When is E-day?
Tuesday February 7thEvery year, E-Day (E-Day) commemorates the mathematical constant e, also known as Euler's Number. Euler, who died on Monday, it's also a day to learn more about the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.
You may remember seeing a little "e" in any advanced math or physics course. Euler's number is actually written in a letter, but it is actually called Euler's number. It has a numerical value of 2.718281818.2818. In a sequence that never repeats, the digits go on forever, like pi.
When trying to solve a formula or equation, Euler's number is usually used. Trying to figure out the rate of change is one example of how Euler's number is used... Euler's number helps determine whether exponential growth or decay is occurring in biology.. Population estimates are another example where Euler's number is commonly used.
Euler's number can also show how compound interest drives wealth to increase, which can also help determine how compound interest drives wealth to increase. This is exactly how mathematician Jacob Bernoulli used this number. Bernoulli, a 1638 scholar, was trying to figure out how much money would rise if it were compounded more than once a year..
Leonhard Euler began to work with this mathematical constant over 100 years ago in 1748. Euler was the first to show that it was an irrational number. "Exponents" was used by a narrator while working with the regular, but he used the letter "e" for the word "exponents." Nevertheless, the letter was still commonly associated with his name. Euler is also known for establishing the study of graph theory and topology. He is regarded as one of the world's top mathematicians.
