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Euler Identity & Cotes Identity

  • Writer: SAIKAT MAITY
    SAIKAT MAITY
  • Aug 6, 2020
  • 1 min read

A near-miss in math: Roger Cotes in 1716, while investigating the surface area of an ellipsoid, found the following expression: log(cosφ + isinφ) = iφ. Had he exponentiated that formula and today Euler's Identity could be known as Cotes Identity.

 
 
 

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