"Euler wrote... in 1748 his Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum, which was intended to serve as an introduction to pure analytical mathematics. ...He ...shewed that the trigonometrical and exponential functions were connected by the relation \cos\theta + i\sin\theta = e^{i\theta}."
January 1, 1970
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