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Euler and the Exponential Function
Euler was working in this period just after people were really kind of understanding what calculus was all about. He spent a lot of his time as the court mathematician in Russia. Euler played around with these infinite series relating to E and to the exponential function. So it turns out, for example, that you can write E as an infinite series.