![]() In my works, I naturally said nothing about my mistake to the reader, but only described the made track by which he may now reach the same heights without difficulty. I am fain to compare myself with a wanderer on the mountains who, not knowing the path, climbs slowly and painfully upwards and often has to retrace his steps because he can go no further-then, whether by taking thought or from luck, discovers a new track that leads him on a little till at length when he reaches the summit he finds to his shame that there is a royal road by which he might have ascended, had he only the wits to find the right approach to it. But the pride I might have held in my conclusions was perceptibly lessened by the fact that I knew that the solution of these problems had almost always come to me as the gradual generalization of favorable examples, by a series of fortunate conjectures, after many errors. “I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in vain. It's a beautiful concept." He paused before adding awkwardly, "Mathematically speaking.” Their marriage had a beginning and end, but every day of it was filled with forever. "Linking their names with Euler's infinity symbol means." He paused, considering how best to explain it. "No, this is much better than hearts," Tom exclaimed, his expression more earnest than any she'd seen from him before. At least I would understand what it means." "If it were my date stone," Cassandra said dryly, "I'd prefer the entwined hearts. "My guess is whoever chiseled that symbol was a mathematician or scientist." But a mathematician named Leonhard Euler found a way to treat infinity as if it were a finite number- and that allowed him to do things in mathematical analysis that had never been done before." Tom inclined his head toward the date stone. ![]() The problem with infinity, of course, is that you can't come up with a final answer when the numbers keep increasing forever. "Back in the eighteenth century, there were certain mathematical calculations no one could perform because they involved series of infinite numbers. "How is it different from the usual one?" Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. The numbers serve to demonstrate his incredible mental superpowersover his 76 years of life he published more than 800 works, totalling some 30,000 pages. Do you see how one line doesn't fully connect in the middle? That's Euler's infinity symbol. The Swiss Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 18 September 1783) was one of the greatest intellectual supermen in the history of mankind. "You think it was the symbol for infinity?" Unless." She paused as understanding dawned. “But that would mean it was originally a sideways number eight.
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