What is the deepest statement that you’ve ever read? For me:
e^(pi*i)+1=0 - I have no idea what it means, and I’m pretty sure no one else does, either, but it is the most profound thing that I have ever seen in my life.

Euler's Identity, often called the most beautiful equation in mathematics.

Raise the irrational number e to the imaginary power πi, and you get exactly -1. That shouldn't make sense, but it does, and it reveals deep structure beneath reality.

Good stuff, OP.

>>17817353 (OP)
wait until you see the Avatar

>>17817849
The last of the airbenders or James Cameron?

in every alien civilization one of their beings discovered Euler's constant, likely a naturally evolved being and one in a period of high literacy shortly before the industrial revolution, this is ours

>>17818007
James Cameron: The Last of the Arsebenders

>>17817353 (OP)
I prefer the picrel form of the identity because it feels more absurd and is accepted by many fancy calculators, though technically the expression could have multiple solutions, so asserting equality requires choosing only the "principal" solution, a bit like how 4^(1/2) could be 2 or -2, but when we say sqrt(4) we just mean 2.

>>17817353 (OP)
>I have no idea what it means
Then you cannot claim it is the deepest statement.

>>17817771
Imaginary exponents are what don't make sense

>>17817353 (OP)
I'd much rather have a thread about the Abu Ghraib torture scandal than whatever schizo nonsense this thread is babbling about.

>>17818104
Imagine explaining picrel to someone 500 years ago when even mathematicians were still uncomfortable with negative numbers. "So yeah, if you divide one by one less than nothing raised to the power of the square root of one less than nothing and then round down, that's twenty-three."

>>17818122
Yes I can. Think about that.

>>17818189
math can be really cool sometimes. I wish it came easier to me so I could have fun and enjoy it, but I guess I'm just too much of a based retard

Not the deepest, but I like this quote I came across not too long ago.
"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for." — Douglas Adams

>>17818007
none of this bullshit. you'll know when you'll find Him

>>17818168
>imaginary
how little you know

>>17818984
I know more than you.

>>17817353 (OP)
it "meaning" is that e raised to a complex power is a sinusoidal function, which turns out to be very useful
its beautiful because it combines all the constants that are either extremely useful (e, pi) or fundamental (i, 1, 0), as well as the fundamental arithmetic operations (addition multiplication and exponentiation) in a single equation

My therapist once asked me "What does success look like to you?"
I'm still pondering the answer.

>>17817353 (OP)
I swear, she has turbo dyke face.

>>17820754
>I became interested in this problem in my junior high school year (1913-14) at Philo, Illinois. My geometry teacher suggested it. I turned it over in my mind and thought of it many times.

>>17820754
The montage in The Incredibles where Life's Incredible Again is playing