"There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas — developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0. \,\! It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician."
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Edward Kasner and James R. Newman, in Mathematics and the Imagination (1940)
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