Re:Douglas Hofstadter has a new book
by mike_sol on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @01:20PM
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> I don't think there's any useful way in which Euler's identity is a 'metaphor' for anything.
Euler's Identity isn't itself the metaphor, it's the equation we use to teach and understand it that is metaphorical. The letters themselves only mean "Euler's Identity" when imbued with the extra meanings that come from the symbolic framework of mathematics.
Euler's Identity isn't itself the metaphor, it's the equation we use to teach and understand it that is metaphorical. The letters themselves only mean "Euler's Identity" when imbued with the extra meanings that come from the symbolic framework of mathematics.