Mathematics and Spiritual Interpretation: A Bridge to Genuine Interdisciplinarity

This article is a spiritual interpretation of Leonhard Euler's famous equation linking the most important entities in mathematics: e (the base of natural logarithms), π (the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle), i (√-1),1 , and 0. The equation itself (eπi+1 = 0>) can be un...

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Main Author: Glasberg, Ronald (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2003
In: Zygon
Year: 2003, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 277-294
Further subjects:B transcendental numbers
B Leonhard Euler
B Spirituality
B Mathematics
B Hermeneutics
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