Math’s Hidden Beauty [Tattoo]

Nicholas writes: “I found your tattoo emporium a while ago and found it so fascinating I wanted one for myself. I wanted to get a UV tattoo for the ability to conceal and the added effect with the black light, of course. I find Euler’s formula to be one of the most magnificent discoveries in mathematics and I wanted to use it in my tattoo. I came up with e^(i pi/2) because its just i. I thought it a great idea then to get an invisible tattoo as the number i.”

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January 17th, 2009 1:17 PM by Carl Zimmer in Science Tattoo Emporium | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Math’s Hidden Beauty [Tattoo]”

1. Michelle Says:
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am

Wow. That’s uncomfortably close to my tattoo. I have e^(i*pi) because my mother always referred to me as the “negative one.”

Still, I like the invisible i!
2. Owlmirror Says:
January 25th, 2009 at 12:55 am

(HTML geekery)(which I am not sure will entirely work)

e^iπ

e^iπ½

Pity there’s no π/2 entity.
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