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My undergrad major was math. What baffled me most was the significance of ‘e’, the base for natural logarithms. It had near magical properties but I had no grasp of why. This book is a history of the discovery of the number 2.71828… and the development of the understanding of its place in math. It is written at about the level of an undergrad course but uses history to motivate the discussion.
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Math is hard. It took roughly 150 years after the invention of logarithms to recognize that there was a “natural” or I would say an optimal base. It will take me at least two readings to digest this material.
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