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Episode #76 - History of Physics | Pythagoras & Euler

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The Origination of E

E is a number that pops up in very many places. It's fundamental to wave mechanics, right? Because the way that waves wave is following e,. The way it drops, it drops like when, again, this is very specific to quant o mechanics but again, i'm simply giving examples of e. This was something that pythagoras was a huge advocate of. He his beliefs stem from the idea that the entire universe comes down to numbers. And her's a quote from aristotle, which he lived a little bit after a pythagoran. They fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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