Did 18th century mathematician point to the existence of G-d?

Did 18th century mathematician point to the existence of G-d?

Euler Equation

Tomorrow, April 15th marks the 307th anniversary of the birth of the great Swiss mathematician, Leonhard Euler. He is considered the greatest mathematician of his day and the forth greatest of all time.

His Euler equation, eip+1 = 0 may be the strangest discovery ever, since it represents an equation that relates five of the most fundamental constants in mathematics. With other laws of mathematics or physics, such as Newton’s laws, they are explainable since we would not be here in the first place, had they not taken the form that they did.

But Euler’s equation is different. There’s no obvious, inherent reason that these five fundamental constants, pi (ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle), e (base of the natural logarithm), I (square root of –1) 1 (multiplicative identity) and 0 (additive identity) should relate to one another in one equation and no mathematician nor scientist has ever come up with a reason for them to do so.

 Carl Sagan’s baloney test is a way of demonstrating the folly of most extraordinary claims. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Carl opined and he was right. To me, Euler’s equation passes the Sagan Baloney Test. By the way, Euler made so many other contributions, but this is surely the strangest!

Happy birthday Leonhard and thank you. Uber-strange coincidence or pre-planned? You decide!