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  2. From: burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re:  Haughty quote
  5. Message-ID: <101658@netnews.upenn.edu>
  6. Date: 11 Dec 92 19:06:32 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec9.183542.4613@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <11DEC199212101828@mary.fordham.edu>
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  14. In article <11DEC199212101828@mary.fordham.edu> nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim) writes:
  15. >I was told by my high school calculus teacher many years ago that 
  16. >Leonard Euler said, "A mathematician is someone to whom e^{i*\pi}=-1
  17. >is just as obvious as 2+2=4 is to you."  But I have not seen this 
  18. >in print anywhere.  
  19.  
  20. That sentence about the integral from -oo to +oo of e^(-x^2), followed by
  21. "Liouville was a mathematician." appears, as I vaguely recall, in Spivak's
  22. "Calculus on Manifolds" at the end of the problem section in one of the
  23. chapters.
  24.                                             
  25. >Leonard J. Nissim  (nissim@mary.fordham.edu)   
  26.  
  27. Alex Burshteyn (burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)
  28.