Talk:Eulers number

In The Book on Numbers by John Conway and Richard Guy the number e is persistently called Napier's number. I know that John Napier has more or less discovered logarithms, but is this really the correct name? --JanHidders

e is named after Euler. Whether that is correct or not. "Napier's number" gets very few google hits; compare [1] and [2].--MarSch 30 June 2005 16:13 (UTC)

Delete this discussion

e is a number, a fundamental object of mathematics. Each section of the article should be accessible to the widest, curious, audience possible. The nature of curiosity of this sort is not capricious. Hilbert's gravestone says it even better: "We can know. We will know." Mathematics is a word coined by Pythagorus meaning 'that which is learned' (according to The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir Aczel p.14.)

Specifically in my (now missing) case, Kronecker in is book On the Concept of Number attempted to banish from math what he regarded as unnecessary levels of abstraction, "anything... that could not be derived from integers is a finite number of steps" (according to John Derbyshire in Prime Obsession p. 185.) While recalling Kurt Gödel's proof that proof theory is deniable, and therefore that all of math is unprovable, I ask simply to play the game that it is, and to add to it.

Thus I wish to continue the now missing discussion I started concerning the short section Stochastic representations please. Where is the archive for the last talk page? Removing it was a careless mistake. The purpose of my missing discussion was to expand the article's audience. — CpiralCpiral 21:27, 12 November 2011 (UTC)