Mathematics Can Calm the Mind

Euler’s Identity explained and the hope of order within chaos.

By: Cory Doctorow from London, UK, not my own body as I would have preferred. We were offered a test grade replacement if we got a physics tattoo my sophomore year of college. Verdict from my physics prof was that this is a math tattoo and therefore, not eligible.

Euler’s Equation gives me hope.

When I first saw it, it was written on a white board of my Calculus II class by a man I knew had written a lot of love letters in his life. He stepped back from the board after making quite the dramatically understated gesture, he pointed at it with his Expo marker and said,