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| location | San Mateo, CA | |
| age | 40 | |
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Sr. statistician at Complete Genomics, Inc., Mountain View, CA.
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Dec 6 |
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“Fun” question: anyone know why $e$ (Euler's Number) was chosen for wave functions? Thanks for the "double edit"! The comment regarding the solution for a drum and the connection between ALL complex exponentials and circles is great! I guess my problem was that I was intuitively seeing what you wrote elegantly & explicitly, but not recognizing that the real "magic" is in recognizing that complex exponentials are "magically circular". That's easier for me to get my head around, since it is simply the easiest / simplest way to write a circle as a function: i^x is itself circular, where x is any real number. Thanks so much!! |
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Dec 4 |
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“Fun” question: anyone know why $e$ (Euler's Number) was chosen for wave functions? Thanks to whomever made all of the equations look prettier! Now I know how to add equations properly in this forum. |
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Dec 4 |
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“Fun” question: anyone know why $e$ (Euler's Number) was chosen for wave functions? Hi, yes, I think you are correct. But my question was more fundamental as to WHY this is the case? No definitions of e that I have run across ever use trigonometry to define the number. So how does it "magically" also have this incredibly useful trigonometric property? Doesn't that seem downright crazy to anyone else? |
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