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RE: Ask a Mathematician - therapy for the fear of math or just answers to questions that bug you!

in #mathematics8 years ago

What do you mean "a use"? It is an identity. It has a conceptual beauty as it combines arithmetic, complex numbers, trigonometry and logarithms into one framework.

The general formula e^iz = cosz +isinz is used as the starting point to solve many differential equations.