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juli 06, 2004
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John Allen Paulos: Now Featuring ‘e’: Pi and Phi Have Been in the Spotlight. What about e?
Specific numbers sometimes play a role in fiction. Witness the novel The Da Vinci Code, where the number is the Golden Ratio symbolized by the Greek letter phi, or the movie Pi, where the number is pi, of course.
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Reflecting on the use of these numbers in fiction, I wondered how a number that doesn't get as much attention as phi or pi might serve as a plot element in a mystery. The number does not have a Greek name, but must make do with a simple moniker — e. The base of the natural logarithm and truly one of the most important numbers in all of mathematics, e is approximately 2.71828182845904 … (approximately because its decimal expansion continues without repetition).
Och sedan kommer några förslag till filmplottar kring e .
Några noter:
Det finns en trevlig bok om e: e: The Story of a Number
MathWorld: e
The constant e and its computation
Robert Matthews och pi på himlavalvet: Pi in the sky (abstract för artikeln Nature 374 681-682, 1995).
Posted by hakank at juli 6, 2004 06:38 FM Posted to Matematik