I was hoping that too, but I knew it would be about Euler's identity, since to people with only incidental exposure to the concepts that underly it it seems (justifiably) inscrutable and mysterious, thus its general popularity. It's funny that cultivating the mathematician's refusal to assign meaning to results can completely change which results you find fascinating.
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I was hoping that too, but I knew it would be about Euler's identity, since to people with only incidental exposure to the concepts that underly it it seems (justifiably) inscrutable and mysterious, thus its general popularity. It's funny that cultivating the mathematician's refusal to assign meaning to results can completely change which results you find fascinating.