an irrational number that begins 2.71828... It governs the rate of exponential growth.
Next, "i" represents the so-called "imaginary number": the square root of negative 1.
Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is one of the best-loved and most interesting numbers in math.
Putting it all together, the constant "e" raised to the power of the imaginary "i" multiplied by pi equals -1. And, as seen in Euler's equation, adding 1 to that gives 0. It seems almost unbelievable that all these strange numbers — and even one that isn't real — would combine so simply. But it's a PROVEN-FACT.
... When my EX-girlfriend EXPLAINED this REASONING to me, I sprouted a MASSIVE ERECTION.
(... How's THAT for the "essence of LOVE"?!)
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