The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sun flower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number "e". In this informal history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for the reader with only a modest background in mathematics and illuminates a golde era in the age of science.
- ISBN10 0691058547
- ISBN13 9780691058542
- Publish Date 24 May 1998 (first published 4 May 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 248
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5342.html