Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.4 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!authorplaceholder From: carr@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Euler's(?) formula Message-ID: <28200055@uiucdcs> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 13:20:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.28200055 Posted: Tue Jul 2 13:20:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 00:39:54 EDT References: <1832@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:ut-ngp.UTEXAS:-183200:uiucdcs:28200055:000:500 Nf-From: uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA!carr Jul 2 12:20:00 1985 /* Written 5:35 pm Jun 26, 1985 by wyant@apollo.uucp in uiucdcs:net.math */ For an interesting and entertaining discussion on Euler's formula, read the book "Proofs and Refutations" by Imre Latkos. It's a dialog on the process of mathematical discovery using the validity of Euler's formula as its starting point. Geoff Wyant -- Geoff Wyant UUCP: ...{yale,uw-beaver,decvax!wanginst}!apollo!wyant /* End of text from uiucdcs:net.math */ That should be Lakatos, not Latkos.